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John E.
Marriott
A Short Encapsulated History
I first visited the
Canadian Rockies in September 1969 at the ripe
old age of one month old. I would show you the
photos but I don't think I look all that adorable
as a small bald person in the arms of my Grandma on the shores of Lake Louise.
Six years later, I began
photographing in the Canadian Rockies, snapping
shot after shot of what I was sure were
award-winning images on my family's annual
pilgrimages from Salmon Arm, British Columbia in
the station wagon to Banff, Lake Louise and
Jasper. Of course, $20 cameras don't often
produce award-winning shots and neither do most 6
year-olds using them, so while I still have my
old photo albums of bears and moose and so on,
I've decided to keep those for myself too!
Since those inauspicious
beginnings, the camera equipment in my hands has
changed and so have my skills as a nature
photographer.
In 1992, I came across
the incredibly fortunate situation of being hired
by Parks Canada in Banff National Park to go out
and shoot roll after roll of photos of people,
wildlife and scenics in the mountain environment
-- and from that, my career as an outdoor
photographer was born.
In the mid to late 1990s, I
photographed extensively in the
frontcountry and backcountry of the parks in the Canadian Rockies of
Alberta and British Columbia. I also spent
several months over those years photographing
grizzly bears and other wildlife along British
Columbia's West Coast, working out of Knight
Inlet Lodge 500 kilometers north of Vancouver.
The past seven years
have led me to more exotic locations: the Queen
Charlotte Islands and the Inside Passage on sailboat trips,
Yellowstone National Park in the US on a backpacking trip,
Churchill, Manitoba (the home of the polar bear) on a tundra
buggy tour and Scotland and Ireland on an international
adventure. I've also begun regular forays into the
north, to Alaska, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories each
year.
I am not formally
trained as a photographer, but rather have
learned by trial and error as I've gone along. I
have also been lucky enough to have met and forged friendships
with some
incredibly interesting and skilled photographers over the years that I have gleaned
information from: Al Williams, Jeff Waugh,
Alec Pytlowany, Darwin Wiggett, Tom Murphy and Terry Berezan come
to mind. Unfortunately I never did get to meet
the photographer I most wanted to -- Japanese
wildlife photographer Michio Hoshino, who died in Kamchatka,
Russia in 1997.
My business started
eleven years ago and is now based in Canmore, Alberta,
Canada on the edge of Banff National Park. Most
of the work I do is in Western Canada,
particularly in the provincial and national parks
in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and the north. I sell stock
photography -- my images have been published in a
number of magazines including National Geographic Adventure,
Backpacker, Canadian
Geographic, Reader's Digest, Ranger Rick and OWL
and have been used for a wide range of commercial
applications including billboards, brochures,
websites, product packaging and catalogs -- and do assignment
work in Western Canada. My first book, Central
Rockies Mammals, was published
in July 1997 and is now a Canadian bestseller (second edition,
2005), while 1999 saw the
initial launch of this photography website.
In 2002 my business
leapt forward with the investment in a line of 24 different wildlife
and scenic greeting cards, which are featured on www.wildernessmoments.com.
In 2004 I added 2 new cards to the line, 5 more in 2005 and 2 more
in 2007. The cards are now the best-selling greeting cards in
the Canadian Rockies.
And finally, in 2007, I
released my first hardcover coffee table book, Banff
& Lake Louise: Images of Banff National Park, which has
been received with critical acclaim and has quickly become the
best-selling photography book on Banff and is well on its way to
becoming a Canadian bestseller.
My primary hope with this
site is that it will give you a taste for my
style of photography and for what Western Canada
is like, creating in you a longing to visit or
re-visit this magical area and see it like you've
never seen it before. I fell in love with this
place long ago, and want you too to experience
the beauty and grandeur of the Rocky Mountains
and Western Canada and capture the secrets you
discover on a camera.
| Other
Facts and Figures about Me |
| Degree: |
Bachelor of Science in Forestry,
Parks and Wildlife (1994) - University of
British Columbia (Vancouver) and
University of California - Berkeley (San
Franscisco) |
| Cameras: |
Canon EOS 5D and Canon
EOS 1D III |
| Lenses: |
Canon EOS 500 f4 IS, Canon EOS
70-200 f2.8 IS, Canon EOS 28-70mm f2.8, Canon EOS
17-40mm f4 |
| Stock Agencies: |
All Canada Photos (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Getty Images (United States)
Premium Stock (Germany)
Alamy Images (UK) |
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