Dan has been documenting the natural world as a full time professional for over twenty years. In 1990 and 1997, Dan was awarded with 1st runner-up in the animal portrait division in the prestigious BBC "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" competition. He was also awarded first Place in the landscape category of the 2003 Nature's Best photo competition.

His photography has been featured in galleries such as Nikon House, NY and the Natural History Museum in London. He is a regular contributor to natural history publications worldwide, such as Audubon, National Wildlife, Sierra, Wildlife Conservation and Terre Sauvage. In December 2002 he had the cover story and sixteen-page photo essay on snowy owls for National Geographic. He is also the sole photographer for nine books.

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"Cheetah Running"
This image was shot in the Masa Mara Game reserve back in 1996. At the time I was working on Cheetahs for 30 consecutive days. This mother cheetah was hunting Thompson's Gazelles and had made several attempts to make a kill two days prior to this image being taken. Cheetahs often fail at their hunting attempts and small cheetah cubs can make life very difficult for their mother since they don't conceal themselves from the prey their mother is hunting. That was the case in several attempts this mother had made but this image was taken as she began a successful hunt, killing one Thompson's Gazelle.

"Mother and Cub Brown Bears"
The Brown Bears of coastal Alaska are some of the most impressive animals I've ever photographed and like all grizzlies, which is what brown bears are, they can be dangerous. However, coastal grizzlies are not like the interior grizzlies of Montana, Wyoming and interior Canada. Since brown bears have such tremendous food sources, specifically salmon, they are much more predictable and easy going. This mother and her two cubs allowed me to photograph her with a long telephoto lens from a distance of nearly 120 yards as they rested on the bank of river.

These Emperor Penguins look as if they're having a good time but in reality this small group was part of several thousands adults that had recently lost their chicks to a rain and ice storm. My goal in visiting this colony was to photograph the recently hatched chicks standing on the feet of one of their parents. Emperor Penguin chicks spend the first few weeks of their lives huddling beneath the feathers and on top of the feet of their male parent. When we arrived we found thousands of small chicks from 3-6 inches in length scattered all over the ice where they had died. I was told by a biologist that an ice and rain storm had blown in and drenched the small birds. Weather of this nature is one of the most deadly of all killers to baby animals of any kind in the wilds.