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Andy Long
First Light
P.O. Box 36201
Lakewood, CO 80227 USA


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Stock Collection: 5,000 - 15,000 photos

General Subject Areas: Wildlife, Nature, Scenics, Wildflowers, Landscape. Waterfowl, Birds, Wildlife, Animal Tracks, Berries, Ghost Towns, Outdoor Activities, Balloons. Sports (limited)

Awards: 1997 Photographer of the Year Award presented by The RoseWater Network; Part of nationwide traveling exhibit entitled Reaching Out, Reaching Within, 1997; Art Wolfe Invitational Exhibit, 1997

Books / Publication Credits: National Geographic TV Birder's World 5280 ASPCA Birder's World Boardsailor Chicago Wilderness Creation Illustrated Diver F8 Florida Racing Weekly Home and Away (AAA) Home Furnishings Montana Magazine Montana Outdoors Mountain Country Life Nature Friend Nature Photographer Outdoor Life Persimmon Hill Photo Media Scholastic Shutterbugs Outdoor and Nature Photography Sierra Photographers Focus Ski Times Soccer America Sports Arena Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine The Soccer Paper U.S. Ski Racing Magazine Upland Almanac Weightlifting Illustrated Wind Rider Denver Post St. Petersburg Evening Independent Jackson Hole Guide Tampa Tribune Orlando Sentinel The Grogan Report Photo in ad for Rollei cameras F8 and Being There First Light Wildlife Detectives Prentice-Hall college biology textbook supplements Ancient Images Note cards

Geographic Coverage: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Falkland Islands, Chile, Montana

Future Travel: 2008 - Falkland Islands, Iceland, Alaska northern lights

Other services: Editorial, writing, contest judging, workshop leader, seminar presenter

Affiliations: Andy Long is a wildlife and nature photographer who has been doing photography professionally for more than 17 years. He is an assistant editor of Nature Photographer magazine and has done seminars around the country for the magazine. He also was a presenter at the NEw England Council of Camera Clubs annual conference. Photography and writing has been in more than 30 publication and for more than 10 other clients. Also involved with volunteer work at a spine and head rehabilitation hospital working with patients by helping them gain an interest in photography by way of programs and helping them take pictures on various outings.

Typical Stock Photo Examples:
ALASKA
Anchorage
·Ceremonial start to 2006 Iditirod
Coldfoot
·Trucks at truck stop
·Sign showing temperature extremes (-85 to +97)
Dalton Highway
·Arctic Circle sign
·Winter Landscapes
·Highway department work station and signs
Coldfoot
·Trucks at truck stop
Dutch Harbor, Aleutians
·Bald Eagles in multiple settings (see details under BIRDS)
·Russian Orthodox Church
·Beached Orca - including shots of resuce and pushing back into the water
Fairbanks
·World Ice Sculpting Championships (2005 and 2006)
Haines
·Bald eagles (see details below under BIRDS)
·Fishing boats docked in harbor and close-ups of nets and traps with snow on them
·Totem poles
·Aerial shots of glacial fields and mountains flying between Haines and Juneau
·Morning scenic of Chilkoot Lake with fog
Kenai
·Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church
Lake Clark National Park
·Alaska Brown Bears
·Puffins
North Pole
·Images at Santa Clause House
Northern Lights
Ninilchik
·Russian Orthodox Church
·Old fishing village
Portage Glacier
·Icebergs and Scenics of the Glacier
·Seward
·Fish cleaning at boat docks
·Fishing boats
·Glaicers in Kenai Fjords
·Glacial Cruise boats
·Alaska Marine Aquarium
Sitka
·St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral
·Totem poles
·Various shots around town of historic sites
Valdez Area
·Alaska Pipeline - including Wrangell's in background
·Bridal Veil Falls
·Thompson Pass
Wiseman
·Cabins and signs

ARIZONA
Saguaro National Park
Sonora Desert Musuem


CANADA
Barren-lands tundra of Northwest Territories
·Macro work of ground color in fall
·Bearberry leaves
·Ground lichen and mushrooms
·Amonita mushrooms
·Caribou on the tundra

CHILE
Travel images from Santiago
Travel images from Punta Arenas


COLORADO
Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge
·Low water levels in lakes
Brainerd Lake scenics
Churches
·Air Force Academy Chapel
·Light of the World Catholic
·St. Patrick's Mission Church
Cumbres-Toltec Narrow Gauge Train
·Shots of and from train that goes from Antonito, CO to Chama, NM in the fall
Estes Park
·Morning shots of Stanley Hotel with lights around building
Ghost Towns
Golden
·Statues around town
Great Sand Dunes National Park
Idaho Springs
·Historic old buildings
Maroon Bells
·Fall Color
Rocky Mountains
·Sunrise and sunset scenics
·Aspens in the fall - various locations and subjects
·Selective cutting in national forests
·Dramatic winter scenics of frost and snow-covered trees
Yankee Boy Basin
·Wildflowers in foreground and mountains in background
·Wildflowers, lake and mountains
·Wildflowers and waterfalls
·Mount Sneffels and reflection in lake

FALKLAND ISLANDS
Penguins, albatross and other wildlife
Travel images from Stanley


FLORIDA
Corkscrew Preserve
Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge
Egmont Key Lighthouse
Habitat shots of cypress wetlands
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) travel images
Venice Rookery
ICE – Ice Sculpture exhibit at Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee


MINNESOTA
Fall color in and around boundary waters area - Ely
International Wolf Center - Ely
Waterfall and landscapes along North Shore area of Lake Superior


MONTANA
Glacier National Park
Hamilton – various travel shots of historic buildings
Lewis & Clark Caverns


NEW MEXICO
Bandalier National Monument
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
·Flocks of snow geese taking off in various settings (some with very dramatic lighting)
·Various wintering birds and waterfowl
Eaves Movie Ranch
Fort Union National Monument
Lava beds
Pecos National Monument
Pueblo Reservation sites
·Acoma
·Taos
·Santa Fe
Spanish mission churches from many locations including
·Ranchos de Taos
·San Juan Pueblo
·El Sanctuario de Chimayo
·Isleta Pueblo
·Laguna Pueblo
·San Jose de Garcia, Las Trampas
·Taos
Three Rivers Petroglyphs


NORTH CAROLINA
Blue Ridge Parkway
·Fall color scenics along North Carolina portion of Parkway
·Sunrise shots from atop Roan Mountain showing mountain stacks and valley fog
·Scenes of old barns and cabins in various setting
·Shots of barn with tobacco hanging inside drying
·Lake, morning fog and trees in fall color
·Mountain ash in full bloom


OREGON COAST
Lighthouses
Oregon Coast Aquarium
Sea Stacks
Bridges
Coastal Scenics
Covered Bridges
Tidepool Life
Fishing Marinas


UTAH
Arches National Park
·Various formations in different lighting conditions
·Dramatic storm cloud lighting on Balanced Rock
·Sunset silhouette work on various formations (some with sun and some without)
·Sun and moon silhouetting formations
·Cryptobiotic ground growth
·Rainbow next to Turret Arch
Star trail images of numerous formations
Bryce Canyon National Park
·Various formations in different lighting conditions
·Petroglyphs from various locations
Canyonlands National Park
·Mesa Arch at Sunrise
Zion National Park
·Shots of various formations
·View of tree mirroring outline shape of formationShots of various formations
·View of tree mirroring outline shape of formation


VIRGINIA
Mabry Mill in fall
Shenandoah National Park
Fall color scenics along road and on trails
Williamsburg, VA and surrounding area


WASHINGTON
Mt. Rainier National Park
·Cascades and Waterfalls
·Cascades with wildflowers next to it
·False Hellebore with dew drop on end of leaf
·Foggy morning with trees and lake
·Reflection Lake and Mt. Rainier
·Wildflowers in foreground and mountain in background


WYOMING
Grand Teton National Park
·Barn and dramatic storm clouds
·Grand Teton reflected in various windows
·Scenics of range with old barns in foreground
·Snake River Overlook and fog and clouds over river
·View of Grand Teton framed in cattle chute
·Scenics of range with fall color at Oxbow Bend in foreground
·Sunrise at Reflecting Pond
Yellowstone National Park
·Winter in Yellowstone scenics
·Thermals
·Shots of new growth where fire took place
·Trumpeter swans along the Madison River

BIRDS
Bird Banding - banding of migratory song birds in Colorado
American Kestrel - male and female
Bald Eagles
·Bald Eagles feeding on salmon
·Bald Eagle flight shots
·Singles and groups sitting in trees
·Head shots
·Including view from below of one calling out and seeing the roof of its beak
·Full-frame singles sitting in tree
·Silhouettes
·Pair sitting on nest
·Bald eagle sitting on cross of Russian Orthodox Church in Dutch Harbor, AK
·Massed together feeding on salmon scraps
Belted Kingfisher sitting on a drainage turning wheel
Black Browed Albatross - Falkland Islands
Black-Capped Chickadee
Black-throated Wren - Falkland Islands
Bluebirds
·Western
·Mountain
·Bluebird eggs and bluebird babies in nest box
Burrowing owls
Caracara
·Crested
·Striated - including images of raiding a penguin nest - Falkland Islands
Cardinals - male and female
Chachalaca
Cooper's Hawk
·Cooper's hawk head shots (rehab center)
Downy Woodpecker
Falkland Skua - Falkland Islands
Falkland Thrush - Falkland Islands
Great-Horned Owls
·Newborn owl in nest
·Owl being captured by a biologist (injured)
·Newborn owl and morther in nest
Green jay
Harris Hawks
Killdeer Eggs
King Cormorant - Falkland Islands
Kiskadee
Loggerhead Shrike
Long tail grackle
Mockingbird
Orchard oriole
Osprey
·Osprey hovering above nest
·Feeding on fish
·Mating
Painted bunting
Penguins - Falkland Islands
·King - courtship, with babies
·Rockhoppers
·Gentoo
·Macaroni
·Magellanic
Pygmy owl
Pyrrhuloxia - male and female
Quail - Bob white
Quail - Scaled
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawks
·Sitting on post with food under-foot
·Head-shots (rehab center)
Red-Winged Blackbirds
·Red-wing babies
·Red-wing mother feeding babies
Roadrunners
Robin
Rufous-Sided Towhee
Sage Grouse on the lek
·Sage grouse strutting / displaying during mating season
Sandhill Cranes
·Sandhills standing in water at first light
·Sandhill flight shots
·Courtship dancing
Stellar's Jay
Swainson's Hawk
Thrasher - Curve billed
Thrasher - Long billed
White winged dove
Whooping Cranes
Wild Turkey
Woodpecker - Golden fronted
Woodpecker - Ladder-backed
Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers
Yellow-Headed Blackbirds

WILDLIFE
Alaska Brown Bears
·Bears Clamming
·Bears Fighting
·Bears Mating
·Bears running in creek
·Extreme close-ups
Alligators
Badgers
·Includes six-week old newborns
·Coming out of hole with prairie dog
Beaver on and around a lodge making repairs
Bighorn Sheep
·Behavior of ewe rubbing head up a rams neck
·Rams butting heads
·Head shots
·Six-month olds in various poses
·Young sitting with ram
·Rams doing lip curls
Black Bears
·Sitting on picnic table eating
Black-Footed Ferrets
·In a captive setting in breeding pens prior to release into the wild
·Shots of the pens being held in
Bobcat
Caribou
·Chewing on shed antlers to ingest calcium and other minerals
·Standing by water
Coyotes
·Coyote Pouncing on food
·Coyote and vole (field mouse) staring at each other
·Coyote Head shot yawning
·Coyote pups (wild)
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Elk
·Bugling and other rut season behavior
·Poached elk being worked on by national park rangers
Harbor Seals
Leopard Lizard
Moose
Mountain Goats
·Newborn (one-month old) with ewe
·Newborn by itself
·Three month olds - alone and with mother
·Adults standing on rock outcrop with blue sky behind
·Head shots
·Odd behavior of standing up on back legs and jumping
·Habitat shots - sitting on rock outcrop with mountain scenic behind
Mule Deer
·Buck jumping over a fence
·Sparring
·Head shots
·Orca -beached; including shots of resuce and pushing back into the water
Pikas
Prairie Dogs
Pronghorn Antelope
Red Foxes
Ribbon Snake
Sea Otters
Southern Sea Lion - Falkland Islands
Texas Ground Squirrel
Texas Tortoise
Wolves
·Arctic Wolves (taken at International Wolf Center - Ely, MN)
·Howling
Yellow-Bellied Marmots
·Including extreme close-up of carcass (see teeth formation)

WATERFOWL
Anhinga
Avocets
Bahama Pintail
Barrow's Goldeneye
Black-Crowned Night Herons
· Yawning with tongue out
Black Skimmers
Blue-Winged Teal
Brown Pelicans
Buffelhead
Canada Geese – including newborns
Canvasbacks
Chiloe Wigeon
Crested Duck - Falkland Islands
Cinnamon Teal
Common Mergansers
Coots – including newborns
Cormorants
Dolphin Gull - Falkland Islands
Eared Grebes
·Parents on the nest with eggs
·Series of shots of a newborn hatching
·Includes shot of beak breaking through shell
·Fresh out of shell still wet
European Shelduck
Gadwalls
Great Blue Herons
·Catching a fish
·In breeding plumage
·Dramatic side-lighting with black background
·Close-up head shots
·On nest with young
·Mating
·In flight with nest material
Great Egrets
·Sitting in mangrove tree with blue sky behind
·Series of shots preening
·Close-up head shots
·Very tight on body - feather patterns
·Displaying breeding plumage
Green Herons
·Feeding – Impact into water
Ibises
·White Faced
·Glossy
·White
Kelp Geese - Falkland Islands
King Eider
Kittiwakes on nest with young
Laughing Gulls
Lesser Yellowlegs
Little Blue Herons
Mallards
Mandarin Duck
Oystercatchers
Pie-Billed Grebes
Pied Oystercatcher- Falkland Islands
Pintails
Piping Plover
Puffin - Horned
Puffin - Tufted
Red-Crested Pochard
Red-Headed Ducks
Reddish Egrets
Rhinoceros Auks
Ring Neck Ducks
Ringed Teal
Roseate Spoonbills
Rosy Billed Pochard
Royal Terns
Scaups
Shovelers
Snow Geese
·Mass take-off from corn fields
·Mass take-off from water
·In water with very orange sky before sunrise and reflecting into water
·Flight shots (full-frame)
·Immatures still with blue plumage
Snowy Egrets
Speckled Teal
Stemer Duck - Falkland Islands
Tri-colored Herons
Trumpeter Swans
Upland Geese - Falkland Islands
White Pelicans
Willets
Wilson's Phalarope
Wood Ducks
Wood Storks
Yellow-billed Pintail - Falkland Islands
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron

WILDFLOWERS - Macro photography of various wildflower species including:
Bee Plant
Bistort
Black headed daisy
Blue Flax
Calypso Orchids
Chocolate Lily - Alaska
Columbia Lily (also called Tiger Lily)
Colorado blue columbines
Cornstalk
Cow Parsnip
Evening primrose
Fremont Geranium
Globeflower
Green Gentian
Kings crown
Lupine
Mariposa Lily
Marsh Marigold
Monkeyflower
Monkshood
Mountain Dryad
Paintbrush
·Indian paintbrush
·Magenta paintbrush
·Narrowleaf paintbrush
·Pink paintbrush
·Rosy paintbrush
Pasqueflowers
Penstemon
Phlox
Pine Spiderwort
Rhododendrons
Queens crown
Salsify
Shooting stars
Shrubby cinquefoil
·With frost around edge of petals
Snow lilies
Sunflowers
·Next to fence post with wire wrapped around
·Field of flowers with horses in the field
·Amongst aspens
·Flowers, split rail fence and mountains
·Backlit
·Fields
·Yellow flower blue sky
Tasselflower
Wild iris
Wood Lily
Fields of wildflowers in the foreground and mountain peaks in the background
·Yankee Boy Basin, CO
Various wildflowers in foreground with waterfalls in the scene
·Yankee Boy Basin, CO
·Mount Rainier NP. WA
Artistic images of flowers made while zooming the camera lens

BERRIES
Blueberries (taken in barrenlands tundra of NW Territories)
Cranberries (taken in barrenlands tundra of NW Territories)
·Among bearberry leaves (turned to red of fall)
·Among ground lichen and small mushrooms

CHURCH EXTERIORS
Alaska
·Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church; Kenai
·Russian Orthodox Church, Ninilchik
·Russian Orthodox Church, Dutch Harbor
·St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka
Colorado
·Air Force Academy Chapel, Colorado Springs
·Light of the World Catholic, Littleton
·St. Patrick's Mission Church, Denver
New Mexico
·San Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos
·San Juan Pueblo
·El Sanctuario de Chimayo, Chimayo
·Isleta Pueblo
·Laguna Pueblo
·San Jose de Garcia, Las Trampas

ANIMAL TRACKS
Bear
Bighorn sheep
Coyote
Kangaroo rat
Mountain lion
Wolves

NATURE
Aspen leaves
·Back-lit single leaf with dew on it
·Group gathered in small pool of water (yellow and red leaves with water drops on them)
·Aspen grove scenes of trunks only and trunks with gold leaves in background
Aspen trees
·Woodpecker sap holes to trap bugs
·Base with leaves around
·Base with snow on ground and leaves
·Trees with large amount of flowers around them
Bearberry leaves (red color of fall)
Bristlecone Pines
Caribou antlers in various settings
·In water at sunrise
·Among bearberry leaves and mushrooms
Clouds
·Aerial photos from above the clouds
·Photos only of clouds at sunrise in different lighting conditions
Cryptobiotic cover on dirt
·Extremely old specimens with tall tubes
Dew Drops
·Dew drop on end of false hellebore leaf
Fall color
·Aspen trees in various settings
·Shots of fall color along Blue Ridge Parkway
·Fall in northern Minnesota - birch and maples
·Fall color throughout Colorado - Maroon Bells, Ridgway, Crested Butte
·Fall along Shenandoah Park, VA
Flowers with frost around petals
Foggy situations
·Trees and lake in morning fog
·Elk standing in fog
·Young moose in fog
·Snake River Overlook with moody fog
·Single trees in fog
Frosted ground leaves
Frosted pine tree with pine cone on it
Horses in field of sunflowers
Ice patterns from river in fall (1" deep) that froze over and became a layer of ice
Leaf Miners
·Eggs on corn stalk leaves
·Bored into leaves
Mountain scenics including sunrise and sunset
Mushrooms - various types and colors
Northern Lights in Alaska
Saguaro Cactus in different lighting conditions
Sand Dunes - Great Sand Dunes National Park
Snow Scenics
·Cabin in valley with snow all around
Spider web with dew
Sunrises and sunsets
Worm on corn stalk leaf
Waterfalls
·With ice incorporated into various scenes
·Running water and fall color
Winter
·Hoarfrosted aspens
·Evergreens cover with snow in on banks of a river
·Snow / hoarfrost encased trees and shrubs
·Pine tree branches with pine cones covered with snow
Yellowstone in Winter

GHOST TOWNS
Animas Fork, CO
Howardsville, CO mine building
Various deserted mine buildings in Colorado,,,

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