Wild Focus: Twenty-Five Years of Texas Parks and Wildlife Photography ~ Witte Museum

Recorded May 17, 2022 at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas

Speaker: Earl Nottingham, Photographer

Earl Nottingham’s presentation could also be called “Wild Focus - 25 years of using the camera as a tool for conservation”. The camera plays an important role in communicating the many facets of being a good steward of outdoor Texas. He will use images from his recent book Wild Focus, to illustrate the places, people and things that define conservation efforts of the state

Earl Nottingham is considered one of Texas’ preeminent photographers. He attended the Art Institute of Atlanta and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Photography from East Texas State University. After operating as a freelance photographer for several years, he took over as chief photographer for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 1996, where he then served for 25 years, retiring in 2021.
His assignments for TPWD and its magazine took him to every corner of the state, documenting its landscape, people and historical treasures. Based in Temple, Texas, Earl continues shooting professional assignments and teaching workshops.

Wes Ferguson will make a case for the Blanco River as the defining element of the Hill Country’s most beautiful scenery. From its placid headwaters near Luckenbach to its many limestone ledges and secluded, gin-clear swimming holes, the Blanco River is unique in its beauty. But the Blanco also sits at the epicenter of rapid change between San Antonio and Austin, one of the nation’s fastest-growing regions. For his book about the Blanco, author Wes Ferguson paddled, swam, waded and hiked the 87-mile river to explore its natural splendor, history, wildlife, danger and conflict, ultimately
telling a story that resonates far beyond the banks of the Blanco and connects to all the free-flowing streams of Central Texas.

Wes Ferguson, East Texas native, is the author of nonfiction books about the Sabine and Blanco Rivers. A regular contributor and former staff member of both Texas Highways and Texas Monthly magazines, Ferguson was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in Feature Writing in 2020. He recently completed “Standoff,” a podcast on the 1974 Huntsville prison siege, and is currently working on a book about the Camino Real de los Tejas, the first trail across Texas.

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