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Day Trip to Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai

Posted on April 29, 2017, 1:14 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.

While nowadays visitors come mostly to see the bears, Katmai National Park was established as a National Monument in 1918 to protect the site of the 1912 Novarupta eruption, the largest volcanic blast of the twentieth century. It buried a valley in pumice and ash and its surface was steaming with thousands of fumaroles, hence […]

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Grizzlies in Autumn, Katmai National Park

Posted on April 22, 2017, 10:16 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.

Most visitors to Katmai National Park come for bear viewing during July to see thousands of salmon jumping over Brooks Falls, sometimes straight into a waiting bear’s mouth. The autumn is a much less known time to visit, but it is also great, providing a quite different experience. Brooks Camp is one of the most […]

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Treasured Lands wins IPPY and IBPA Benjamin Franklin book awards

Posted on April 14, 2017, 11:58 pm, by QT Luong, under Announcements.

I am honored that Treasured Lands has won not one, but two of the most respected book award competitions in the independent publishing world. This was especially gratifying because although I have had three books of photography published before, Treasured Lands is the first for which I was in total control. Besides providing the photographs […]

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QT Luong was the first to photograph all America's 63 National Parks - in large format. He received the Ansel Adams Award for Photography from the Sierra Club, the Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks from the National Parks Conservation Association, and was featured in the film The National Parks: America's Best Idea. His photographs are extensively published and have been the subject of five books including Treasured Lands (winner of twelve national and international book awards), many newspaper and magazine feature articles, solo gallery and museum exhibits across the U.S. and abroad.

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