Jon “Shep” Shephard

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I have never called nor thought of myself as an “artist.” When it comes to photography I’m not even sure I know where the term applies. Nature is the artist. Sometimes I just happen to be there with a camera. And for most of the past 20 years I’ve been fortunate enough to live, work, and play immersively in nature.

I was born in South Dakota, where I still have generations of family. I very unsuccessfully studied Journalism at the University of South Dakota and then Marine Science at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. It was in Hawaii that I found my true passion: being in or on the ocean. And that passion has taken me around the world, for work and for play.

Today Seattle is the homebase, where I get to live with my amazingly tolerant and endlessly supportive wife, Lynn. She’s my favorite natural wonder, and my favorite photo subject But she won’t let me build a website with those images…