Chasing the Mountain Light

A Life Photographing Wild Places

David Neilson

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Snowgum Press
01 October 2022

Individual photographers; Wildlife: general interest; Climbing & mountaineering; Travel & holiday; Expeditions

This highly regarded outdoor and landscape photographer shares his most stunning black-and-white images from around the globe, and his adventures in search of them.

Childhood adventures in Australia inspired David Neilson to pursue as a career his twin loves of the mountain realm and photography. He has made multiple expeditions to South-West Tasmania, Patagonia and Antarctica, and published critically acclaimed photographic books about each of these places; he has also carried his camera into the Karakoram mountains in Pakistan, and the Alps of Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

In this oversized volume, Neilson recounts his lifelong quest to capture the mountain light and encourage the preservation of wild places. His spectacular images of jagged peaks, massive glaciers and hardy wildlife are reproduced as duotones of the highest quality. Seven vertical, double-page images invite readers to turn the book sideways to immerse themselves in the mountain heights.

Chasing the Mountain Light will delight all lovers of wild outdoor places.

Photographs by: David Neilson
Imprint: Snowgum Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 325mm, Width: 305mm, Spine: 28mm
ISBN: 9780987298010
ISBN 10: 0987298011
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

David Neilson is the photographer and author of four books. South West Tasmania: A Land of the Wild highlighted the threatened wilderness of western Tasmania. Wilsons Promontory: Coastal Wildness celebrated the beauty of one of Australia's foremost national parks. Patagonia: Images of a Wild Land drew on his climbing expeditions to the southern Andes and his most recent book, Southern Light: Images from Antarctica, was the result of six journeys to the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. In 1990 and 2004 he received Antarctic Arts Fellowships from the Australian Antarctic Division that enabled him to spend two summers taking photos in the Antarctic from a base at Australia's Mawson Station. These photos were used in various books and also in the joint Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery and Museum of Victoria exhibition Antarctica: Secrets of the Frozen World. In 2021 he was one of four Antarctic Arts Fellows to be featured on a set of Australia Post stamps. He worked for the Australian Conservation Foundation for ten years as a graphic designer and pictorial editor producing books, wilderness diaries and calendars. His early working life was spent as a civil engineer. In recent years his photography has broadened to include film-making and in 2018 he made the documentary The Desperate Plight of the Orange-bellied Parrot about this critically endangered bird. He lives near Emerald, east of Melbourne, with his partner, Karen Alexander, and runs a photography and publishing business.