Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Top Nature Photographs to be Featured in Earth Day Auction

Discovery News online reports.....

The "top 40 nature photographs of all time," as selected by the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), will be auctioned by Christie's International on April 22nd in honor of Earth Day.

Proceeds will be divided among the following environmental organizations: Conservation International, Oceana, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Central Park Conservancy.

The collection spans over 100 years of photography and features iconic images of nature in the 20th and 21st centuries. The photographers include National Geographic Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Johns, Pulitzer Prize-winning landscape photographer Jack Dykinga, and underwater documentarian Brian Skerry.
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Visit www.abidtosavetheearth.org to bid on items in the silent auction, including signed prints of some of the Top 40 images. You can also check out the complete gallery of 40 photographs at this Flickr page.

1 comment:

yosemite faith said...

thanks for the info. you've had a lot of weather there lately - via the webcams (LOVE) - yosemite bob said once the worst weather is the best weather and i couldn't agree more. wish i was there....