Nature and Aquatic Photographer Extraordinaire - R. Valentine Atkinson
www.valatkinson.com/

Twenty years ago I started taking a camera on fishing trips after realizing that there was a lot more to angling than catching fish. Over the years I have learned to combine these two passions into my life's work.

My two books fulfill a dream of enabling me to share these passions with you. I've now traveled to 27 countries on assignments and I must confess that in recent years the challenge of making a really great image has started to transcend my desire to catch fish. However, fly fishing and photography go very well together. The secret is knowing when to put down the rod and pick up the camera.

Gyotaku Original Fish Prints by Mya DeRyan
www.TheFramedFish.com

Mya enjoys blending the 18th century Japanese folk art of Gyotaku with modern day fine art expressions. It has culminated into a unique fish art with an interesting story to accompany the profound qualities and unique detail of these beautiful fish.

Mya uses only museum conservation quality materials for matting and framing each original fish rubbing.

Richard Lithgow
www.troutprint.com

Richard Lithgow’s original paintings reflect his reverence for the wild. “ I try to paint the textural variations of light and water in the woodland setting. I think I succeed when the interplay of sunlight on a rising trout or the glistening of a fish’s scales underwater are accentuated to capture action transfixed.”

Hours of research and keen observation along with an occasional cast upstream precede each work.

 

W. McLaughlin
www.blueloonfinearts.com