THE FILE 110,000+ 35mm images; slide and digital (8.5-12.5 megapixel) with a growing file of panoramic images.

OVERVIEW Joel Rogers is a Seattle-based stock photographer, photojournalist and author who has spent 26 years photographing and writing on adventure travel, travel, outdoor sports, world trade and environmental themes.

ADVENTURE TRAVEL & SPORTS An all-inclusive and wide-ranging rowing and sea kayaking collection - competitive and recreational. An extensive file on surf kayaking, sailing, skiing, hiking, camping, climbing (ice and rock), outdoor schools, minimum impact, women in outdoor sports.

SEATTLE: Coffee, computers, microbrews, WTO, the Space Needle, Pike Place Market. Ongoing work has resulted in a new 112-image 16,000-word book titled Seattle, published in October 2007. Specialist in water-related views of the city, the Port of Seattle, houseboats, neighborhoods and bakeries.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST The Pacific Ocean, Olympic NP, San Juan Islands, Vancouver Island, Mount Rainier, North Cascades NP and the Cascade Range, flora, fauna, salmon, orca whales. Puget Sound and its estuaries, the Columbia Basin, Columbia River and the Hanford Reach. Oregon and Northern California coasts.

ALASKA, Prince William Sound, Kenai Fiords, Denali and other NPs and preserves. The Inside Passage, Southeast Alaska, Glacier Bay, Baranof and Chichagof Islands, the Yukon, Prudhoe Bay oil fields and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Alaska maritime includes cruise ships, tugs/barges and fishing, bush planes - no bears!

ENVIRONMENT & INDUSTRY Extensive file on The Nature Conservancy preserves. Salmon recovery, dams and stream restoration. EXXON Valdez aftermath in Alaska, Trans-Alaska pipeline and the Prudhoe Bay oilfields 1977-78. The Hanford nuclear site and the Hanford NM. Old-growth timber, clearcuts and logging, pulp and paper mills. Land use, air and water pollution, garbage. Agriculture, farms, wheat harvest and irrigation. Salmon, dams and commercial fishing.

EUROPE On and off season in locales such as Istanbul, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville and Granada in Spain, and Croatia (Dubrovnik and the Dalmation Islands).

PACIFIC RIM, THE CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA Water-related images of Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Fiji, Japan. Caribbean images include Belize, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the British Virgin Islands and Costa Rica. Galapagos Islands.

SPECIALTIES Expedition sea kayaking and competitive rowing (crew). Joel Roger's sea kayaking collection began 21 years ago paddling the coast of Baja, Mexico. He has two books on sea kayaking: Watertrail, A Hidden Path through Puget Sound (Sasquatch Books) and the award-winning The Hidden Coast, Coastal Explorations from Alaska to Mexico (WestWinds Press). Joel started photographing rowing in 1992, at the same time he began rowing a single racing shell. Since then, he has created one of the world’s largest files on competitive and recreational rowing.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS South and Central America: Argentina, Baja, Belize, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Galapagos, Guatemala, Mexico. Asia/Pacific: Fiji, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand. Europe: Crete, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Wales. International Cities: Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Dubrovnik, Havana, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, London, Lucerne, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome. North America: Boston and New England, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, Washington D.C., Victoria and Vancouver B.C.

RECENT COVERAGE New work on Sailing Elba (Italy) and Corsica (France). A return to Istanbul in off-season. World Rowing Championships, Eton, Great Britain. West Coast Sea Kayaking Symposium, Port Townsend (Washington). Shot the Florida Sea Kayak Symposium and kayaked the Tampa Bay area (manatees, crocodiles and rosesate spoonbills, oh my!).

PHOTOGRAPHIC PLANS A new book project is in the works that take me throughout the United States. It begins spring 2008 and is environmentally based and image-rich. I'll be sea kayaking Vancouver Island Pacific Rim NP and, possibly, Alaska. In October I'll be at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston again.

CREDITS Magazines: Alaska Airlines, American Way, Backpacker, CNN Publications, Canoe & Kayak, Fit For Fun (German), Fitness, Forbes, High Country News, GEO (German), Glamour, Health, Hemispheres (United Airlines), Men's Journal, Nature Conservancy, Outside, Outdoor Photographer, Rowing News, Sierra, Sky (Delta) Smithsonian, Sunset, Trust for Public Lands, USAir, US Rowing. Books: Graphic Arts Center Publishing, Houghton Mifflin, W.W. Norton.

RELATED CREDENTIALS/SKILLS Joel specializes in writing and photographing for magazine articles and books. He has written and photographed four books, including British Columbia - Vancouver by Insight Guides. His newest book, Seattle was published in October 2007.

COMMENTS Joel Rogers' images and writing are defined by a sense of exploration and discovery. Long-standing clients have recognized this and have helped shape his collection and credentials into a worldwide picture stock venue. He uses Canon digital equipment (8.2 to 12.5 megapixels using Adobe Raw format). He continues to use panoramic and 35mm film cameras as well.

NONEDITORIAL SERVICES "My mentor was and still is Steven C. Wilson. When I launched my career, he told me to never deny aspiring photographers the opportunity to meet and discuss photography. The door is open.