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The 100th anniversary of the National Park Service has finally arrived. My contribution to the occasion is the photography book  Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey through America's National Parks, the most complete visual tour of all 59 US National Parks in a coffee-table book, with location notes for each photograph.
Falling In Love With the National Parks
Winter Sunset, Yosemite National Park
Growing up in France, and trained as a computer scientist, with no awareness of the significance of the U.S. National Parks, I was quite an unlikely person to author this book. In Europe, mountaineering had provided me with my only experiences of wilderness. My time on the mountain compelled me to adopt photography as a means to share with those who couldn’t see for themselves the beauty of the high peaks of the Alps. Eventually, I came to the United States for what was to be a short academic stay. I did not know much about the geography of this country, but I chose the University of Cali...

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QT Luong
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QT Luong is a full-time photographer from California, known for being the first to photograph all 59 US National Parks - in large format. Ken Burns featured him in "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" (2009). His photographs, published in dozens of countries around the world, have been the subject several magazine profiles, solo gallery and museum exhibits. He the author and photographer of "Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey through America's National Parks" (treasuredlandsbook.com), a large format book where photographs of the 59 US National Parks are augmented with detailed photography locations notes from which this series of articles is drawn.
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