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Tom Watson is a freelance photographer, writer, columnist, book author and active member of OWAA and the Association of Great Lake Outdoor Writers. He hails from Appleton, Minn. E-mail him at wavetamer@hotmail.com.

Editor’s note: View Tom’s Portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard. Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

Chris Batin is editor and publisher of Alaska Angler and Alaska Hunter Publications and Video Productions. Batin is also a contributing writer for Outdoor Life, contributing editor for Travel Age West magazine, and columnist for Fairbanks News-Miner and Alaska Coast magazine. He works year round in keeping anglers up to date on new adventurers and money-saving ideas that he discovers in Alaska sportfishing and hunting.

Editor’s note: View Chris’s Portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard. Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

Wonderful Waterfowl

Eric Hansen has been an outdoor photographer for more than 25 years. Eric and his wife, Sue, do photos and stories on wildlife, hunting, fishing, conservation, travel and other subjects they find while on the road. They travel throughout the West four to six months a year. When they are home, the live in Corvallis, Ore.

Editor’s note: View Eric’s Portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard.  Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

The quiet cast of a fly line cures writer’s block for outdoor journalist Kris Millgate. Many of her multimedia production ideas come from the time she spends outdoors in southeast Idaho, where she hosts the weekly outdoor TV segment, “Time OUT with Kris Millgate.” Through the segment, she investigates outdoor and environmental issues for TV and the Web, with cross-publication in newspapers and magazines.

Millgate recognized the meshing of the mediums four years ago and made the bold move to multimedia as a freelancer. Through her production company, Tight Line Media, she produces stories using video and voice, pictures and print, then wires and Web. Along with hosting “Time OUT,” she produces shows for Outdoor Idaho and writes for Associated Press, Post Register and several magazines.

She is a member of OWAA and the National Association of Professional Women. She won 1st place  in the magazine category of the 2009 OWAA Excellence in Craft Outdoor Ethics contest and the Communicator Award of Distinction in 2008. Her 12 years of experience and several cross-country moves prove she’ll go anywhere for a good story. See her work at www.tightlinemedia.biz. ◊

Editor’s note: View Kris’s Portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard.  Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

Bud Cole is a freelance outdoor/travel writer and photographer residing in Cherryville, Penn. His outdoor column, Bud’s View, is published in eight regional newspapers in eastern Pennsylvania. This metro region, the Lehigh Valley, is the third largest population area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. His work is also carried regularly in the Northern Valley Gazette. Cole contributes to several other newspapers in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. He is a regular contributor to Pennsylvania Magazine, Ohio Valley Outdoors and the Baltimore Recreation News. Additional published work and photos have appeared in the Pennsylvania Game News, Pennsylvania Boater Angler, North American Bear Foundation Magazine and Reader’s Digest.

His first children’s book, “The Mystery of Little Bear,” will be published in 2010. Cole and his wife, Bev, are co-directors and owners of the Three B’s Mobile Nature Center, a company that presents outdoor and nature related programs to youth organizations, schools and civic groups. He is an adjunct professor teaching outdoor-related classes for youth and adults at the Northampton County Community College.

Cole’s outdoor philosophy includes a fundamental respect for the environment while establishing good conservation ethics to protect and preserve our world for future generations. His goal of introducing children to the wonders of nature, thereby building individual respect for what the natural world provides for all who wish to receive its gifts, will hopefully create a new generation of environmental caretakers. ◊

Editor’s note: View Bud’s Portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard.  Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

Drew Rush is a freelance photographer based in Jackson, Wyoming. Last winter he spent some time photographing the Teton Cougar Project, a part of Craighead Beringia South. The goal of the cougar project is to learn more about Cougars and their habitat. A small but dedicated team of research technicians are constantly in the field collecting data and monitoring cat movements. It was with this team of people that Drew was able to go out into the field and photograph them working to collect their data. To learn more about Beringia South and the Teton Cougar Project, go to www.beringiasouth.com. To view more photography by Drew Rush visit www.drewrush.com.

Editor’s note: View Drew’s Portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard.  Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

For almost 30 years, as a “serious hobby,” Roman Jaskolski has photographed wildlife–primarily mature white-tail deer. Photographs featured in his Portfolio were taken in the remote, northern regions of the Adirondacks. Jaskolski now makes his home in Montreal, Quebec.

“Unfortunately, as the equipment has become better and better, the deer have become fewer and fewer. Many of the remote areas where these photos were taken are now open to roads and civilization and the deer are no more,” Jaskolski said.

These images are also featured on Jaskolski’s new Web site, www.whitetail-photos.com. He currently offers one image free of charge to OWAA members (excluding shipping and handling). The free image can be used to support the member’s work, so long as it is not sold on its own. Additional prints are 50 percent off the stated price, plus shipping and handling. Discount images are subject to same criteria. E-mail Jaskolski for more information.

Editor’s note: View Roman’s Portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard.  Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

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“On August 1, 2009, I boarded a plane in Billings, Mont. Some 3,500 air miles and two days later I touched down at the Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania. In the company of three other OWAAers — Lisa Densmore, Bill Powell and Wayne Van Zwoll — I set out from the Machame Gate on the lower flank of Mount Kilimanjaro for Uhuru Peak, the highest point in Africa. Though the climb represented the primary goal of trip, opportunities to photograph the flora and fauna of Kilimanjaro’s five distinct ecosystems came at nearly every bend of the trail.

After descending the mountain, Bill, Lisa and I set out to view wildlife at four of Tanzania’s National Park. Wayne had to return stateside to attend to professional responsibilities. Between the three of us, we photographed nearly 70 species of wildlife, from lumbering elephants to tiny, ferocious red ants. Despite a most unpleasant reminder of why Western visitors should take extraordinary precautions to protect their digestive tracts from African microbes, the climb and wildlife safari were truly unforgettable.”

–Jack Ballard

Editor’s note: View Jack’s portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard.  Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

Editor’s note: View Bill’s portfolio by clicking on any of the images to begin. To scroll through the photographs, use the arrow keys on your keyboard.  Hovering your cursor over images will also reveal left and right arrows for scrolling.

William H. Mullins, of Boise, Idaho, is a freelance photographer, retired wildlife biologist and a 20-year member of OWAA.

Photographers competed in a themed photo scavenger hunt during the June 13-16 conference in Grand Rapids, Mich. Coming this week: another Portfolio featuring candid shots from the conference.

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