ABOUT RODDY
Roddy Scheer is a Seattle-based photographer specializing in nature, the outdoors, environmental issues and travel. His stock coverage includes Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, the Pacific Northwest and Peru. He is a member of AGPix and also contributes stock photography to the Danita Delimont Agency. His stock collection includes more than 10,000 images and is growing every week. His photographs have appeared in numerous books, magazines, websites and advertisements.
Meanwhile, Roddy's fine art prints, which are for sale directly via this website, have been featured in two solo exhibitions. "Mt. St. Helens: 25 Years Later" ran for two years at the Coldwater Ridge Visitor Center at the Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument before the facility closed last year. The exhibit featured photos he took of the recently re-awakened volcano in southwest Washington. Several of these shots and others appeared in the 2005 update of KC Publications' In Pictures book, Mount St. Helens: The Continuing Story. Also, the August 2004 exhibit "A Day in the Life of Butter Island," which featured images taken over a 24 hour period spent on one of Penobscot Bay's most beautiful wild islands, sold out in one day. Additionally, his work is on display in a variety of corporate and retail locations around Seattle.
As of June 2006, Roddy has been shooting with Nikon digital SLR cameras. He still uses film in his panoramic Horizon camera. While most of his new work is done using digital technology, he also manages a collection of more than some 10,000 medium format and 35mm slide transparencies.
When he is not out in the field taking pictures, Roddy writes about environmental issues for E/The Environmental Magazine, where he serves as Contributing Editor. His regular duties include providing environmental news round-ups for the magazine's weekly e-mail newsletter Our Planet, and researching and answering reader questions on a wide range of environmental topics for the internationally syndicated "Earth Talk" column. Additionally, he contributes timely original news and feature reporting to the magazine on a regular basis. He has written major features for E on the fate of America's national wildlife refuge system and on efforts to stave off a cataclysmic failure of marine ecosystems around the world. A collection of his "Earth Talk" answers is scheduled to be published in book form in the Fall of 2008.
Roddy is also a Regular Contributor at Seattle Magazine, where he writes the bi-monthly Outdoors column on getting off the couch and out into nature in and around the city of Seattle. He also writes travel and environmental features for the magazine on a frequent basis. His March 2007 "Green Guide" garnered First Place for a Personal Service News/Feature story from the Society of Professional Journalists' Western Washington chapter at their recent annual awards ceremony (and Roddy has the plaque to prove it). His first piece ever for Seattle Magazine, a September 2004 travel article on the Palouse region of eastern Washington, was awarded an Honorable Mention for Lifestyle/Leisure Reporting from SPJ's Western Washington Chapter as well.
Besides his on-going editorial work for E/The Environmental Magazine and Seattle Magazine, Roddy's writing has appeared in Northwest Travel, American Photo, PhotoMedia, Wildflower, Northwest Home+Garden, Seattle Business Monthly and other publications. Among many other topics, he has written several articles documenting different aspects of his experiences at Mt. St. Helens. Check out some selected writing clips on the Articles page...
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