Biography
“I’ve loved nature all my life. With a few “detours” along the way, travels as a child have grown into a career of meaning and purpose.”
Dee Ann is an award-winning nature photographer and field tour leader who shares her passion for nature through her images and leading photographic journeys across the globe. Her awareness and respect for nature began during family vacations to visit our national parks and natural wonders. At the age of seventeen, she began her love for photography while working as a photographer’s assistant. Her abundant energy and “wanderlust” have led her across our planet over 20 years in search of nature’s splendor. She is as at home in the frigid Arctic or Antarctic as she is in the heat of the Serengeti or India.
Photographs from her extensive journeys have been honored by the North America Nature Photography Association, Nature’s Best/Windland Smith Rice Int’l. Awards/Smithsonian Exhibition over six separate years, including the 2016 “Wildlife” category winning image. In 2010 she was recognized as one of Nature’s Best Ambassadors and her image “Fox Trot” was one of 36 images selected from 5,000 representing the 50th Anniversary “Wilderness Forever” Smithsonian exhibit in 2015. And most recently, winning a 2020 Lone Star Emmy in the category “Health/Science: Program Feature” for her short film “Against All Odds: The Emperor Penguins”.
Dee Ann’s images are sold as fine art prints as well as for editorial and commercial use (including National Geographic calendars, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Expeditions, Yale University, Holland American Cruise Line, British Airways, Cabela’s, and others); and she has published her “Nature’s Inspirations” calendar since 2004.
She is a member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and an active member of the NANPA Foundation Board.
“My message is perhaps low-key and simple, yet powerful and crucial: our planet is a place of staggering variety and beauty, yet it’s the only one we’ve got, and it needs us more than ever – to nurture the tapestry that supports us all.”