About Les Picker Fine Art Photography
About Les Picker Fine Art Photography (LPFA)
At LPFA we are passionate about photography. Our mission is to:
- bring the beauty of nature to discriminating fine art collectors, corporations, institutions and private homes;
- improve the skills of photographers through our workshops so that they can achieve their photographic goals;
- bring photographers to amazing locations through our photo tours and guide them in capturing world-class images.
We are committed to excellence in everything we do. We are equally committed to excellence in customer relations.
We thank you for taking the time to peruse our site and we look forward to serving you as a client.
Les Picker
Les has photographed for National Geographic Society publications and many other consumer and corporate magazines and newspapers. He has had more than 650 published articles in major national publications. He was a monthly columnist and features contributor to Oceans Magazine and a weekly columnist, Op-Ed contributor and features travel writer and photographer for The Baltimore Sun. Les shoots the Fuji GFX medium format system.
Two characteristics shape Les’ photography; passion and inquisitiveness. Since an early age Les has been interested in the natural world and in other cultures. He has an earned doctorate in environmental affairs (winter ecology), which he believes helps inform his landscape and wildlife photography. His interest in other cultures draws him frequently to exotic locales.
Les has cruised on a nuclear attack submarine deep in the Pacific Ocean and has climbed the highest peak in the Pyrenes. He has withstood -50F in the Arctic and tolerated 120F living with a Bedouin tribe in the Eastern desert of Egypt. He was nearly bitten by a sea lion in the Galapagos (never stand between a mother and her pup!) and was chased by a 16-foot alligator in South Africa (they are faster than you think!).
Les was named Best Travel Photographer for the prestigious Canada Northern Lights Award. He is in demand as a keynote speaker, lecturer and judge for photography competitions. Les also leads photography adventure tours throughout the world.
Les is a Moab Fine Art Master Photographer, an X-Rite Coloratti and an Awagami Ambassador. His print workshops are sponsored by Moab (a division of Legion Paper).
Les is also a novelist and his books can be found here
“I feel blessed to be able to write and photograph for a living,” Les says. “If my photographs help people better appreciate our natural world – and its fragility – then I feel I have accomplished a worthy life goal.”
Robert Boyer
Bob is our in-house Master Printer and tech guru, as well as an accomplished studio photographer and master of lighting. Bob handles all our fine art printing and technical matters. He crafts our museum-quality prints, as well as wall coverings and other display options for clients. He is the interface between Les' artwork and commercial or specialty displays.
Bob also co-instructs our fine art printing workshops, as well as other in-studio workshops.