About Elizabeth Carmel

Photo © 2010 Elizabeth Carmel

ELIZABETH CARMEL is a California-based photographer specializing in unique, expressive landscapes and waterscapes. Her prints combine dramatic photography, vivid colors, and artistic touches to create new, captivating visions of the natural world. Using an ultra-high resolution Hasselblad H3D, she captures the subtle details of nature and transfers them to large prints with stunning clarity. She does her own printing on fine art paper or canvas with long-life pigmented inks. Elizabeth has spent years exploring and photographing the diverse landscapes of the world. Her award-winning images are in numerous galleries and private collections throughout the United States, and were recently selected for display at the Nevada Museum of Art. In recognition of her fine photography and expertise, Elizabeth is one of twelve photographers worldwide honored with the Hasselblad Master Photographer award for 2006.

Photo © 2010 Elizabeth Carmel

Her book, Brilliant Waters: Portraits of Lake Tahoe, Yosemite and the High Sierra, with a foreword by Robert Redford, is currently in its third printing and was recently featured in People magazine. Elizabeth’s second book, The Changing Range of Light, was recently released to much critical acclaim.

Elizabeth lives in Truckee, California with her daughter Abbey, and her Husband, Olof.

About Jerry Dodrill

Photo © 2010 Jerry Dodrill

It was clear early on that Jerry Dodrill was not cut out for a desk job. His career as an adventure and landscape photographer has fostered a lifestyle that the average person might call unconventional. An avid climber of twenty years, he feels equally at home in a rocky bivouac or a soft bed. In college he dropped pre-med classes in favor of fine art and spent weekends scaling Yosemite’s granite walls. Photography was at first a by-product of many adventures, but quickly became a goal of its own as he captured each experience with a concise aesthetic and spiritual light quality that reveals a sense of inspiration and captures the imagination.

Jerry’s adventures have led around the globe. He has climbed all the major walls in Yosemite Valley, at crags across the West, close to a hundred summits in the Sierra, and peaks in Bolivia, Argentina and China. Full embrace of the many disciplines of climbing have led to many adventures and tales best told late at night around a raging campfire.

Photo © 2010 Jerry Dodrill

In 1997 Jerry achieved degrees in both fine art and photography at Pacific Union College (Napa Valley) then worked under acclaimed photographer Galen Rowell in Berkeley. He was soon managing Galen’s gallery and workshops, an amazing experience (akin to a photographers bootcamp), but spending way too much time in the office. After several years he left to pursue his own projects.

Jerry’s dedication has not gone unnoticed. He has won several international awards and has been exhibited in fine galleries such as the Ansel Adams, Mountain Light, Mumm Napa Valley, and Banff Center for Mountain Culture. His clients include The North Face, Vanity Fair, Sunset, Men’s Journal, Outside, Alpinist, Rock & Ice, and Climbing magazines. His work has been featured in many ad campaigns, books, and publications and is represented by Aurora Photos. After running a gallery on California’s North Coast for the past five years, he now resides in the Sonoma County town of Sebastopol, California.