THE FILE 110,000+ 35mm images; slide and digital (8.5-16 megapixels) with a growing file of panoramic images.

OVERVIEW Joel Rogers is a Seattle-based stock photographer, photojournalist and author who has spent 28 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, hiking, camping. Files on climbing (ice and rock), outdoor schools, minimum impact, women in outdoor sports. I began my career photographing the environmental issues of the day, and that initial theme has increasingly become a central part of my new work.

SEATTLE: Coffee, computers, microbrews, WTO, the Space Needle, Pike Place Market. Ongoing work has resulted in a 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 National Monument. 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 Dalmatian Islands.

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

SPECIALTIES Expedition sea kayaking and competitive rowing (crew). Joel Roger's sea kayaking collection began 26 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 2011 FISA World Rowing Championships in Bled Slovenia, Slovenia and Croatia travel, hiking Mount Rainier National Park's Wonderland Trail, The Grand Canyon, The Pacific Crest Trail in northern Washington State, and a western road trip from Seattle to Texas and back. A return to Istanbul in off-season. Lastly, the Florida Sea Kayak Symposium where I also kayaked the Tampa Bay area: manatees, crocodiles and roseate spoonbills.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PLANS A new book project is in the works that MAY be throughout the United States. It began in the spring of 2008 and is environmentally based and image-rich. This spring I'll aim for Big Bend NP and Padre Island, Aransas in Texas. Possibly grasslands in Kansas and the Dakotas. I'll be sea kayaking Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim NP in late summer. Other possibilities include fall season Upstate New York, Maine (the Appalachian Trail) with the Head of the Charles Regatta in October.

CREDITS Magazines: Alaska Airlines, American Way, Backpacker, Bloomberg Business, CNN Publications, Canoe & Kayak, Fitness, Forbes, High Country News, Glamour, Great Outdoors.com, Health, Hemispheres (United Airlines), Men's Journal, Nature Conservancy, Outside, Outdoor Photographer, Rowing Canada, 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 books, including: The Hidden Coast, Coastal Adventures from Alaska to Mexico by WestWinds Press, British Columbia - Vancouver by Insight Guides, Watertrail, The Hidden Path through Puget Sound by Sasquatch Books. His most recent book, Seattle, was published in October 2007 by Graphic Arts Center.

COMMENTS Joel Rogers's 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 to 16 megapixels using Adobe Raw format. An additional note from Joel Rogers: "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."