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A Lion’s Roar
My first time journey to photograph in Africa was to Botswana, where I visited Chobe National Park, the Savute Marsh Area and the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
The goal and hope of a photographer is to capture at least one compelling story. I found many. Sometimes the story is in a single image, capturing a “decisive moment”, and sometimes it is in an event.  But would I find that “one”?
Since this was my first trip to Africa, visual preparation was of the utmost importance. I researched the places I planned to visit and looked at the work of many wildlife photographers. As a result I left on this journey with some expectations and yet I had no idea what I would see. My experience would be unique to my time and place.
I began traveling overseas seven years ago with the primary focus on photographing the landscape and the people who inhabited the lands I visited. I had never photographed wildlife of the magnitude I would see in Africa. The experience was beyond my wildest dr...

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Benjamin is recognized as one of the most accomplished black and white photographers in the state of Colorado. Benjamin’s early work was with a 4x5 film camera. She has since migrated to digital format and color. Beside the work of Edward Curtis, Charles Russell, Frederic Remington and Thomas Moran, Benjamin’s photography was part of a collection of Art of the American West, exhibited at the U.S. Embassy in Spain. Her photographs are included in personal and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad. Benjamin’s first book, If You Listen: Poems & Photographs of the San Juan Mountains, was done in collaboration with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Other publications by Benjamin include a self-published book, Telluride, Landscapes and Dreams, foreword by Jay Dusard, and A Spiritual Connection, Living on the Edge of the American Rockies, foreword by Richard Moe, President of National Trust for Historic Preservation. She has just completed a mixed media project entitled “The Fabric of a Woman, A Celebration, a book she has worked on for the past decade and is in the process of getting it published. While working on the mixed media project, Benjamin has traveled abroad capturing moments in time of people and places. Her travels have taken her to Scotland, Ireland, Turkey, Jordan, Bali, Viet Nam, Peru, the Galapagos, Guatemala, Nepal, Myanmar and South Africa. Benjamin is currently working on a project of women in remote regions of the world and will be an instructor on the 2016 South Georgia and Antarctica trip sponsored by Luminous-Landscape/Rockhopper Workshops. Her passion for photography has no boundaries and she is open to all possibilities. www.eileenbenjamin.com
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