Alright, I found this photographer in a similar way I did the last one; He did work in video that I'm familiar with. I first read about a documentary called The Last of the Great Unknown in BackPacker magazine two years ago, immediately looked up the website, and watched the trailer more than 20 times, I'm sure, waiting to see if it would ever be released. I finally got to see it at a showing of the touring Telluride Mountain Film Festival when it came through St. Louis last winter. The shots these guys got in the Grand Canyon slots are incredible. The only thing disappointing was the length of the film. You can find the preview for the doc here. http://www.lastofthegreatunknown.com/

Anyways, I remembered that they did a lot of the shooting with DSLRs since the remote places they were trying to get to required the lightest most compact gear, so I was pretty sure some of the crew were more photographers than videographers. And I was right.

The guy's name is Dan Ransom. Hes a professional photographer and canyoneer from Salt Lake City, Utah. Canyoneering is sort of a very specific offshoot of hiking, belaying and rock climbing. They explore deep, remote canyons, using those skills, among others, to get there. A lot of these places have never been seen before. One really interesting thing about Dan, is that the photography comes first. He is more interested in getting to beautiful places, he says. The climbing, belaying and hiking are just a means to the end for him. It is the destination, not the journey, in his mind. I really like this outlook, because in the world we live in today, everyone is taking pictures everyday. We're running out of things to shoot that haven't been shot before, so to find those things, you have to work for them. He does that, and the pay off is not just getting the shots no one has gotten before him, but getting shots of things no one has even seen before him. I imagine that has to be the best feeling for a photographer.

I think anyone will appreciate checking out his work here. http://www.danransom.com/portfolio/