Bio

Terry Livingstone has been practicing his craft for over 30 years. His powerful images of nature's beauty appear worldwide in calendars, books, magazines, advertisements, postcards, etc. His publication credits include Audubon, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Living Planet, The Atlantic Monthly, Camera & Darkroom, Florida Wildlife, National Audubon Society Field Guides, Sierra Club Books, Willow Creek Press, NikonNet, MSN Photo, and Webshots.com, to name just a few. Since 1991, Terry has offered nature photography workshops and tours in a variety of locations, from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, to Florida, and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness of northern Minnesota. He has taught photo classes and seminars for Tamron, Backpacker magazine, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, Wolf Camera, REI, Dury's, the Nashville Zoo, Cumberland Transit, and Nashville radio station Lightning 100's “Team Green.” With an emphasis on individual instruction, his goal as an instructor has always been to help each client develop his/her own personal vision, and learn how to effectively translate that vision onto film. Terry has also been a guest on the internet broadcast show “Photo Talk Radio”, and was the subject of an Emmy-winning TV feature produced by Nashville Public Television. Terry is the author/photographer of The Warner Parks: Nashville's Natural Legacy, a “coffee table” book celebrating one of the nation's oldest and largest urban green spaces. Published in the fall of 2000, this book is the distillation of over 18 years of Terry's explorations in Nashville's Warner Parks. A personal statement of photographic philosophy: “Perhaps the most important skill a photographer can develop is an awareness of light - sensitivity to its subtleties, its nuances, and its ever-changing moods. These are lessons none of us ever completely master. It's a process more than a product, an odyssey rather than a destination. “And nature photography is about discovery. It's about seeing the subtle magic inherent in familiar places. It teaches us to take a closer look, a slower look, at the world around us. And the closer I look, the longer I look, the more I'm amazed by nature's complexity. I'm humbled by its fragile strength, and inspired by its beauty. “My photographs are not intended to make a “statement”, as such. Rather, they are nothing more (or less) than the product of one man's ongoing process of discovery. And at best, they are a celebration of light: small souvenirs of the way it dances across our planet, touching it here and there, now and then, with ephemeral beauty, grace, and power.”