7 professional nature photographers (including 2 who live in West Seattle and 1 on Vashon Island), will be presenting 42 large framed fine art photographic prints in an exhibition themed "The National Parks in Washington State" to be presented 10/23/10 to 1/13/11 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle.

The 2 West Seattle photographers are Natalie Fobes and Dave Schiefelbein (also co-organizer and co-curator); the Vashon Island photographer is Mary Liz Austin.

The other photographers are residents of Seattle, Bellevue and Sammamish, WA.

NATALIE FOBES

A resident of West Seattle, Washington, and one of the most diverse photographers in the country, the Pulitzer prize finalist has shot assignments for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon and other major magazines.

Her images of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill are iconographic and she is known as the “Salmon Lady” due to her 10 year project photographing and writing about the salmon and the cultures of the salmon around the Pacific Rim. Her stock photography is in Getty, Corbis and National Geographic Image Collection. 

Natalie's first book, "Reaching Home: Pacific Salmon, Pacific People" spawned a traveling exhibit that opened at the Burke Museum and was then shown at three dozen museums and aquariums from California to Alaska. Natalie's work is included in many public, private and corporate collections and her fine art portraiture has won national recognition. 

In order to photograph her documentary stories, she has camped out in the winter in Siberia with the Chukchi reindeer herders and perched in a blind in the cloud forest of Guatemala. Natalie’s current documentary is on the impact of China’s one-child policy in that country and the United States.

She teaches in the acclaimed photography program at Seattle Central Community College and most recently gave a presentation for Canon on landscape photography. Las summer, the online education company Lynda.com chose Natalie for its "Creative Inspirations" series. The one-hour documentary can be seen at www.lynda.com.

Natalie is a founder and currently co-president of Blue Earth Alliance, a nationally-recognized non-profit dedicated to helping photographers shoot documentary stories about the environment, endangered cultures and social issues. (www.blueearth.org)

Website: www.fobesphoto.com
Contact: Natalie@fobesphoto.com
206-937-9375

Natalie Fobes is profiled as a "Creative Inspiration" in a one hour documentary by Lynda.com. View the introduction on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfDMBpEfLyM

or see the full one hour at www.lynda.com

http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=62349

DAVE SCHIEFELBEIN

A resident of West Seattle, Washington a fulltime professional nature and
commercial photographer Schiefelbein is co-organizer of this exhibition.

Dave’s photographs are marked by his eye for quiet beauty. His artistic representations of the natural world around us are guided by his life-long fascination and attraction to all aspects of the outdoors...from mountains and deep wilderness, to rural landscapes and backyard gardens.

Through his pictures he portrays nature not only in its glorious splendor, but also in its quiet moments and subtle details. Schiefelbein records with a camera what writer Edward Abbey called the "extraordinary beauty of wild and lonely things." His ability to depict the majesty of wild places provides viewers with the same calming sensations of solitude sought by those who travel to those astonishing environments.

Website: http://daveschiefelbeinphotography.blogspot.com/
Contact: Davechief@yahoo.com
Phone – 206-633-2828