Jeff Jones Fine Art Wilderness Photography - The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Sequoia National Park, Yosemite National Park, King's Canyon National Park and the Sierra Nevada Range

Jeff Jones’s keen understanding of the natural world, coupled with decades of experience in remote backcountry and wilderness areas, form the foundation for his exceptional landscape photography. His works—from sweeping panoramic vistas to intimate, abstract studies of nature’s elemental forms—reveal his respect for and endless fascination with landscapes ranging from the stark to the sublime. By seeing the world anew through the camera’s lens and by refining his photographic craft through the use of digital technologies, Jones provides us with images at once exquisitely envisioned and beautifully rendered.  
Jones began his outdoor photography two decades ago. Since that time, he has created significant bodies of work related to California’s Sierra Nevada and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. With a primary focus on wilderness areas and shared public lands, he also has photographed a number of national parks including Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and the Grand Canyon. His traveling exhibitions include: A Wilderness Worth Saving; Future of Sequoias: Sustaining Parklands in the 21st Century; and Intimate Thoughts: Impressions of the Natural World.  
An active environmentalist, Jones follows in the American tradition of raising public awareness of and appreciation for wilderness through art. Jones’s work is shown through traveling fine art and environmental advocacy exhibitions, in galleries and museums, and as part of permanent collections in Santa Fe, NM, Minneapolis, MN, Fairbanks, AK, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and in Santa Barbara, CA—his home base. His work has supported numerous art and environmental organizations including the Alaska Coalition, Alaska Wilderness League, Community Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Center, Murie Center, Sierra Club, and the Wildling Art Museum.  
Jones produces his panoramas by combining sequential frames into a whole image. This technique, which involves equipment designed by Jones, enables him to produce exceedingly detailed large-scale scenes. The process results in singularly stunning images that capture an overwhelming sense of place. 

All of Jone’s Fine Art Photographs are printed on Epson Acid Free archival paper with pigment inks. Under normal indoor lighting conditions, the prints' colors will remain unchanged for 70 to 100 years. Prints are mounted and overmatted with 4-ply archival museum board.

About the Photos
-Fall’s Red Brush Strokes, Sheenjek Valley, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The red of the valley, comprised primarily of blue berry and bear berry plants, represents the abundance of autumn that will soon give way to the Arctic’s long, dark winter. The “red brush strokes” in this scene are red plants growing atop glacially formed moraines (these plants seem to grow on well-drained soil)
-River Mirrors the Morning, Hulahula Valley, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Photographed at 3am
The day I shot this scene, August 4, the sun set around 11:30 p.m. The blazing yellow, orange, and red sky reminded me of fall sunsets in Santa Barbara. However, with the Arctic sun staying just below the northern horizon, the colors of this Hulahula “sunset” lasted until 6 a.m (The river is said to have been named by Hawaiian whalers who found the river’s graceful curves reminiscent of the hula dance.)
-LAST LAKE, AUTUMN

Sheenjek Valley, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; August 2005 Marriage site of  

Olaus and Margaret Murie, who fought hard to save the land that would become the Arctic Refuge. They wanted it protected in large part, as Olaus wrote, for its “...precious intangible values.” These values are perhaps best captured by the following lines which Olaus and Margaret had on a plaque hanging above their fireplace:
The wonder of the world,
The beauty and the power,
The shape of things,
Their colors, lights, and shades,
These I saw.
Look you also while life lasts.
-TALUS STREAKS
Sheenjek Valley, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,

I found the streaks of light and dark talus down the slope, combined with the unusual scalloped effect of the rock to the right, to be very compelling. 

-SIMILAR YET OPPOSITE SLOPES
Sheenjek Valley, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The sweeping slope of the land from mountain top to valley always catches my eye. I was drawn to these huge slopes:  While similar in size and angle, they are fantastically different in tonal value. This was apparent even before the sunlight broke through to illumine one, bringing it into stark relief against the surrounding shadows.
-CONTRAST IN COLOR AND CONTOUR
Hulahula River, Arctic National Wildlife refuge (The river is said to have been named by Hawaiian whalers who found the river’s graceful curves reminiscent of the hula dance.)
-SOUTH FROM SUNSET PASS
Sunset Pass, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; August 9, 2004, 10:15 p.m.
I had heard about Sunset Pass from a bush pilot and also from a painter who had honeymooned there. Locating the pass on a topographic map, I saw that the view south over low-lying land to the mountain ranges could be very appealing. I hiked from base camp to the pass—the last two hours through marsh-like conditions—and was more than amply rewarded:  The vista was the most stunning I had ever seen. I shot the image at 10:15 p.m. during a break in the rain. The view across the tundra includes snow-capped Mt. Chamberlin prominent in the Franklin Range, with the Sadlerochit River flowing from west to east.