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Ian Shive is a nature and conservation photographer based in Los Angeles, California and author of The National Parks: Our American Landscape. He is most known for his images of America's National Parks. Shive also appears in the series Wild Exposure which begins airing on Current TV in late-July 2009.

Shive is an emerging member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Washington, D.C. based group whose membership represents the highest ethics and standards in conservation photography. Shive is a gold place recipient at the 2008 Folio Awards — Eddie’s & Ozzie’s for his National Parks magazine story Ghosts of Steamtown, and placed gold in the category of “Best Use of Photography, Association or Non-Profit.”

Many of Shive’s images have appeared in the world’s most prestigious publications including Time magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Outside magazine, National Geographic, Popular Science, Popular Photography and many others.

As a leading chronicler of America’s national parks, Shive shot two covers for National Parks magazine in 2008 of Big Bend National Park, Texas and Denali National Park, Alaska. In 2009 his image of Glacier National Park, Montana, also was featured on the cover of National Parks magazine. and his images of the parks have appeared worldwide in other NPS-related publications. Monde de la Photographie, a Paris, France-based photography publication compared Shive to Ansel Adams for his National Park imagery and many consider Shive to be “picking up the torch” of where Adams left off. His images have appeared worldwide in 2008 including in China, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, France, Italy, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Mexico, Canada, Australia, India and many others.

Shive has also worked extensively with other non-profits including The Nature Conservancy and the National Parks Conservation Association.

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