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Profile
THE FILE 200,000 plus images in varied formats of 35mm (150,000), medium format (50,000) and 4 X 5 (10,000), covering a broad range of subject matter and locations.
OVERVIEW A focus on animals, particularly birds of North America, landscapes, particularly of North American parks, wilderness areas and seascapes, and adventure activity, which includes canoeing, rafting and dory trips, mountaineering, backpacking, camping, kayaking, blue water and day sailing, and hiking. Also, flowers, vegetables and butterflies.
NATURAL HISTORY Wildlife images include many animals and birds from Africa and a wide range of birds and other animals photographed throughout North America from the Baja of Mexico and Florida to Alaska. The file includes extensive coverage of grizzly bears in Alaska. Considerable coverage of Anasazi ruins and pictographs and petroglyphs from Chaco Canyon, Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands, Hovenweap, Mesa Verde, Canyon De Chelly and Wupatki. Subjects also include the Petrified Forest, El Morrow, El Malpais, Fort Laramie, Chimney Rock, Scotts Bluff and Independence Rock.
LANDSCAPE National parks, monuments, refuges and wilderness areas of the United States, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), Death Valley NP, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arches NP, Canyonlands NP, Great Basin NP, Bryce NP Grand Canyon NP (extensive coverage at river level), Coyote Buttes. Many state parks. Also included are Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Wiamea Canyon, Hawaii, Denali NP, Haleakala Crater, Yellowstone NP, the Arctic NWR, Grand Teton NP, Natural Bridges NM, Mount Rainier NP, seascapes from the Gulf Coast, the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific, Africa and the Mexican Baja.
ADVENTURE Rafting and dory trips in the Grand Canyon; rafting in the main Salmon, the Middle Fork of the Salmon, Cataract Canyon and in the Hulahula River of the Arctic NWR; mountaineering on Mt. Rainier, Wheeler Peak in Great Basin NP, Mt. St. Helens (after eruption), Kilimanjaro and Pico de Orizaba (Mexico); backpacking in the Arctic NWR, Yellowstone back country and Haleakala Crater (in Hawaii); blue water sailing in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean; day sailing in the English Channel and the Great Lakes; canoeing in the BWCAW; kayaking in Prince William Sound.
CITYSCAPES Minneapolis and St. Paul, Chicago, New York, Boston, Honolulu, New Orleans, San Francisco, Paris, London, Cherbourg, Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Stone Town, Zanzibar and Acapulco.
AIRCRAFT Extensive collection of static and in-flight images of historic aircraft (World War II bombers and fighters), air show stunt planes and some current military and experimental aircraft.
SPECIALTIES High-speed flash of birds in flight, North American birds, landscapes having unique features, Anasazi pictographs and petroglyphs, adventure and adventure travel.
GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Pemba, Zanzibar), Canada, Europe (England and France), Mexico, South Pacific (New Zealand and Fiji), United States including Alaska and Hawaii.
RECENT COVERAGE Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks NM in New Mexico, the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in New Mexico, Hovenweap, Monument Valley, Lake Powell, Rainbow Bridge, North Coyote Buttes and the Wave, Natural Bridges, Goblin Valley, Red Canyon, Kodachrome Basin, Cedar Breaks, Capitol Reef, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the Goosenecks of the San Juan River.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PLANS High-speed flash of barn owls (in flight) and small song birds in Florida in the winter of 2007. Canoeing in the BWCAW in May . In June I will be joining MIA Hunters on a mission in the jungles of Papua New Guinea searching for military personnel missing in action during WWII, and after the mission I will be spending several weeks photographing the birds, butterflies, orchids and scenery in New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. In the early fall a trip to Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas for large mammals and landscapes.
CREDITS Magazines/Newspapers: Birder's World, Birds Eye View, Backpacker, The Commemorative Air Force, Minnesota Cities, Minnesota Distance Runner, Minnesota Ornithological Union magazine LOON, Minnesota Birding, Minnesota Outdoor News, National Wildlife, The Picture Professional, Runner's World, The Magazine of the St. Paul Athletic Club, United Mainliner, U.S. Air Magazine, Wilderness. Books: The Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas. Advertising/Corporate: The Minnesota Club, Briggs and Morgan, P.A., The Landmark Center, Princess Cruise Lines, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, Minnesota Credit Union, Outward Bound International, Colorado Outward Bound School, St. Agnes Church. Calendars: The Judith Roth Studio Collection – corporate calendars (The Nature Calendar), The Woman's Calendar, Purina Mills Calendar. Awards: National Wildlife Photo Contest Winner 2004; First Place, Landmark Center 100th Anniversary Poster Photo Contest; First Place Oscar Scherer Florida State Park Florida Bird Image Contest; three times Best of Show in Monticello Minnesota Arts Council Contest and Exhibit; twice winner League of Minnesota Cities Urban Landscapes Contest. Exhibits: Image selected for the “Only Human” exhibit of the Academy of Art University of San Francisco. Member: ASPP, charter member and past president of NANPA. Agency: Danita Delimont Stock Photography.
RELATED CREDENTIALS/SKILLS Listed in Adobe Photographer's Directory. Film (16mm) and video (digital) library containing voluminous footage of Grand Canyon rafting, some of which is included in a National Parks video on VHS tape and DVD entitled, Touring America's National Parks. Significant footage of historic aircraft shot in dozens of air shows including the 2006 premier air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
COMMENTS Available to undertake assignments. Have in-house scanning capacity to produce editorial quality high-resolution scans of images in inventory. Currently shoot with 35mm digital and film and medium- and large-format film. Able to produce multimedia products and provide digital delivery of images.
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Bernard P. Friel 750 Mohican Lane Mendota Heights MN 55120-1633 US Phone: 651 454-3655 Fax: 651 454-7206 Email: wampy@att.net Website: www.wampy.com Contact: Bernard P. Friel |