In his nearly twenty years as a park ranger Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho, Doug taught countless park visitors how boosting their skills as naturalists could improve their results as photographers. In Park Ranger's Guide to Nature & Wildlife Photography, readers everywhere can take advantage of the same training and master the field craft that enables top photographers to great wildlife shots – even with modest gear. In fact, Doug's approach actually favours those with simple equipment that frees them to concentrate on the subject and environment rather than fiddling with complex camera settings.
Douglass Owen was a science teacher and USGS geologist before joining the National Park Service to work for nearly twenty years as a park ranger at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho. He received a certificate of graduation in Professional Photography from the New York Institute of Photography in 1984 and published his first nature photography article in 1990. Since then, his pictures have been published in a number of calendars, magazines, and books and he has taught numerous two-day nature photography workshops and seminars at Craters of the Moon, for Xanterra in Yellowstone, and for ISU Friends of Learning.