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Published: Sept. 16, 2015, 7:30 a.m.

Today\u2019s featured guest is Lewis Kemper.

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Lewis Is a Fine Art nature and wild life photographer and has been for over 30 years. His travels throughout 47 states from Alaska to Florida are the scenes for his subjects. Lewis still does color work with a 4x5 camera as well as digital work and is a Canon Explorer of Light Emeritus.

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Lewis Kemper has been photographing the natural beauty of North America, and its parklands for over 30 years.\xa0During his extensive travels, he has been to 47 states from Alaska to Florida.\xa0\xa0 His work has been exhibited and published in magazines, books, and calendars worldwide.

\nBefore moving west, he received a BA in Fine Art Photography from the George Washington University in 1976.\xa0The grandeur of the west beckoned and Lewis moved to Yosemite National Park, where he lived for 11 years.\xa0From 1978 until 1980, he worked at The Ansel Adams Gallery.\xa0Working at the gallery gave him the opportunity to meet, observe and learn from some of the greatest photographers of our time. \u201cThe experience of working at The Ansel Adams Gallery was very influential in my development as a photographer\u201d, he states.\n\xa0\nLewis photographs in color using Canon digital cameras and 4 x 5 cameras and is a Canon Explorer of Light Emeritus.\n\xa0\nLewis is also working with digital imaging on his Apple computer to create new work.\xa0His work has been sold for editorial and commercial uses in over 16 different countries ranging from national ads to book covers.\n\xa0\nKemper\u2019s photographs are in many private collections as well as in the permanent collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Kaiser Permanente.\xa0His work has been shown nationally in galleries and museums.\xa0Some of these include: The Frederick S. Wight Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cornell Museum, The Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, The Popular Photography Gallery, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Photographer\u2019s Gallery and the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center.\xa0He prints his own archival inkjet prints using Canon\u2019s 12 color ImagePROGRAF 6450 printer using the finest materials available.\n\xa0
Lewis teaches photography for many organizations including Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Santa Fe Workshops, Light Photographic Workshops, Aspen Workshops and Betterphoto.com. He is the author of \u201cThe Yosemite Photographer\u2019s Handbook\u201d, \u2002and \u201cThe Yellowstone Photographer\u2019s Handbook.\u201d He was the photographer for, \u201cAncient Ancestors of the Southwest\u201d, published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing. His monograph, \u201cCapturing the Light\u201d won the People\u2019s Choice Awards in Fine Art in the 2009 Photography.Book.Now competition. His latest publication \u201cPhotographing Yosemite Digital Field Guide\u201d was voted in the top 20 field guides. And he produces the acclaimed\xa0 training DVD\u2019s \u201cThe Photographer\u2019s Toolbox for Photoshop\xae\u201d and "The Photographer's Toolbox for Lightroom\xae".\n\xa0\nHis work has been published in numerous books including publications by The Sierra Club, The National Geographic Society, Little and Brown, APA Insight Guides, Prentice Hall, and Hyperion Books.\xa0His pictures have appeared in calendars published by Audubon, The Sierra Club, The Mono Lake Coalition, Self Realization Foundation, Golden Turtle Press, The Sierra Press, Day Dream Calendars, Avalanche Publishing, Browntrout, The Nature Conservancy, Tide-Mark Press and others.\xa0His work has appeared in magazines that include: Backpacker, Women\u2019s Sports and Fitness, The Walking Magazine, Sierra, Motorland, Terre Sauvage, Environmental Protection Magazine, National Wildlife, National Geographic Traveler, American Photographer, View Camera, Digital Photo, Camera Arts, Shutterbug, and Outdoor Photographer.\xa0Currently Lewis is a contributing editor to Outdoor Photographer and NANPA Currents magazine.