William Neill

William Neill

William Neill, an American photographer and resident of Yosemite National Park area since 1977, is a renowned nature and landscape photographer. Neill's award-winning photography has been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters, and his limited-edition prints have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Vernon Collection, and The Polaroid Collection. Neill has received the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography and is an emeritus member of Canon USA’s elite Explorers of Light. Neill's assignment and published credits include National Geographic, Smithsonian, Natural History, National Wildlife, Conde Nast Traveler, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Travel and Leisure, Wilderness, Sunset, Sierra and Outside magazines. Also, he writes a regular column, On Landscape, for Outdoor Photographer magazine. Feature articles about his work have appeared in Life, Camera and Darkroom, Outdoor Photographer and Communication Arts, from whom he has also received five Awards of Excellence. His corporate clients have included Sony Japan, Bayer Corporation, Canon USA, Nike, Nikon, The Nature Company, Hewlett Packard, 3M, Freidrick Grohe, Neutrogena, Sony Music/Classical, University of Cincinnati, Mirabaud, Bear Sterns and UBS Global Asset Management. He is the photographic author of many books including The Sense of Wonder,The Tree, By Nature's Design, The Color of Nature and Traces of Time. A portfolio of his Yosemite photographs has been published Yosemite: The Promise of Wildness and a retrospective monograph of his landscape photography entitled Landscapes Of The Spirit.
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The Magic Element – Emotion

Mudcracks, Zion National Park, Utah  1983Camera: Wista 45,  Lens: Rodenstock Sironar-N 210mm f/5.6One important characteristic of an artist is the ability and willingness to express


The Edges of Light

Half Dome and Elm tree, winter, Yosemite National Park, California  1990If you ask me what my favorite light for photography is, I will say soft


William Neill eBooks

William Neill(Bill) is widely recognized as one of America's finest landscape photographers. Widely published and exhibited, his work is truely inspirational. Bill is also acolumnistfor


Thoughts on Ansel

William Neill and Ansel Adams "...It is difficult to explain the magic: to lie in a small recess of the granite matrix of the Sierra


Landscapes of the Spirit

Like many photographers I enjoy viewing and learning from the work of others. About 10 years ago I came acrossBill Neill'sLandscape of The Spirit, and