Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest

Spring 2026 Conference

The Spring  meeting of the Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest will take place on April 10-11, 2026.  Friday sessions will include photo field trips and an informal evening social hour.  The Saturday session will be held at Centralia College, WA.   (This meeting will be a week later than usual, a step taken to avoid Easter weekend.)  Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. and the program begins at 10:00 a.m.

Our speaker for both the morning and afternoon sessions will be the award-winning author and wildlife photo-grapher, Paul Bannick. Paul is both the author and photographer of five well-received books.

Paul’s morning presentation will be “Owl, A Year in the Lives of North American Owls” based on the title of his best selling book. His afternoon presentation will be “Woodpecker: A year in the life of North American Woodpeckers”; the title of his latest book.

Paul’s photography has won awards from several prestigious photography contests, including those hosted by  Audubon Magazine and the International Conservation Photography Awards and was featured in a wildlife art exhibit at the Chimei Museum in Taiwan.

His work can be found prominently in bird guides from Audubon, Peterson, The Smithsonian, Stokes, The National Wildlife Federation, and in several volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the world as well as in Owls of the World and The Peterson guide to North American Woodpeckers. His work has been featured in a variety of publications from The New York Times, Audubon, Sunset, Nature’s Best Photography Magazine, Birds and Blooms, Pacific Northwest (three cover stories), Seattle Times, Alaska Air Magazine, and in many other books, magazines, parks, refuges, and other outlets in North America and Europe.

Here are some of Paul’s images. Enjoy more at his website.