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Professor Steven Johnson<\/a>‘s<\/strong> groundbreaking conservation photography documenting vernal pools continues to make media waves. His photo of spotted salamander eggs is on the cover of the recent Nature Conservancy<\/em> magazine<\/a>. A feature article includes several of Johnson’s other photos. He was also interviewed about his background, techniques and philosophy for a feature article<\/a> on PetaPixel, a photography and camera news website.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson devoted his most recent sabbatical to advance his multi-year project of photographing the ephemeral ecosystems of vernal pools, and the salamanders, copepods, and other critters that inhabit them. His work has already been featured in an e-book<\/a> for the North American Nature Photography Association, the new Guide to the Salamanders of Virginia<\/em><\/a> published by the Department of Wildlife Resources, The Mennonite<\/em><\/a>, and \u201cImpact: the Conservation Photography podcast.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nature Conservancy <\/em>magazine is the print and online publication published by the world’s leading conservation organization. It seeks to celebrate nature and document conservation efforts around the world, and boasts a print circulation of 600,000 and a website with over 1.2 million page views per month, on average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PetaPixel, which has been sponsored by such big names in the photography world as Canon, Zeiss, and Adobe, garners 7 million page views and 4.3 million unique visitors per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Steven Johnson‘s groundbreaking conservation photography documenting vernal pools continues to make media waves. 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