Award Winning Travel Photographer Susan Seubert wins NATJA Award

It is my great pleasure to announce that I am the proud recipient of an award from the North American Travel Journalists Association, known as NATJA, for excellence in photography in the category of portraiture.  The winning story is called, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”  It was published in the January/February 2011 issue of National Geographic [...]

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Travel Photographer Susan Seubert named in National Geographic Traveler’s top ten photos of 2011

National Geographic Traveler Magazine senior photo editor Dan Westergren posted today his selects for the top 10 photos from 2011 and I was pleasantly surprised to be included.  The selected photo was from a shoot at Zed’s Surfing School in Barbados, which was the opener for a story I shot about the island nation that [...]

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Maui Editorial Photographer Susan Seubert

Aloha All!  Just a brief post to update my location.  I’ll be based at Kaanapali near Lahaina on the island of Maui until November 22.  After completing my first two assignments, I am back in the water, surfing.  The weather, as usual, has been stunning with days filled with sunshine, trade winds keeping the temperatures [...]

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Commercial, Editorial Photographer Susan Seubert heading to Maui

Tomorrow, April 20th, marks the beginning of another adventure in the Aloha State where Susan Seubert will be based for four weeks.  With headquarters on Ka’anapali Beach, she’ll certainly be spending many mornings surfing and enjoying the tail end of the Humpback whale season,  the large cetaceans that migrate to this area every year from [...]

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surfing and the business of photography

Most of my blog posts are for announcements about publications and upcoming events that pertain to my business as an editorial or fine art photographer, but after taking some time off from work and spending that time surfing, I’ve had a few epiphanies about surfing as it relates to my career as a photographer.  In [...]

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national geographic travel photographer Susan Seubert’s Barbados Story

Greetings!  It is again, with great pleasure, that I am able to announce that the story I shot for National Geographic Traveler about Barbados is now on the newsstands. This is the second major assignment I’ve shot in the Caribbean for National Geographic Traveler. The last story was about Unique Hotels of the Caribbean.  This [...]

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editorial photographer Susan Seubert headed to Hawaii

As you may know, I divide my time between Portland, Oregon and Maui, Hawaii.  Starting on October 14, 2010, after a brief shoot in Oahu, I’ll be based in Maui.  If I don’t answer the phone, it’s probably because I’m here (see below:-).  Aloha!    

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Portland commercial and editorial photographer Susan Seubert heading to Maui

Tomorrow we fly to Maui for six glorious weeks.  The humpback whales should still be around and the water temperature will exceed the average air temperature in Portland by at least 20 degrees.  With my Canon 5D Mark II cameras in hand, I’ll be fully equipped to shoot whatever assignments come my way.  Hopefully we’ll [...]

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Maui Photographer Susan Seubert, enjoying the whales

On mornings like this one, the surface of the ocean is glassy, the winds have died down and the sun is still behind the West Maui Mountains but is, from this vantage point on Ka’anapali Beach, lighting up the island of Lana’i in such a way that every valley on the windward side is placed [...]

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Maui Vog Sunset

Last night was one of a series of glorious sunsets here on the leeward side of Maui.  We’ve taken to our normal habit of having a glass of wine and toasting to the end of another incredible day.  Last night, because of some light vog, we had a particularly colorful sunset.  Here are some photos [...]

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