Dave Welling is a full time, professional wildlife and nature photographer. He began his career in 1987.

Mr. Welling specializes in wildlife and environmental images with extensive coverage of reptiles, big cats including Siberian and Bengal tigers and snow leopards, wolves, raptors, and a wide range of other species. He has extensive image files of landscapes and intimate scenics of the western U.S., Alaska, northwestern Canada, Venezuela and east Africa.

His images have appeared in numerous magazines including National Geographic Adventure, National Wildlife's Ranger Rick and Your Big Backyard, Nature's Best, Outdoor Photographer, Birder's World, Living Bird and Natural History Magazine; calendars from Sierra, Audubon, Inner Reflections, National Wildlife, Northword Press and World Wildlife Fund; and books from National Geographic, Capstone Press, Farcountry Press and Voyageurs' Press.

Mr. Welling writes photo and text articles for magazines and provides photo equipment field test articles for Outdoor Photographer. He also teaches nature photography and has won numerous photographic awards including first place and numerous honorable mentions in BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Nature's Best photo contests.

He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and a charter member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA).

Mr. Welling can be reached at [email protected] and has a website with over 350 images in his online portfolio at www.agpix.com/davewelling. He lives in southern California with his wife, Lenna, an adopted stray dog, Trouble, and his resident guard cat, Stealth.