Cliff Beittel
http://www.agpix.com/cliffbeittel
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THE FILE 125,000 35mm slides, 16.7- and 21-megapixel digital originals. Slides are also available as drum-quality scans.
OVERVIEW Birds, birdwatchers and birding hot spots; associated mammals, reptiles and plants.
NATURAL HISTORY Beautifully lit, calendar-quality bird and wildlife portraits and behavior. Razor-sharp flight shots and action. Groups, interaction, anthropomorphic behavior, humor. Inspirational scenics of birds in habitat. Singing and calling birds. Birds of grasslands, prairie, prairie potholes, subarctic tundra, South Florida, Lower Rio Grande Valley. Birds of the Galapagos and Falkland Islands. Penguins and other seabirds of the southern ocean. Migrant songbirds. Wolves, brown bears, mountain lions, lynx, bobcats, and other mammals.
SPECIALTIES Birds, wildlife, wild places, people visiting wild places.
GEOGRAPHIC AREAS North America: Alaska (Homer, Nome, Alaska Peninsula including Katmai NP), southeastern Arizona, southern California, Colorado (Rocky Mountain NP), Florida (Ding Darling NWR, Everglades NP, Loxahatchee NWR, Sanibel, Venice), Manitoba (Churchill), Minnesota, Montana, New Brunswick (Machias Seal Island), New Mexico (Bosque del Apache NWR), North Dakota (especially Lostwood NWR), Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas (especially lower Rio Grande Valley, coast). Latin America: Belize, Guatemala (Tikal). South America: Falklands, Galápagos. Antarctica: South Georgia, Antarctic Peninsula.
RECENT COVERAGE New Zealand, including subantarctic islands, penguins, other seabirds, endemic landbirds, and culture (December 2008). Grand Teton and Yellowstone NPs, elk, scenics, and geysers (September 2008). Florida birds (April 2008). Trumpeter swans, mallards, raptors and mammals in snow, Minnesota (February 2008). Wintering birds, New Jersey coast (February 2008). Brown bears, Alaska Peninsula, nesting terns, gulls and grebes near Anchorage (July 2007). Migrant warblers near Lake Erie (May 2007). Migrant orioles, tanagers and warblers, Texas Coast (April 2007).
PHOTOGRAPHIC PLANS Midway Atoll for albatrosses and other nesting seabirds (April 2009).
CREDITS Magazines: American Hunter, Attaché, Audubon, Birding, Birder's World (including covers, center portraits), Bird Watcher's Digest (including many lead photos), Canadian, Defenders, Ducks Unlimited, GEICO Direct (including cover), Home & Away, Islands, Living Bird (many front and back covers), Mature Outlook, National Wildlife (including covers, Final Frame), Nature Conservancy, Outdoor America (cover), Outdoor Life, Puddler, Ranger Rick, Rio Grande Valley Nature, Sierra, Texas Highways, Time for Kids (cover), Voyageur, WildBird (including covers), Wilderness, Your Big Backyard (including cover, center poster). Books: Agrupacion Sierra Madre (MX), Bird Watcher's Digest, Capstone, Child's World, Compass Point, Cowles Creative, Ducks Unlimited, W.H. Freeman, HarperResource, Holt Rinehart, Hunter Publishing (cover), Macmillan, Meredith, Moschovitis, National Geographic, North American Outdoor Group, Pearson Education, Reed (NZ) (including cover), Rodale, Scott Foresman, Stackpole, Stech-Vaughn, Stokes, Wiley & Sons. Paper Products: Audubon (including calendar cover), Barnes & Noble, Ducks Unlimited, Gladstone, Healthy Planet, Massachusetts Audubon, National Wildlife, Nature Conservancy, NorthWord, Pomegranate Communications (Sierra Club cards), Sanibel-Captiva (including covers), Self-Realization Fellowship (Inner Reflections), Stokes, Three Black Ducks, Willow Creek. Other: Cornell Lab of Ornithology (brochure and CD covers), Defenders of Wildlife (lobbying handouts, refuge reports), Ducks Unlimited (annual reports, including cover), General Motors (website), Impact Photo Graphics (screen savers), NANPA (brochures), Peregrine Adventures, Pew Oceans Commission, Prairie Pothole Joint Venture, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (kiosk), Texas State Bank (billboards), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (signs, billboards). Awards: First Grand Prize, $100,000 Valley Land Fund Wildlife Photo Contest (1998); Highly Commended, Wildlife Photographer of the Year (1998); winner (one of ten) 2006 and 2008 NANPA Showcases.
RELATED CREDENTIALS/SKILLS Strong writer with published photoessays or articles on Loxahatchee NWR, Lostwood NWR, Valley Land Fund photo contest, Bosque del Apache NWR, Falkland Islands, Antarctica.
COMMENTS Full-time photographer/writer available for assignments. Electronic delivery.
NONEDITORIAL SERVICES Slideshows. Custom-made, archival fine-art prints.
Cliff Beittel
287 Brookwood Dr. N
York PA 17403-4960

Phone:
717 843-3645 / 717 779-4057 (mobile)

Fax:
717 843-3645

Email:
cbeittel@aol.com

Contact:
Susan Beittel

Bald Eagle calling/screaming

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