Olympic National Park has three distinct ecosystems – Mountains and Alpine Meadows, Temperate Rainforest, Coastal Beaches. This itinerary seeks to give the participants a chance to photograph in all these natural landscapes in six days.
From Seattle we’ll travel by private coach and ferry to Hurricane Ridge, Port Angeles to Sol Duc Falls, Lake Crescent to Hoh Rain Forest, Second Beach and Ruby Beach ending with the Maple Glade Rainforest.
Peter Essick
Peter Essick is a photographer, teacher, and editor with 30 years of experience working with National Geographic Magazine. He specializes in nature and environmental themes. Named one of the forty most influential nature photographers in the world by Outdoor Photography Magazine UK, Essick has been influenced by many noted American landscape photographers from Carleton Watkins to Robert Adams. His goal is to make photographs that move beyond documentation to reveal in careful compositions the human impact of development as well as the enduring power of the land.
Essick is the author of four books of his photographs, The Ansel Adams Wilderness, Our Beautiful, Fragile World, Fernbank Forest and Work in Progress. He has photographed stories for National Geographic on many environmental issues including climate change, high-tech trash, nuclear waste and freshwater. After 30 years travelling the world as an editorial photographer, Essick decided to focus his work on a more personal documentation of the environmental and cultural changes in his hometown of Atlanta.
Essick’s photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Booth Western Art Museum and many other private collections. He is represented by Spalding Nix Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Hoh Rainforest ©NPS
Featured Image: Hurricane Ridge ©NPS
