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About Jeff Parker
Jeff Parker is equal parts pro photographer and naturalist. He really enjoys encouraging others to photograph and marvel over nature’s wonders.
Jeff believes that nature photography has the power to bring deeper awareness to issues of conservation. “Such images make people care more,” he says.
His work has appeared in many publications, including Audubon, Outdoor Photographer, Texas Parks & Wildlife, Texas Wildlife, American Profile and Texas Journey, as well as the books Borderlands of Laredo, Texas and Wildlife in Focus. With his wife, writer Mary O. Parker, he published the award-winning nature travel guide, Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide (Texas A&M University Press; 2016).
Jeff leads photo tours throughout the western U.S., South and Central America, and parts of Europe.
His website is https://exploreinfocus.com/