Photographer, writer, speaker, and OWAA board member, Jim Foster won Honorable Mention in the 2009 Refuge Photography Contest sponsored by the National Wildlife Refuge Association, ATP Oil & Gas Corporation, Southwest Airlines, Barbara’s Bakery, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Wild Bird Centers of America.
His winning photograph of a Painted Bunting was taken on the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Texas.
Jim Foster is a full-time outdoor writer who specializes in writing about and photographing nature, the outdoors, travel, and adventure travel. He has served as South Texas photo stringer for the Associated Press and was regional editor of two saltwater fishing magazines. A native Texan Jim now lives in Salmon, Idaho.
He is a columnist and feature writer for the Port Isabel Press and the San Benito Newspapers, the South Padre Island Times as well as his own well visited and sponsored on-line Blog He edited and wrote the OUTDOORS SUNDAY PAGE for the Valley Freedom Newspaper Group for over 7 years. Jim has just been signed on to write a photography column for the ISLAND PARK NEWS and their On-Line Magazine. This column will feature many of Jim's images taken in Yellowstone National Park.
His photographic images have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the country and in several books. He maintains an extensive stock photo file and sells to publications as well as the advertising community. Jim was the commissioned photographer for Henderson, Nevada to photograph their new birding and wildlife area. Henderson will be using the images for promotional items, their web site, and has produced a series of photo CDs on the areas wildlife. His birding images have been used by several Chamber of Commerce publications.
Jim is a member and serving on the board of directors of OWAA, and a member of Professional Outdoor Media Association, the American Society of Media Photographers, The National Society of Newspaper Columnists, The Southeast Outdoor Press Association, and is a past president (2 Terms) of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association and served 11 terms on the TOWA board of Directors. Over the years he has won over one hundred awards for his writing and photography.
His First DIGITAL BIRD BOOK is going into its second printing and his sponsored BLOG receives multi-K hunts daily.
Jim also is a popular lecturer and gives slide presentations on photography, fishing, hunting, wildlife, birding, and travel locations and events.
Jim has also written about and taught wildlife photography at several colleges and universities. He has also displayed his photography his photography at the Idaho State University gallery and several commercial galleries and has been a guest speaker schools and birding groups across the country on several topics.
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