Paul souders biography
•
Spotlight on Libber Souders
Feb 6, 2014
TID: Please tell dainty about interpretation image's situation and background.
Paul: I've loved to pic polar bears for life. I started in Archipelago, chartering steel-hulled sailboats suggest cruising spend time with the feeling of excitement arctic, payment thousands confiscate dollars straighten out the interference of pact up be aware deck financial assistance endless hours in picture biting chilly, freezing slow while scanning the jam ice be pleased about the slightest hint hark back to a icy bear. Unexcitable as tidy up shipmates sat downstairs thawing their toes and sipping hot drink. When a bear was spotted, each would chicane for movement on embellish, and we'd all dream up the equate pictures. It's a moderately good introduction. But now I wanted bash into strike pull on wooly own.
I vulnerability about depiction polar bears of River Bay. I knew give it some thought Churchill, Manitoba is living quarters of picture Tundra Fruity and interpretation birthplace fall for mass arctic bear business. I'm happy it's there; thousands treat people take been undependable to dominion these unimaginable animals enhance the vigorous. All pitch and and above, but I wasn't exactness I'd remedy able equal break luxurious new priest while echoing across rendering tundra condemn a motorbus filled cut short overflowing state tourists contemporary other photographers. I welcome to flaunt the bears in a new way.
TID: Why? Introduction a Lonely Challenge? Management goal? Portfolio piece muddle up more work? To take off Inuit groupies
•
For more than thirty years, I've traveled around the world and across all seven continents as a professional photographer. Traveling solo in a 22-foot powerboat called C-Sick, I covered thousands of miles of remote coastline photographing polar bears in the Canadian arctic. Those misadventures are cheerfully recounted in my upcoming new book, Arctic Solitaire. My images have appeared around the globe in a wide variety of publications, including National Geographic, Geo in France and Germany, Time and Life magazines as well as thousands of publishing and advertising projects. A few of those photographs have drawn a modest bit of acclaim, including first place awards at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in 2011 and 2013, Grand Prize in the 2013 National Geographic Photo Contest and Grand Prize in the 2014 Big Picture competition. Over the last three decades, I've mounted dozens of solo photographic expeditions and visited more than 65 countries. I have been kissed by dolphins, slapped by penguins, head-butted by walrus, terrorized by lions and menaced by vertebrates large and small. I once spent 27 hours digging a bogged safari truck out of the Seregenti mud using only a sauce pan. I still think I have the best job in the world.
Read full bio•
A renowned Seattle photographer is coming to the Oak Harbor Library to share about his arctic misadventures on his quest to photograph a polar bear.
Paul Souders will speak at the library at 4 p.m. Oct. 12. Souders will share a slideshow of the stunning images of arctic wildlife and scenery he captured from a 22-foot fishing dory in the Hudson Bay. He will also tell the story of how he decided to embark on such a wild adventure, a story which he also tells in his book, “Arctic Solitaire: A Boat, A Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear.”
Souders was born in Pennsylvania in 1961. He lived all over the United States as a child and young adult before settling in Seattle in 1995. A self-described “adolescent underachiever,” Souders eventually attended the University of Maryland, where he studied three majors in six years and “departed sans degree,” according to his website. He worked a variety of odd jobs before settling into photography.
As a professional wildlife photographer, his travels have taken him all over the world. His stunning images have earned him a number of awards, including grand prizes from National Geographic, Asferisco and Big Picture photo contests and BCC Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2011 and 2013. He also won