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In 1966 Tony Hathaway returned from two years of Peace Corps
service in Ethiopia with several boxes of photos. When he showed his images to
a National Geographic photographer, he had high hopes of being hired by the
magazine. The photographer took one look at Tonys slides and suggested he
consider insurance as a career!
Disappointed but not discouraged, Tony enrolled in a
correspondence photography course, pursued work as a freelance photographer and
landed a job as a photo editor for the US Department of Agriculture. Just as
he began to get some freelance architectural photography assignments, the
bottom fell out of the construction market and he was left to reconsider his
career path.
Tony joined forces with a photographer friend to start their
own business reproducing graphic and photographic images on aluminum sheets for
use as plaques and signs. His business flourished and it wasnt until he
retired in 1998 that he decided to get serious about his photography nature
photography in particular.
In recent years Tony has pursued his passion for nature
photography, traveling with Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris to several destinations
including Antarctica, Svalbard/Spitsbergen, Brazils Pantanal, Australia, Iceland,
Yellowstone National Park and Alaska. The wonderful photos he has shared
with us below were taken on two of our Alaska tours: Denali National Park in
Autumn and Brown Bears of Katmai National Park in Autumn.
Tonys fascination with photography continues to grow. He
does all of his own processing, printing, matting and framing and makes
greeting cards from his best shots. He has shown his photos at arts and crafts
shows, libraries, retirement homes and businesses. According to Tony, It
still gives me a thrill when a perfect stranger likes one of my pictures enough
to buy it.
Brown bear profile
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Brown bear and cub
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Beware! Bears on the bridge.
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Brown bear with salmon
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Brown bear standing
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Brown bear cub
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Brown bear cub
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Waiting for bears at viewing platform
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Alaskan Range
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Denali in black and white
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Moonrise over Alaskan Range
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Ptarmigan
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