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Andy Biggs is an avid adventurer, conservationist, teacher, and outdoor photographer whose photography celebrates the African landscape and its rich wildlife, people, and culture. With a deep respect and understanding for African wildlife, Andy unfolds the world of the Serengeti onto our doorstep with striking emotional depth. His photographic safaris allow the traveler to not only enhance their understanding of photography, lighting, and wildlife, but to develop a life-long admiration for Africa 's beauty and culture.

Banana Republic recently used Andy's photographs as the cornerstone of their Urban Safari campaign, and his images were seen in all 750 stores around the globe, as well as in their billboards, catalogs and annual report. Andy was also the winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year in the 'Wild Places' category in 2008 and a highly commended in the 'Creative Visions of Nature' category in 2007.

Andy launched Gura Gear in 2008, in an attempt to deliver lightweight camera bags to the market. Andy was looking for a lightweight camera bag to hold all of his photographic gear, and there was nothing desirable on the market that suited his needs. After spending 2 years with many prototypes, the Gura Gear Kiboko bag was born.

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14Oct2009

Behind the scenes photos from our Lightroom and the Fine Art Digital Print workshop

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 01:26PM

Indoor teaching session on fine art digital printing

On our first afternoon, we saw the first snowfall of the year up near the Santa Fe ski basin

Trevor, our resident gear hound, putting his Hasselbad to work

Liftoff at the Balloon Fiesta

We spent an afternoon taking a nice hike near Georgia O'Keefe's home at Abiquiu, New Mexico

Andy

Santa Fe workshop followup

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 10:01AM

I have just returned from a workshop that I co-led with friend and adventure photographer Michael Clark. The workshop was located in the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and over a 4-day period we had 4 outdoor photo shoots and 4 indoor lectures. The outdoor shoots were a mix between the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque and landscape locations near Santa Fe. The indoor lectures were split between Adobe Lightroom's Library and Development modules and ending up with a fine art digital printing lecture with hands-on printing.

We had 16 participants with both Michael and I as instructors, as well as 1 assistant. We based the workshop at Hotel Santa Fe, and we couldn't be any happier with their facilities, proximity to good culture and dining, as well as service.

I took both still photographs as well as high definition video during the workshop, and I have to say that shooting video is a whole different ball game. This was my first time to shoot any video, and the first thing that I learned was that I need to storyboard what I want to shoot before I even turn the camera on.

I am still processing video and some of the images from the workshop, and will post a few behind-the-scenes shots soon. Michael and I are working on doing similar workshops in Santa Fe in 2010, and we are putting the plans in place right now. Here are a few photos from the Balloon Fiesta:

Nikon D700, 14-24mm @ 14mm, 1/40 @ f/3.5, ISO 1250

Nikon D700, 14-24mm @ 18mm, 1/1250 @ f/8, ISO 400

Michael, Linda and Jim

D700, 24-70mm, 1/250 @ f/8, ISO 400. Pop-up fill-flash (notice the round shadow at the bottom? Don't use the lens hood when using the built-in flash on the D700 or D300!)

D700, 14-24mm @ 24mm, 1/250 @ f/5.6, ISO 800

D700, 24-70mm, 1/800 @ f/8, ISO 400

Andy

Santa Fe Photowalk

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 09:31AM

I am organizing a photowalk in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 7, 2009. Since I am running a workshop with Michael Clark beginning on October 8, I figured it would be fun to organize a casual and fun photowalk of Santa Fe the day before our workshop begins.

The photowalk is open to anybody who would like to join us. Just bring along a camera, comfortable shoes, water and whatever else makes sense. We will meet up at 4mp at the gazebo in the Plaza, and will go from there. We don't have a pretermined path to walk, so please don't be late. In fact, just show up early and be ready to go by 4pm. I am confident that we will end up at a restaurant with good food and margaritas at sundown. :-)

You can read the offical photowalk information on the Photowalklist.com web site:

Santa Fe Photowalk, October 7, 2009

and followed by

Adobe Lightroom and the Fine Art Digital Print, October 8-11, 2009

Only a few spaces left for the workshop

Andy