Giveaway: Natural Photo Art From Acclaimed Photographer Ian Shive
Filed under: contests, green and famous — Michael d'Estries @ 7:27 pm
August 29th 2008
For today’s birthday celebration giveaway, we’re presenting some incredible, 16×20, museum-quality framed photography from Ian Shive.
A recognized and rising star in outdoor lifestyle, landscape and conservation photography, Shive, 30, has had his images appear in such publications as Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, National Geographic, Popular Science and Outside Magazine. Beyond the lens, he is also a a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers and regularly supports such groups as The Nature Conservancy and the National Parks Conservation Association. For more, check out his official website here.
From the three images above, the winner of this giveaway will choose one (a $475 value). Want to win? Leave us a comment below telling us what your favorite natural location in the world is. Who know, perhaps Ian will use it in his next shoot. Complete rules and giveaway details are available here.
Don’t forget! We’re still accepting entries for the LUNA bars 4-box gift pack and Delight Bold and Bright Shopper set.
High-res shots of the photograph selections are available below.
okay those are amazing. I would say the Nova Scotia coast is beautiful. So many places to pick from. I would love to be picked!
Greater Victoria in British Columbia during the summer months when the whales are migrating, absolutely gorgeous and unforgettable. Just like those photos.
O’ahu’s east coast where ever there is a good view of the bright blue ocean. Also a fan of the blue skies and yellow plains of Colorado.
The quiet alpine lakes in the Cascades where you can barely make out the Seattle skyline, easily see snow-capped Mount Adams, and camp next to a pristine mirror lake amidst the most surreal colors of flora. Then the sun sets and you enjoy a night sky which rivals Bryce or Mendocino National Forest.
gorgeous!
The rural parts of the Kathmandu Valley in the tiny kingdom of Nepal offer the most amazing views of tiered rice fields with mountains outlining the sky each way you turn.
There is a place called Pebble Beach in England, where dunes and valleys of pebbles fill miles of coast lines. so stunning!
I adore Ian Shive! Wow cannot believe you’re giving away his work! excellent. I’d love it
Oooo, pick me!
Mine has to be a tie between Joshua Tree & Redwood National Forest
The most beautiful place I’ve ever set my sights on would have to be the Rocky Mountains in Estes Park, Colorado. Beautiful!
My favorite natural location in the world is Victoria Falls
*Thanks* for the giveaway!
Amazing. I’m in desperate need of a piece to hang above the fireplace!!
Beautiful photo’s I’d be honored to have one on the wall. Thanks for giving us all such beautiful pictures to see.
amazing. i think landscape photography is the most difficult AND most rewarding. beautiful.
Amazing photos! My favorite natural location is in Ventura California. There is a spot a few miles from the Ventura pier where the Ventura river flows into the ocean and it’s absolutely breathtaking. It’s a very natural beach setting, no landscaped sand or anything, and it’s also a bird sanctuary. You can sit and watch the tide come in and the pelicans nesting and the fog rolling in during the summer.
It would be great to hang one of these photos in my office, with other nature-inspired artwork. My favorite natural place is the coastline from Seal Beach to Laguna Beach in California. It’s a great drive along PCH, and there are many lovely spots to stop along the beach. However, Iguazu Falls at the Argentina/Brasil/Paraguay border is amazing, as is the diverse landscape of Hawaii’s Big Island!
As cheesy as it would sound to anyone in Colorado, I love Red Rocks. The formations at Roxbury are also beautiful, but the acoustics aren’t as good, so Red Rocks wins. Have you ever seen a concert there? Not only does it look beautiful, it sounds beautiful.
I absolutely love Crater Lake, Oregon. It is my heaven on earth.
Considering I haven’t had much chance to travel, I’ll have to go back to where I grew up. Magens Bay beach in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands is absolutely one of my favorite natural setttings. You can be in the water up to your neck and still see your toes! I wish I could go back there right now…I’m getting all misty-eyed thinking about it…
the beach – i could never get tired of it. good thing i live so close to the coast!
red rocks of sedona, arizona
My favorite landscape is right here in my backyard (lucky me!)–the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion. Craggy peaks, thermal basins, abundant wildlife, alpine lakes, wildflower meadows…they don’t call it Wonderland for nothing!
DMZ in Korea. By the way, photos really look nice.
These are beautiful! I would love to put these in my house.
my dream job is to be an outdoor photographer, inspiring conservation. though I’m still saving up to go, my favorite spot in the world would be Antarctica. it’s pristine, absolutely beautiful, and in grave danger.
My favorite place in the world is Polihale in Kauai. The place is mysterious, beautiful, life-altering, and peaceful. I want to be buried out to sea there. It is the only time in my life where I felt absolute peace.
Those are absolutely beautiful. My favorite place in the world is Salton Sea in California.
My favorite place on earth is the Negev Dessert in the middle of the night.
Wonderful! Count me in!
I forgot to add…Anywhere in New Zealand.
I would nominate Pico Bonito, a tropical rain forest and national preserve in the Northern Coastal area of Honduras. It is one of the least explored forests in the entire country, with only a few trails. It is also a ecological preserve, which is very important in Honduras where they are experiencing one of the fastest urbanization rates in all of Central America. Since these habitats are in critical danger, I believe they would be an excellent candidate for photography and to help spread the word about the danger than they are facing.
Wow! Those are amazing, the forest picture would look beautiful on my wall.:) i love the Blueridge mountains with it’s mountian creeks, and cascading waterfalls. There is beauty everywhere here.
those are amazing,..I would put it in my bedroom to wake to it every morning
oh!! and my favorite scene would have to be kuai’s na pali coast
My fave is the 17 acres of woods, along a river and a small creek, that I grew up in.
There’s no place like home…
I love the prairies here in Illinois.
My newest favorite natural location is Yangshuo, Guangxi Province, China. The karst rock formations combined with the river, fisherman, and romping water buffalo are amazing … and left me again ready to take up my English teaching job here in western China.
I love nature and to me it can be as simple as Fairmount Park which is in my current backyard to the more pristine Rocky Mountains located in my old back yard.
That is a really hard question to pick just one place. I live in CO and get to see that beauty everyday but another place I went to recently which really blew me away was the 1,000+ year old trees in the old growth forests on Vancouver Island, BC. What a profound sense of peace I felt while hanging out with the trees in the forest and they were so beautiful to look at, too.
i love these. i just moved into an apartment and the art work is lacking this would be really sweet to win!
Wow, beautiful images. One of my favorite spots would have to be the Cape Cod National Seashore.