Breakout Speaker: NANPA Summit 2025
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Dee Ann is an award-winning nature photographer and field tour leader who shares her passion for nature through her images and leading photographic journeys across the globe. Her abundant energy and “wanderlust” have led her across our planet over 25 years in search of nature’s splendor. She is as at home in the frigid Arctic or Antarctic as she is in the heat of the Serengeti or India.
Photographs from her extensive journeys have been honored by the North America Nature Photography Association, Nature’s Best/Windland Smith Rice Int’l. Awards/Smithsonian Exhibition over six separate years, including the 2016 “Wildlife” category winning image. In 2010 she was recognized as one of Nature’s Best Ambassadors and her image “Fox Trot” was one of 36 images selected for the 50th Anniversary “Wilderness Forever” Smithsonian exhibit in 2015. And most recently, winning a 2020 Lone Star Emmy in the category “Health/Science: Program Feature” for her short lm “Against All Odds: The Emperor Penguins”.
Dee Ann’s images are sold as fine art prints as well as for editorial and commercial use; and she has published her “Nature’s Inspirations” calendar since 2004.
She has been a NANPA member since 2002; actively serves and has been a board member of the NANPA Foundation / Nature Photography Foundation since 2005.
The Nature Photography Foundation Presents:
Responsible Travel & Tourism Photography – Ethics in Action
Thursday, May 15 / 1:00pm – 2:00pm / Keynote Room
This first-time panel lead by long time NANPA members and well-respected members of the Nature Photography community share their experiences and knowledge of ethics based photography from around the world. Panelists and their topics include:
Cindy Miller Hopkins – “Expedition Cruising With a Passion for Polar”
Mary Ann and Joe McDonald – “Out of Africa: Elephants, Big Cats, Wild Dogs, Mountain Gorillas, and Culture”
Stephen Vaughan – “Photographing Close to Home – Where Ethical Considerations Intertwine with Creative Opportunities. Finding Extraordinary Images in Ordinary Places”
Dee Ann Pederson – “The Grand Canvas of Nature’s Masterpieces : Ethics in Our National Parks”
Moderator: Sonia Wasco – Nature Photography Foundation President