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All of my photographs are copyright © Marc Shandro, All Rights Reserved. Please contact me first if you are interested in using any of my photographs for any purpose. More details here:
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I donate about 50% of all my photo sales to Kiva (www.kiva.org) which is an amazing micro-finance organization. So if you license one of my photos, you're making a donation to Kiva too!





From the kiva website: "It's a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur across the globe. You choose who to lend to - whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq - and as they repay their loan, you get your money back. It's a powerful and sustainable way to empower someone right now to lift themselves out of poverty."

You can see all the people around the world that I have given loans on my Kiva profile here: www.kiva.org/lender/marc4334

Click on the banner above to learn more. I urge you to get involved!




Photography is an endlessly engaging and enriching endeavor. There is a lot to learn and so many accomplished people in this field to learn from. I enjoy the process of self-discovery and from the beginning of this pursuit, and I’ve reminded myself to lean toward my heart and instinct as part of the learning process. My primary objective in all of this is to find places that fill me with wonder. It doesn’t matter if they are easy or hard to get to, popular or not, the important part is to open my senses to the moment. Sometimes it requires hiking an hour or two before dawn to see the sun rise in a magical spot. Getting the photograph is important too, but somewhat secondary to just enjoying where I am. My thinking is that if I focus too much on “getting the shot”, I miss the experience – it’s a delicate balance.

I want my portfolio to reveal the many faces of the wilderness, conveying the enduring and sometimes fleeting beauty, wonder and magic in the world. I appreciate the environments and places I explore and I want to show that they are worth respecting and honoring.


*ABW* Gallery
Aligning with my interests in nature and landscape photography, I joined the staff at *ABW* Gallery. It's a beautiful gallery showcasing tremendous photographs from hundreds of very talented photographers here on Flickr. Check it out!

A Bit of My Background:

My career as a software developer and later as a software development manager has been a fortunate one. In 1990 I had the opportunity to become one of three founders of a little company in Calgary to build an oil & gas exploration software package called AccuMap. The success of that product took off in 1993 and the product is still being used by many professionals today in the Calgary oil patch. In 2006 that journey came to an end and a new one began to unfold. Since then I’ve had more good fortune to pursue my love of travel and photography exclusively.

Quotes that I like:

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not". - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are." - Ernst Haas

"F8 and be there." - Allen Hopkins

"A photographers work is given shape and style by his personal vision. It is not simply technique, but the way he looks at life and the world around him." - Pete Turner

"The best zoom lens is your legs." - Ernst Haas

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." - Ansel Adams

"Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you." - Freeman Patterson

Why [do people] take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find. - Guo Xi

"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain


Thanks:

- for all the kind comments from so many interesting people around the Flickr world. There are incredibly talented photographers out there and it's fun to be a part of this global community of over 21 million members.
- to my wonderful kids for being who they are and enjoying adventures together with dad.
- to my partner Debbie who shares passions for the special wilderness places in the world and traveling together to experience them.


Awards:

This is one of my favorite images of an incredible place that I will be going back to. This image entitled "North Klondike Valley" received an honorable mention in the Canadian Geographic 2007 photo contest.




This one entitled "Contemplating the Wave" recently received an honorable mention in the CBC Nature of Things - Nature in Focus Environmental Photography Competition for 2007 in the "Acts of Nature" category.



Best Of:

This is my hand picked set of my favorite images. Click on any thumbnail to see the whole set on black.


This set of 500 is automatically generated based on Flickr's mysterious "interestingness" algorithm.



My Gear:

Cameras: Nikon D300, D200, D70
Lenses: 18-200mm zoom VR Nikkor, 12-24mm, 105mm VR Micro, 200-400mm zoom VR, 70-300mm zoom, old 24mm 1:2.8 AF
Support: Velbon carbon fiber tripod, Acratech head, Really Right Stuff Ultimate Pro Omni Pivot panorama package
Filters: Singh-Ray Galen Rowell 3-stop ND, circular polarizing
Bag: Crumpler 6 million dollar home (wacky name!), Lowe Pro Vertex 300 backpack, Eagle Creek fanny pack
Storage: Jobo Gigavu Pro 120Gb, Epson P2000 40Gb, Arcos Gmini 20Gb
Software: Adobe Lightroom, Autopano Pro, Photomatix for HDR, StereoPhoto Maker.
Other: Color Eyes Display Pro monitor color profiler, Garmin 60CSx GPS, Drobo external storage, WhiBal grey card, Sensor Brush, travel coffee mug, eyes, legs, sense of wonder


Places I've Visited:


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USA
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Bolivia
Chile
Argentina
UK
Spain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland
Lichtenstein
Italy
Czech Republic
The Vatican
Turkey
India
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