“…this exhibit is among the best we’ve ever had the privilege of hosting.” ~ Mountain Light Gallery Staff
Carr Clifton’s opening reception for his Sacred Headwaters Exhibit was a huge success! Featuring thirty-two fine art prints from the Sacred Headwaters and custom printed personally by Carr, the show will be displayed at Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop, California through March 15. A big thank you to the Mountain Light crew for their artistic eye and incredible hospitality – this show should not be missed.
As principle photographer for the newly released book, The Sacred Headwaters, The Fight to Save the Stikine, Nass and Skeena Rivers, Carr’s images from this beautifully written and illustrated book are the focus of the exhibit, with all proceeds from the sale of the book used to protect the Sacred Headwaters.
Masterfully crafted, Carr’s prints speak for themselves. Every step of the printing process is personally performed by Carr, from image optimization to print output, with hours spent on each print to achieve the best possible results. Carr’s expertly printed fine art prints are available in a full range of sizes and can be customized to meet your specifications.
Mountain Light Gallery
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition
Sacred Headwater Images
Carr’s image of the Sacred Headwaters was used in this Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition and Forest Ethics ad – please support their efforts!
The newly released, Oceans, Heart Of Our Blue Planet is the 19th volume in the Cemex Conservation book series. Beautifully illustrated with images from International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), including several images from Carr Clifton, Oceans looks at the many ways life on Earth depends on a healthy ocean and the threats facing its integrity. Written by influential marine scientists, this important work conveys how our survival is directly linked to the ocean and offers innovative and creative solutions to those threats.
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iLCP
Conservation International
Cemex Conservation
Woods Hole Oceaneanic Institution
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Silently in the cool, coastal waters of Alaska, an ominous consequence of global climate change threatens one of the world’s most precious and richest ecosystems. Ocean acidification, the result of increased ocean pH levels due to the absorption of high levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, prevents calcifying marine organisms from producing their calcareous skeletal structures. Threatening and potentially destroying populations of cold-water corals, sea urchins, mollusks and coralline algae, the disappearance of these important food chain species could result in whole species extinction with widespread effects on fisheries and other wildlife.
Because carbon dioxide is absorbed more readily in the cold waters of northern latitudes, Alaska is known as Ground Zero for climate change, as ocean acidification occurs at an accelerated rate making it a barometer for marine ecosystems worldwide. The devastating impact on this immense, beautiful, and often ice-bound land and sea is immeasurable – Alaska’s communities and the world could face extremely debilitating changes in their environment, natural resources and economies.
Award-winning photographer Carr Clifton’s infatuation with the beauty and wildness of coastal Alaska began fifteen years ago from his 19 foot rigid inflatable boat. Traveling extensively through ice-choked fiords and extreme weather and seas, Carr captured this unique and endangered environment in a comprehensive and exceptional portfolio of images, giving voice to the ecological significance of this extraordinary ecosystem. A place of mountains and seas, glaciers and ice, forests and fiords – where the land meets the sea, these images offer a glimpse into a remarkable world of unparalleled beauty and wildness.
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Coastal Alaska Images
Alaska Marine Conservation Council
First Buoy in Alaska to Measure CO2 and pH Levels
Traveling for eight weeks in South America this past spring, Carr’s dynamic images of Chile and Argentina are now posted on his website. From the boats and harbors along Chile’s coastline, to the fantastic whitewater of the Rio Futaleufu and the volcanoes of the Atacama Desert, this unique collection of images is available for licensing and as fine art prints.
New Chile & Argentina Images
New Rio Futaleufu Images
Carr’s image of the Iskut River in the Sacred Headwaters, British Columbia graces the cover of Canada’s Wilderness Committee’s 2012 Canada’s Endangered Wilderness Calendar. One of Canada’s largest membership-based, citizen-funded wilderness protection groups, the Wilderness Committee is committed to protecting Canada’s biodiversity through strategic research and grassroots public education and has successfully protected millions of hectares of Canadian wilderness in over 40 key wilderness areas.
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Sacred Headwaters Images
Two months in South America collaborating once again with Earth River Expeditions on the Rio Futaleufu in Patagonia, Chile, Carr captured the exhilarating whitewater and majesty of the glacial, blue waters of this class V+ river in an incredible portfolio of images. Known as the Everest of commercial whitewater, the Rio Futaleufu is born from the lakes in Los Alerces National Park in Argentina, then crosses the Andes Mountains into the Aysen region of Chile creating one of the most beautiful and extreme whitewater rivers in the world.
Earth River partners, Eric Hertz and Robert Currie ran the first complete raft descent of the Rio Futaleufu in 1990 pioneering commercial rafting there. In the forefront of river conservation and dedicated to raising public awareness to the multitude of issues facing rivers worldwide, Earth River is committed to protecting the Rio Futaleufu from a proposed hydroelectric project by Chile’s largest electric company, and from the invasive freshwater algae, didymo phenia, an emerging worldwide environmental problem.
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Earth River Expeditions
Carr’s Rio Futaleufu Images
