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A Master Combination of Fine Art Images and a Captivating Children Story.

Artan's Day:
A Little Bear in a Big World

A spunky little grizzly, Artan, enjoys a long summer's day in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. He tries clamming, dreams of growing up and catching salmon, enjoys a tasty fish, faces danger, runs from a big bear with his sister, and reunites with Mom.

The photos are real and so is the story, pretty much.

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Une Journée avec Artan:
Un Ourson à la Conquête des Grands Espaces

Artan est un petit grizzli courageux. Lors d'une longue journée d'été à Lake Clark en Alaska, il essaie de ramasser des coquillages, rêve de devenir grand et d'attraper des saumons, avale un délicieux poisson, échappe aux dangers, est pourchassé avec sa sœur par un énorme ours et retrouve enfin sa maman.

Les photos sont réelles et cette histoire pourrait l'être aussi.

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Special

Book & Fine Art Print
Signed copy and
one (of 3) 8x10" fine art print of your choice
Special Price: $90 $80 Purchase

Hard cover: 62 pages
First Edition, July 2009
Photographs and
Book Concept © 2009 Oliver Klink
English Text © 2009 Sandy Farley
French Translation © 2009 Catherine Klink
Cover Design © 2009 Julia Weber

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Two Images Nominated for the 5th Annual Black and White Spider Award


Greetings! I am proud to share with you that two of my images got nominated for the Black and White 5th Annual Spider Awards. These images were made following a workflow (detailed below) which helps me produce them in ways that I always wanted to try but never dared in the past.

Black and White Spider Awards is the leading international award honoring black and white photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers in a prestigious annual competition and globally webcast event, reaching photo fans in over 154 countries. With a collective Judging Panel of the world's most recognized experts from SOTHEBY'S, TATE, MAGNUM PHOTOS, FRATELLI ALINARI, ARMORY SHOW, HAMILTONS of London and more, the awards are the industry's most authoritative and important photographic event for black and white and mono art.

How it all came together:

  • Repeat trip to the same location. Mine my subject
  • Visualize my next photoshoot. Not an image but a concept
  • Get inspired by the masters and create my own vision
  • Think "sideway". Push the limit of my technical and creative knowledge
  • Be efficient when reviewing my images in the field
  • Pre-postprocessing in the field - "Sketching"
  • Backup all my data before returning home
  • When home, review and enhance my "Sketching"
  • Print and "live" with my images for a while
  • Select final images and refine the post processing to realize master versions
  • Further refine my prints
  • Output my images as print and other medium format
  • Backup, archive, and store my master images
To learn more about my process/workflow go to IncredibleTravelPhotos.com


Photography Extravaganza


The Photography Extravaganza was a total success. We want to thank the following people that made the event possible: Sulphur Creek Nature Center, PhotoCentral, Keeble & Shuchat, IncredibleTravelPhotos.com, Geir Jordhal, Wendy Gray, Alex Navarro, Bruce Finocchio, Marco Zecchin, Munir Kureshi, Jonathan Parnell, Rafa Hernandez and Jonathan Gray. Please visit and support their respective sites. And thanks to the participants, whose fees will be donated to the kids program at PhotoCentral. We are working on the Photography Extravaganza II (schedule to be determined). If you are interested, please email Oliver to be added to the mailing list. All the best with your photography .... Oliver Klink.