William Neill - Light on the Landscape: Photographs and Lessons from a Life in Photography

William Neill, a resident of the Yosemite National Park area since 1977, is a landscape photographer concerned with conveying the deep, spiritual beauty he sees and feels in nature. Neills award-winning photography has been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, and 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 received a BA degree in Environmental Conservation at the University of Colorado. In 1995, Neill received the Sierra Clubs Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography.

Neills assignment and published credits include National Geographic, Smithsonian, Natural History, National Wildlife, Conde Nast Traveler, Gentlemens Quarterly, Travel and Leisure, Wilderness, Sunset, Sierra, and Outside magazines. He also 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, Freidrich Grohe, Neutrogena, Sony Music/Classical, University of Cincinnati, and UBS Global Asset Management.

Neills work was chosen to illustrate two special edition books published by The Nature Company, Rachel Carsons The Sense of Wonder and John Fowless The Tree. His photographs were also published in a three-book series on the art and science of natural process, in collaboration with the Exploratorium Museum of San Francisco: By Natures Design (Exploratorium/Chronicle Books, 1993), The Color of Nature (Exploratorium/Chronicle Books, 1996), and Traces of Time (Chronicle Books/Exploratorium, 2000). A publication of a portfolio of his Yosemite photographs entitled Yosemite: The Promise of Wildness (Yosemite Association, 1994) earned him The Directors Award from the National Park Service. A monograph of his landscape photography entitled Landscapes of the Spirit (Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1997) relates his beliefs in the healing power of nature. Neills book William NeillPhotographer: A Retrospective (Triplekite Publishing, 2017) is a collection of his photographs taken over the past forty years.