News from Beth Maynor Young

John Hall has won the Reed Environmental Writing Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center.

This is the brief talk he gave at the event. You will love this!

http://www.southernenvironment.org/phil_reed/

Lite Box Gallery – Nov 5 thru Dec 23  Open Thur – Sat Noon to 5:00 pm

Located in the Dr. Pepper Complex on 2nd Ave South.

This show has a lot of different artists with work priced for the holidays. I have some new and very different work as well as many copies of Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers and note cards.

Freshwater Land Trust – Artscape

November 19th Avondale Park Theater.

Check out the work of the artists that will be auctioning their work and buy tickets to the event on line

http://www.freshwaterlandtrust.org/artscape.php

Perry Lakes Park is one of the most amazing places in Alabama.

http://www.zinio.com/pages/SmithsonianMagazine/Aug-09/416091491/pg-30

Smithsonian Magazine published a major story on the Cahaba River in the August issue! Michelle Nihjuis spent a week with us exploring the river and getting a full dose of Cahaba 101. She did an amazing job of sifting through huge amounts of information to write a great story about the river. I loved working with her and really loved photographing a place I care so much about. You can view the article here.

This made front page in the Birmingham News

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/statebriefs.ssf?/base/news/1248250626233890.xml&coll=2

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/07/cahaba_lilies.html

Just out!

Smithsonian Magazine • The Cahaba: a River of Riches.

August 2009

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/River-of-Riches.html

Birmingham New July 21

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/statebriefs.ssf?/base/news/1248250626233890.xml&coll=2

Front Page of the Birmingham News – July 3rd

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/07/cahaba_lilies.html

Tom Spencer wrote a beautiful piece about how far we have come preserving places in Alabama and our attitudes toward those places.

Book signings and talks:

•The Maralyn Wilson Gallery

July 24 5;30-8:30 Maralyn Wilson will host a show and a book signing.We are raffeling a large framed photograph that was taken 20 years ago of the Cahaba lilies, to support the Cahaba River Society. Maralyn’s Gallery is always a fun place with really interesting art and people, so come join us! click on the link below to purchase raffle tickets.

https://kingfishereditions.com/email/raffle.html

•August 20 Anniston Library 5:00 pm John Hall speaking about the rivers of Alabama / then we both will be available for a book signing.

•August 28 Sertoma Club 12:00 noon Altadena Country Club. I will be speaking about the Headwaters Journey and signing books.

• September 20 Gorham’s Bluff 3:00 pm. John Hall and I both will be speaking and signing the Headwaters book.

•Alabama Museum of Natural History – Headwaters Photography Exhibit

On display through August. Buy the photographs off the wall to support the Museum.

Listen to John Hall on NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104104547

Mobile Press Register

http://www.al.com/books/mobileregister/jsledge.ssf?/base/entertainment/1241514940307260.xml&coll=3

Birmingham News

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/metro.ssf?/base/news/1240042549159050.xml&coll=2

Portico Magazine

www.porticomag.com

http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=408290892&o=ext

Thicket Magazine

http://thicketmag.com/content/?p=495

Book Signings –

•Little Professor Book Store

•Milestone Books

•Alabama Rivers Alliance Conservation Photography exhibit is on-line

http://www.alabamarivers.org/alabama-waterways-photo-exhibit

Sale of these photographs will benefit the Alabama Rivers Alliance.

TNC Prairie burn

http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/Cahawba%20Prairie%20Burn/index.html

Tarklin Bayou and Blackwater River State Forest Burn

http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/Tarklin_Blackwater_Burn/index.html

Blackwater

http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/Blackwater_Burn/

DeSoto National Forest 

http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/DeSoto_Burn/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luS1F_eRql8

Briar Creek Eglin AFB

http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/FL_Briar_Creek_Eglin_AFB/

Mossy Pond

http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/Mossy_pond/index.html

Chris Chantland is an artist from Michigan with a vision for a web site dedicated to selling the work of some amazing artists, including my friend Jack Tribble and his bird carvings. It is truly worth a visit and while you are there listen to some of the music he has companioned with my photographs.

http://www.sportingartisans.com/

Carol Hagood interviewed  me last year for a presentation to the New Cue writers conference. I thought she made great sense of my chaotic life and career. You can read her story here: http://www.walden.org/institute/Collections/NewCUE/NewCUE2008/Hagood.pdf

In Flow: A Passion for Place - A Case for Conservation in the Work of Photographer

Beth Maynor Young

― Based on a January 10, 2008 interview ―by Carol Cook Hagood

Presented at the New-CUE― Nature and Environmental Writers, College and University Educators ―

Fifth Environmental Writers’ Conference In Honor of Rachel Carson

Booth Harbor, Maine, 10-13 June 2008

TEXT PREPARED BY THE THOREAU INSTITUTE AT WALDEN WOODS

WITH PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR NO PIECE MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR ©2008

Locust Fork - One of the oldest rivers in the world.

Recently the writer Todd Keith accompanied geologist Jim Lacefield to the Locust Fork to learn about one of the world’s oldest rivers. You can  read Todd’s article and see the video at the Thicket webiste. http://thicketmag.com/content/?p=353

Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers

Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers, is the story of Alabama told by master story-teller John C. Hall, with photographs of Alabama’s rivers by conservation photographer Beth Maynor Young.

This book has been a long time in the making, Robin McDonald did a remarkable job uniting the story and the photographs into an extraordinary piece of work. The foreword by Rick Middleton, the Director of the Southern Environmental Law Center is very insightful. Headwaters is a very elegant and beautiful statement about Alabama. We are now one of the few states to have a book about our rivers.

News coverage:

Mobile Press Register

http://www.al.com/books/mobileregister/jsledge.ssf?/base/entertainment/1241514940307260.xml&coll=3

Birmingham News

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/metro.ssf?/base/news/1240042549159050.xml&coll=2

Portico Magazine 

www.porticomag.com 

Thicket Magazine 

http://thicketmag.com/content/?p=495

Trees and Forests of America

Tim Palmer

 A must  read  -  a  journey through great   forests.

 With  brilliant  photographs  and a clear  voice,   Tim Palmer  guides the reader  through a majestic  American  landscape,   on a journey   of  beauty  and a story of our connectivity  and  interdependence   on  forests and their ecosystems.  By looking at our forests  through  a visionary  artist’s eyes   I  discovered    many   new  things   about   the complexity   and beauty old growth  trees,  the threats  to these systems as well as the immense  problems these systems can solve for humanity.    Tim’s story talks  about the mystery and importance of  these diverse systems  and the simple grace  of a walk in the woods.  The photographs  of the soul of each  spectacular  forest would   be reason  enough  to  spend time wandering  through this book,   but  the  story is equally compelling   .

 This is a must read for water boards,   zoning   and  planning   commissions,   and Sunday school classes seeking to learn more about creation;  it is a  book  for hunters,  fisherman,  birders and all who enjoy,   or remember   the  joy,  peace  and beauty of  a forest.  This  book  shows us

how  we are  all  interconnected   to  our  forests.   Tim also has a book on  the Rivers of America  that is equally as splendid.

 go to www.timpalmer.org or order through Amazon.