Frans lanting workshops and seminars

Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great photographers of our time. His influential work appears in books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world. Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he earned a master’s degree in economics then moved to the United States to study environmental planning. Soon after, he began photographing the natural world–and never turned back.

For three decades he has documented wildlife from the Amazon to Antarctica to promote understanding about the Earth and its natural history through images that convey a passion for nature and a sense of wonder and concern about our living planet.

“Frans Lanting has set the standards for a whole generation of wildlife photographers,” according to the BBC. “Mr. Lanting’s photographs take creatures that have become ordinary and transform them into haunting new visions,” writes acclaimed field biologist Dr. George Schaller in The New York Times. “As a chronicler of natural history today, Frans Lanting is a singular, extraordinary talent,” says Thomas Kennedy, former Director of Photography at National Geographic. “He has the mind of a scientist, the heart of a hunter, and the eyes of a poet.”

Lanting’s work has been commissioned frequently by National Geographic, where he served as a Photographer-in-Residence. His assignments have ranged from a first look at the fabled bonobos of the Congo to a circumnavigation by sailboat of South Georgia Island in the subantarctic. In a remote part of the Amazon Basin, he spent weeks on platform towers to obtain rare tree-canopy views of wild macaws. He has lived for months with seabirds on isolated atolls in the Pacific Ocean, tracked lions through the African night, and camped among giant tortoises inside a volcano in the Galápagos.

Lanting did pioneering work in Madagascar, where he documented wildlife and tribal traditions never photographed before. His celebrated coverage of the Okavango Delta in National Geographic

Frans Lanting is one of the most highly acclaimed nature photographers in the world. He is a photographer for National Geographic, a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, the author of many books, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award.

More than 100 solo exhibitions of Lanting’s work have been held at museums and galleries around the world. And three of his images were selected by his peers for a charity auction at Christie’s that featured the 40 most important photographs of nature ever made.

On March 20, beginning at 9 a.m. Pacific time, the website CreativeLive.com will air live (and for free) Lanting’s course The Art of Photographing Birds. The course will be free to watch for 24 hours, and afterward, it will be available for $99.

Recently, bird photographer Brian E. Small interviewed Lanting ahead of the release of the CreativeLive course. Small’s photos appear in every issue of BirdWatching in Kenn Kaufman’s “ID Tips” column, and his work has appeared in many books, magazines, calendars, websites, newspapers, smartphone apps, and the feature film “The Big Year.”

Please enjoy this discussion about bird photography with two of the best in the business. – Matt Mendenhall

Thank you for sharing a little bit of your time with the readers of BirdWatching magazine. We very much appreciate it. You’ve spent a lot of time in Antarctica working on penguins and you’ve done a lot of work on seabirds. Can you tell us why those families in particular sparked your interest?

I love the birds as characters, and I love the places where they come together: islands in the Arctic and the Antarctic, for example. Many of them are island creatures, so they don’t have a lot of fear of humans, and that makes it possible to do real intimate portrayals of their lives. So, you can get much closer. You can use all kinds of lens

Last chance with the Masters!

Join three nature photography masters, Frans Lanting, Thomas D. Mangelsen,
and Art Wolfe, for a unique weekend of photographic inspiration

Three of the world’s most renowned nature photographers–Frans Lanting, Thomas D. Mangelsen, and Art Wolfe–have teamed up to present a series of unique weekend events that will change the way you look at photography and what you can do with your own camera.

The next Masters of Nature Photography Seminar will be held Friday evening, February 14 through Sunday, February 16, 2014, in Atlanta at the High Museum of Art.  For more information or to register, please visit www.MastersofNaturePhotography.com.

$595 until  February 7; late registrations $695

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Masters of Nature Photography Dates Announced!

I’m excited to announce that the next Masters of Nature Photography seminar with Tom Mangelsen, Frans Lanting and me will take place February 14th to 16th at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.

We will draw from our wide-ranging experience with subjects and locations around the world to inspire attendees, show them new ways to see, give them tools to create more compelling images, and empower them to use photography to benefit conservation causes and other personal interests.  Our presentations will be mixed with panel discussions, Q & A sessions, and reviews of images submitted by attendees.

For more info or to register, please visit mastersofnaturephotography.com

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MASTERS OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

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