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The closer you...
[These are sites with useful information, but their main purpose is
commercial]
Mike Kirk All kinds of gizmos for
nature photographers. Tripods, heads, brackets, plates and other hard to find
things designed to make life easier for nature photographers.
Really Right Stuff (RRS) At
last! RRS have joined the rest of us and got a web site. QR plates for Arca-Swiss
type QR systems, plus flash brackets and other specialized brackets and plates.
If they don't have a plate for your camera or lens, Bryan will probably make one
for you!. Not too much info there as of 7/98, but at least you can send a request
for their catalog. One day they may get email too...
Kinesis Photo Gear Camera and
lens bags. Modular belt system. Long lens bags. Basically a product advertisment,
but some of their offerings might be of interest to nature photographers wanting
to carry equipment in the field.
George Lepp's Pages are under
construction as of 02/97. Might be some more good stuff here in time. As of 3/98
the pages are still under construction. Also, someone should tell whoever
writes George's pages that yellow text on a white background is really
hard to read! As of 7/98, still lots of promises about great things to come one
of these days...the text is easier to read now though.
Arthur Morris has a web page listing
his books, workshops and linking to examples of his bird photography.
Photo Traveller - Brief on-line
guides to several parks and other scenic areas, plus infomation on their tours,
workshops and printed guides.
Moose Peterson has a web
page. A classic example of a multicolored text, Java driven, Music playing,
animated GIF site that sometimes crashes my browser and is so annoying and hard
to read that you may give up before getting to the good stuff. This would be an
error though, because there is good stuff here. You have been warned.
Please don't emulate this page design! As of 03/98, it (or my browser) seems a
bit more stable. I still hate the background music though! As of 8/98 it's still
Java based and "plug-in" rich, plus the background music isn't any less annoying.
Good content though if you dig for it.
NANPA - North American Nature
Photographer's Association pages. Lots of useful information, and the only thing
they will try to sell you is a membership!
Great Outdoor Recreation Pages - A good
place to search for location information, lots of advertising - but it's easy to
avoid if you don't want it.
AG-Editions - The on-line service of the
people who bring you the Green Book, the Blue Book and the Guilfoyle Report.
AG-Editions is a publisher of material which promotes contacts between image
providers and photo buyers. Contact info for photographers (e.g. well know nature
photographers such as Boyd Norton, Franz Lanting and Gary Braasch) can be found
on the site.
Nature Photographer Magazine - Well, this isn't actually a link since
they don't yet have a web site (09/99), but you can contact them at
nature_photographer@yahoo.com.
Snail mail is P.O. Box 690518, Quincy, MA 02269. Phone is 617/847-0091 and
fax is 617/847-0952.
