About the Author

Charles Cramer has photographed extensively in Yosemite, and in 1987 he was selected by the National Park Service to be an artist-in-residence. His prints are available internationally through many galleries, and his work has been published by National Geographic Books, the Sierra Club, and the Yosemite Association. He has taught digital imaging for the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops, Palm Beach Workshops, Anderson Ranch, the Lepp Institute, and others. He has been profiled in the magazines Photo Techniques, Photo Vision, and View Camera. He is also included in the book Landscape: The World’s Top Photographers (Rotovision, 2003).

Karl Kroeber is a writer and fine-art photographer with particular interest in the Sierra Nevada and the American Southwest. His photographic work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the journals of The Yosemite Fund, Peninsula Open Space Trust, and Natural Resources Defense Council as well as the magazine Sierra Heritage and the book Yosemite Falls: An American Icon (The Yosemite Fund and the Yosemite Association, 2006). Karl was born and raised in Berkeley, California, and is a third-generation Californian on both sides of his family. For the past thirty-four years he has lived with his wife, Anita, in the house they built in the Santa Cruz Mountains. They have two grown sons, both working artists, and both of whom have hiked the entire 211-mile John Muir Trail.

Scot Miller is a professional photographer whose recent projects have focused on Yosemite, the Maine Woods, and the Texas Hill Country. His photographs have appeared in numerous books and publications, including Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic and Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic. The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s exhibition “Thoreau’s Walden: A Journey in Photographs by Scot Miller” is currently on a national museum tour through 2010. Miller and his wife, Marilyn, live in Dallas, where they own and operate Sun to Moon Gallery, a fine-art photography gallery.

Mike Osborne recently retired after a thirty-year career as a ranger in Yosemite National Park, including eight seasons as a wilderness ranger. Mike has photographed nature for more than thirty-five years. His images have been used in promotional programs and literature supporting The Yosemite Fund and the Yosemite Association. He is also the author of the book Granite, Water, and Light (Yosemite Association and Heyday Books, 2009), an interpretive and photographic paean to the waterfalls of Yosemite Valley.

A native of the East Coast, Keith S. Walklet traded a daily commute (from Connecticut to New York City), and most of his belongings, for a camera and motorcycle, with which he explored the continental United States and Alaska. Arriving in Yosemite National Park in 1984 for “one winter,” he set about documenting its grand scenes and subtle beauty first with 35mm, then 6x7 cm and 4x5 field cameras. The “one winter” became fourteen years and found Walklet overseeing interpretive programs for the primary park concessioner. He is the author/photographer of two Yosemite books, and his work has appeared in practically every medium, including Audubon and Sierra Club calendars, Backpacker magazine, and National Geographic.