THE FILE 70,000 35mm and digital originals; 2,000 b/w.

OVERVIEW Photos that communicate. Worldwide and U.S. travel destinations—countryside, architecture, people. Southwest Native American tribes—the vitality of contemporary cultures, portraits, art, pottery, ceremony; Pueblo, Navajo, Apache, Hopi, more, in color and b/w. The American West landscapes and destinations, especially wilderness, national parks. Kids in nature. Nature writers (b/w).

NATURAL HISTORY Ecological communities, geology and geography, western life zones from coastline to alpine tundra (including deserts, forests, grasslands, sand dunes, woodlands). Graphically bold landforms. Animal and plant portraits. Dramatic lighting, moods. Seasons, weather. Field paleontology.

SPECIALTIES Travel beyond the stereotypes. Indigenous peoples. Desert Southwest, Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, Rockies—landscapes, geology, history, geography. Sensitive plant and animal portraits. Seasons, weather, dramatic lighting and moods. Evocation of a place and warmth of people composed boldly with lush color.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS U.S.: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New England (especially Maine coast), New Mexico, Utah. Latin America: Ecuador, Galápagos, Amazonian rainforest, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru. Europe: Provence, Spain, Tuscany. Africa: Egypt, Kenya. Asia: Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand.

RECENT COVERAGE A 2007 revised edition of Talking with the Clay: the Art of Pueblo Pottery in the 21st Century, includes dozens of newly published images from the Pueblo Indian villages of New Mexico and Arizona. Great material from an assignment on mountain biking in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Steve has become something of a specialist in Latin American subjects, with new work from Guatemala. A month photographing in Sonora and Baja California, Mexico--especially in Seri Indian villages, the Cape region of Baja, and the Vizcaino Desert. Extensive travel in Ecuador and the Galapagos: Travel and wildlife, Amazon rainforest lodge, Indian markets.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PLANS Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography, (2006), Stephen Trimble's book on the history of Grand Canyon photography includes 20 interviews with contemporary photographers. His book on development in the Wasatch Mountains and Canyon Country of Utah, Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America will appear in 2008.

CREDITS Magazines: Antiques, Audubon (cover), Diversion, Elle, Endless Vacation (cover), Geo (Germany), National Geographic Traveler, Native Peoples, Natural History, Newsweek, Orion (cover), Outside, Sesame Street Parents, Sierra, Smithsonian, Travel + Leisure, Weekly Reader (cover), Wilderness, many inflight magazines. Books: Covers for American Geographic, Anchor, APA, Dutton, Falcon, HarperCollins, IDG, Moon, Northland, Penguin, Gibbs Smith, Stewart Tabori & Chang, Utah Film Commission (locations guide), university presses; interior images for Chronicle, Geo, Grolier, Harper San Francisco, Image Bank, Knopf, Little Brown, Lonely Planet, National Geographic, St. Remy Press, Smithsonian, Time-Life. Author/Photographer: Two dozen award-winning books on western wildlands, indigenous peoples (Beacon, Gibbs Smith, Macmillan, Northland, University of Nevada, more). Sole Photographer: Four Native American calendars. Advertising/Corporate: Amnesty International, Leo Burnett, Ford Foundation, Franklin Covey, Industria, Living Music, Nature Company, Public Media Center, Tauck Tours, Timberland, Universal Press Syndicate, Utah Film Commission, Western Spirit Cycling. Other: Museum displays in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States. Awards: Ansel Adams (1991), Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters (Colorado College). Agents: DRK Photo (AZ). Member: ASMP, Author's Guild.

RELATED CREDENTIALS/SKILLS M.S., ecology. Doctorate, humane letters.

COMMENTS Takes photographs as an insider—seeing travel subjects as a native rather than a tourist, the natural world as a former park naturalist, the West as a resident writer/scholar. After 30 years of creating books, Stephen sees his photography with the designed, crafted, printed page always in mind.