National Parks at Night
Alumni Spotlight
We’re pretty lucky. Some great photographers have joined us on our night photography adventure workshops and conferences. From the passionate to the professional, they’re all incredibly talented, and we like to help share that talent with the world. Below is a consistently updated list of the accomplishments of these fine folks we’ve come to know over the last several years—from books to exhibits, from awards to publications, and more.
Patti Blake
In April 2024 Patti and her solar eclipse photography were featured by News Photographer, the magazine of the National Press Photographers Association. See “My Stories of Two Total Solar Eclipses are Night and Day.”
Laura DelPrato
In April 2024 Laura was a guest speaker at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, where she presented “The Art & Science of Light Painting.”
Heather M. Wendelboe
From March 2 to April 14, 2024, Heather’s night photograph “All Trails Lead to Mato Tipila” was featured in the Western Spirit Juried Art Show at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum in Wyoming. This wasn’t Heather’s first collaboration with the museum, as its permanent collection houses her photograph “Stagecoach” (which incidentally is also the cover image of her husband C.M. Wendelboe’s novel The Man Who Hated Hickok).
Therese Iknoian
In February 2024, after winning three medals in their annual competition, Therese was named Travel Photographer of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association.
Carrie Culp
In December 2023, Carrie’s night photo of the old Kelso Post Office won the Director’s Choice award in the “Dusk Till Dawn” photography exhibition at Minnesota’s Praxis Gallery. Carrie created the image during our 2022 workshop in Mojave National Preserve.
Sandra Jungling
In August 2023 Sandra celebrated the publication of her first book, a monograph of night images titled Abandoned Arizona: Relics of the Past. Check it out on Amazon.
Therese Iknoian
Therese won third place overall in the 2024 Minimalist Photography Awards for night photography. She photographed her winning image of a light-painted Moai on our February 2023 trip to Easter Island.
Laura DelPrato
Laura was a YouTube Live guest of Light Painting Brushes. In the episode (“What Is Light Painting?”) she gave a detailed, philosophical and scientific account of how she approaches light painting and light writing.
Wendi Kennedy
Wendi’s pensive image of a local artisan in Morocco, which she photographed on our trip to the country in 2022, was published on the March 2023 cover of Photoshop User magazine.
Therese Iknoian
Therese won a gold medal in the North American Travel Journalists Association awards for a photograph of Bodie Island Lighthouse, and a bronze for a photo essay on Outer Banks lighthouses, both of which she worked on during our 2022 workshop to the area. The Bodie photo was also accepted into a juried exhibit in the Sierra Nevada.
Daphni Ames
Upon her first time submitting for a show, Daphni’s image “Yosemite Star Trails” was selected for the People and Places exhibit with the Santa Cruz Art League.
Jamie Thompson
In November 2022 Jamie was honored for reaching the milestone of having volunteered 100 hours of service at her favorite place, Mount Rainer National Park.
Marsha Wilcox
Marsha’s astro photograph of the Horse Head and Flame nebulae was chosen to be part of the Member Show at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.
Michael Matthews
Michael’s abstract photos complement a poet’s words in the book Gibbous Moon, released in October 2021.
Suzanne Lovett
Suzanne was awarded “PhotoPiller of the Day” honors for her image of star circles over Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls. She photographed this with scouting aid from PhotoPills, on the way home from our PhotoPills Bootcamp workshop in Joshua Tree National Park.
Klaus Peter-Statz
Klaus was invited to virtually present his latest night photography work for the prestigious NY Photo Salon, hosted by the School of Visual Arts. His presentation can be viewed on YouTube.
Therese Iknoian
Therese won multiple honors in the North American Travel Journalists Association’s Travel Media Awards. She earned a gold medal for her photo of a sunset silhouette of a young camel driver in Morocco, a silver for a night photo of the Marshall Point Lighthouse that she shot on last year’s NPAN workshop in Mid-Coast Maine, and a bronze for her night photo of an abandoned Ferris wheel in Chernobyl.
Jürgen Lobert
Two of Jürgen’s photographs were chosen for the Praxis Photo Art Center’s juried exhibit “After Dark.” His image “Skyline Crescent” won awarded an honorable mention, and “Lathe Arch with Snow-Capped Sierras” was also chosen to appear in the exhibit.
Neil Bennett
Neil’s photograph “Bodie Firehall” was chosen to appear in the Praxis Photo Art Center’s juried exhibit “After Dark.”
Jason Katz
Jason’s Milky Way photograph “Over the Rainbow” was chosen to appear in the Praxis Photo Art Center’s juried exhibit “After Dark.” He created the image during our Lassen Volcanic National Park workshop in 2019.
Therese Iknoian
Therese’s image of a young camel driver in Morocco won third place in The Washington Post annual travel photo contest. Read a little about how she created the image on HI Travel Tales blog.
Michael Matthews
Michael’s photography series “Partituren” was chosen to be part of a dual-artist exhibit at Fotoseptiembre 2020.
Hadley Johnson
“Ascending Cinder Cone Volcano To The Milky Way,” a photograph Hadley made during our 2019 workshop at Lassen Volcanic National Park, was selected for publication in LensWork magazine’s upcoming book Our Magnificent Planet.
Martha Hale
Coast Portland featured Martha in a Q&A on their blog. The piece covers many aspects of her night photography work, including her thoughts on gear, light painting, and adventures in the dark outdoors. See “Night Photography: A Q&A With Martha Hale.”
Heather M. Wendelboe
Heather’s work on her “Wild West Automotive Astroscapes” series was featured in a first-person, 8-page article in Issue 75 (pages 74-81) of Amateur Photography magazine. One of the images in the piece is “Roadside Reflection on Star Trail Solitude,” which she created on our Rocky Mountain National Park workshop in 2018.
Jason Katz
Two of Jason’s prints were selected to appear in an exhibit titled “The Real to the Surreal” at The Menino Arts Center in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. He created one of the photographs, “Present; Not Here” (right), during our Rocky Mountain National Park workshop in 2018.
Michael Matthews
Twenty of Michael’s abstract photos composed the exhibit “Partituren” at the Kunstraum of the Kulturfabrik in Hoyerswerda, Germany, from January to March 2020. All the images were from his series “Partituren” and “Time Slices.”
Therese Iknoian
Therese won two medals in the 2019 North American Travel Journalists Association awards: a gold in the category of “Portrait, people—online” and a silver in “Featured photo, illustration.” The latter was for an image she made of a bird flying over the harbor in Essaouira during our photography tour of Morocco.
Katrina Jannen
Three of Katrina’s photographs were included in the juried exhibit “The Architecture of Time,” which opened in January 2020 at the Boston Society for Architecture.
Beth Holland
In December 2019, 20 of Beth’s photos were chosen for a permanent exhibit titled “After Hours” at Fountain Place, a newly restored I.M. Pei office tower in downtown Dallas. She made 17 of the images at National Parks a Night workshops, including the one at left at Capitol Reef National Park.
Rachna Jain
In October 2019, two of Rachna’s photographs, including a night image she created on our Outer Banks workshop in 2019, were included in an exhibit titled “The Emergence of Artistry” at the ArtSeen Gallery in Rockville, Maryland.
Angela Weir
Angela won first place in the “Hand of Man” category of the photo competition at the 2019 Smoky Mountain Foto Fest. She made the winning image, titled “Midnight Restoration,” at a National Parks at Night-run excursion to Nelson Ghost Town during NANPA Nature Photography Summit earlier in the year. Later that fall, a print of the image appeared in an exhibit at the Fort Worth (Texas) Community Arts Center.
Sherry Pincus
In September 2019, Sherry was a featured speaker and photographer at the Develop Photo Week exhibit at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City. Her talk was titled “Backpacking: Photography off the Beaten Path.”
Wendi Kennedy
As a result of a contest, Wendi’s night photo of Boston Harbor was selected to be the April photo in Webster First Federal Credit Union’s 2020 calendar.
Sandra Jungling
A series of Sandra’s night photos of Arizona’s Flintstones Bedrock City roadside attraction were published in the June/July 2019 issue of Route Magazine, in an article titled “Bye, Bye Bedrock.”
Karen Greatti
In March 2019, Karen launched her first photography website. It features the range of her work, including portraiture, sports and landscape. Visit karengreatti.com.
Bennett Christiansen
Bennett’s photography work, including some he did on the NPAN Rocky Mountain National Park workshop, was covered in a profile feature in Maine’s Seacoast Sunday and New Hampshire’s Portsmouth Herald newspapers. See “Kittery Point teen photographer gives voice to environment.” Also, in April 2019 Bennett’s work was featured in a solo exhibit at the Just Us Chickens Gallery in Kittery, Maine.
Martha Hale
Martha won the Thunder on the Mountain Photo Contest, run by the Vulcan Park and Museum, with a night image of fireworks over the Statue of Liberty replica statue in Birmingham, Alabama.
Hadley Johnson
Hadley’s six-image project, “At One with the Universe,” was selected for inclusion in the recently released book Seeing in SIXES, 2017 by the editors of LensWork magazine. Five of the images were from Hadley’s participation in our Joshua Tree National Park workshop in spring of 2017.
Julianne Koza
Julianne won first place in the Sunset/Night Sky category, along with Best in Show, in the 2017 Fall Photo show of the Chaparral Artists organization in the Morongo Basin (home to Joshua Tree National Park). Her winning photo was one she made in Alabama Hills while shooting on our Eastern Sierra workshop last October.
SteveN Winker
In November 2017, Steven announced the release of his photography book Ten Years on the Road, a collection of his most memorable experiences and favorite photos from a decade of travels.
Wendi Kennedy
In September 2017, Wendi’s “Moonrise Over Mesquite Sand Dunes,” which she created on our 2016 Death Valley workshop, was selected for display in the “Multiples” exhibition at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, Vermont.
Sherry Pincus
In the summer of 2017, Sherry released her photography book Mountains Beckon, created during her time studying with the B&H Portfolio Development program. Also, in July three of her prints from the project were part of a group show at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.
Klaus Peter-Statz
Klaus participated in the B&H Portfolio Development program in 2014-15 and 2016-17. His prints from the program appeared in the participants’ show at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City in 2017 and at the finalists’ show in 2015. During that time his work was also displayed in the 2015 Summer Art Exhibition at Deutsches Haus at NYU.
