Picture Perfect Master, Art Wolfe.

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Welcome to the inner world of Master Photographer Art Wolfe. Over a 30-year career, Mr Wolfe has chiseled out a spot for himself among modern photographic masters of our time. Art has produced well over 1 million photo images and has a library of 70 books published to date.

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Art Wolfe is not your regular run-of-the-mill photographer, travel expenses for Wolfe's adventures are funded by Canon USA. Inc, The Microsoft Corporation and Conservation International. Seriously don't feel bad if your images don't measure up to Arts portfolio, it never hurts to get by with a little help from you're friend's! Arts friends just happen to have very deep corporate pockets.

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Art get's to travel to the edge of the world more times than he can remember, sound like a job you would like to have? Being a master photographer and having his expenses paid by big corporations does not mean Mr Wolfe has not put in his due's to get to where he is today. Any photographer willing to travel to the four corners of the glob to capture a photograph of a frog sitting on an alligator's eye deserves to be given a chance to explore his or her passion to the fullest and thankfully there are still a few people out there who agree with my philosophy. A photographer should not have to work at a service station to pump gas for a living to have to pursue an education or career in photography, music, writing or any art form for that matter.

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For Art Wolfe "photography and conservation go hand-in-hand" Mr Wolfe describes the union of art and Technology that is used to bring about change as well as educate and nudge the viewer in the right direction to be more environmentally conscious, to think about the world outside of themselves. Conservation photography received a gigantic injection of cash after the famous photo of Earth from the Apollo 17 spacecraft was published in the early 1970s. The view of Earth known as the Blue Marble has helped put into perspective the need for an environmentalism protection mandate to conserve the planet for future generations. Art believes his series of conservation photos have been used to help protect the Alaskan Arctic, Canadian Rivers and countless other locations Mr Wolfe's job has taken him to.

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Some of Mr Wolfe's career highlights include,

  • The public television series, Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe
  • The U.S. Postal Service has used Wolfe's photographs on two stamps
  • He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
  • Serves on the advisory boards for the Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Nature’s Best Foundation
  • Bridges to Understanding
  • Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP)
  • Appeared in the Australian television series Tales by Light.

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For more information, please visit

http://travelstotheedge.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Wolfe

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OMG what a wonderful post. Very well written and visual stimulating!! Thank you for sharing a top photographer in the industry. While these are all breathtaking, I wonder the amount of photoshop (photo editing) that went into them. Some highlights, some dulling of others, some twitching here and there, either way it doesn't stop me from valuing and enjoying every single one. I think I like this image in particularly

Because I feel my self being in his shoes and think, OMG what a perfect moment to take a photograph! How rare is it to capture a bear being surrounded by hundreds of Salmon.
I'm new to Steemit and haven't had a chance to see your previous post but I would be interested in seeing what you can share when it comes to contemporary artist who's work is very conceptual rather than visual. Where the idea behind the work is genius and makes think and stay with you, rather than something you see and understand like 2+2. Food for thought... Will start following you! @jazminmillion

I am a photographer and I can tell you for sure there’s not a lot of photoshop here. I had the luck to work with Frans Lanting a couple of times. These great masters like Frans and Art Wolfe shoot almost perfect pictures and use photoshop just as a dark room, for saturation, highlights, contrast. In raw formats you have to. But that’s all. They use patience, commitment and passion to take an amazing shot, but to have it, it could take them days and days of waiting in harsh conditions. For me they are a sort of superheroes!

Don't you think it's wrong then that a photographers hard work is being robbed here? Photographers like these risk their life potentially getting diseases, getting maimed by wild animals etc to produce these beautiful digital images and @jazminmillion simply shares it alongside some half-baked rewrite of a wikipedia article and earns 500 bucks (or more depending on Steem value etc). I love Steemit and this kind of copyright infringement is definitely not going to help the platform.

Well, the greatest photographers are sent by magazines like national geographic for reportages, then they earn their money through stock agencies like Getty, or photo workshops around the world. For instance Wolfe, Frans Lanting and Jack Dykinga will all go together to the Falklands late this year to bring people to take pictures of the birds and animals. That’s their biggest income. You can find free download of the same images posted here even on Art Wolfe website, because with that resolution you can print a A4 size paper, not more. It’s the same with music or ebooks: if someone wants to download your work for free he or she is not a customer anyway. So you can let them do it unless it’s for commercial porpoise. I think it’s good anyway for people to know about the work of a great artist even through a social network platform, expecially in fields like photography that are not at the top of the list as interest for many.

very interesting text

Wow awesome pictures, i love your work it.

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this is my favorite one, without a doubt. im interested wich culture is this.

This is nothing short of a masterpiece

This is truly amazing work. Thanks @jazminmillion for sharing

O wow, these pictures are really awesome.
Now I have realized why microsoft pays Photographer to go out on their behalf and take exceptional pictures. This is how the background of windows xp was taken.

Amazing

thanks friends for the visit in my post okay, do not forget the upvote, follow,

wow these are amazing images.... thank you so much for sharing! =D Upvoted and resteemed!!
Be sure to check out my page if you get a moment. :) Im an artist an just posted my latest study. 10.jpg

You little devil! Nice work ... will upvote and follow you. Good luck

thank you so much! =D and I will keep on working hard!

I love the fact you paint those images, totally edgy, sexual and creative a very nice combination.

You don't have to sell you're shirt, to do the devils work ;p

thanks! Yea when I do something like this it kind of sells itself! Thanks @jazminmillion =D

Amazing 🤘🏼

it's great that you are posting original work

thank you @ahoy8d I wouldn't imagine posting others works XD

This is some next level photography here! Wow wow wow !
Easy to understand why he is a master photographer, these pictures are cereal.
Amazing @Jazminmillion thanks again for visual stimulation of the 3rd degree.

#jazminmillion Keep posting <3

i said so👌

If you want to see original content that doesn't exploit the hard work of other photographers check out my page. Or those being shared at @photofeed

Truly amazing work. Love this one in particular.

Thanks for sharing it with us :)

Magical

Such a magical moment, the full res is really gorgeous.

Thanks for the new wallpaper!

Very nice wildlife pictures our nature is so beautiful we should preserve this beauty of ours

REALLY enjoyed reading your post, and the photo's are amazing! My favorite image is this one:

It's just fantastic! i'm going to use it as my background picture:)

I like the best photo is that photo.
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Because, I feel when looking this photo, that has so many secret and mysterious.

I love that image so much too, nice one!

Me three

I feel, this photo is showing about Global Warming.
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Thanks for your photoes and I will follow you @Jazminmillion .

I also love this image! It's so dark but the highlights in the texture add so much interest and movement all across the photograph. Great pick! @generalpyone