Leighton Lum is a contemporary artist striving to capture the beauty in nature. His creative eye and passion for adventure, results in amazing photography. Leighton Lum is born and raised on the island of Oahu, and has traveled to many places, bringing a large variety to his photography from around the globe. 

From swimming with sharks to tracking down big polar bears in the arctic, Leighton has always had a love and passion for the great outdoors. As a boy living in paradise, his goal is to share the uniqueness of the world through his eyes.

Leighton hopes his photography inspires others and raises awareness about conservation to ensure future generations can enjoy nature the way it was meant to be seen.

HOMETOWN: ITALY

Francesco Gola is an Italian engineer who's fallen in love with photography. Born in Italy in 1981, as soon as he started taking pictures he fell in love with long exposures and seascapes.

For him, a long exposure is a parallel universe in which to escape from the frenzy of modern life and a source of inspiration that allows him to reveal the relationship between the outside world of Nature and the inside world of dreams, thoughts, emotions, desires, and wishes.

His passion for the sea and travels led him to visit some of the most iconic locations on this planet looking at them with different eyes. While continuing to travel in search of new landscapes to be photographed, he now lives and works in Milan where he collaborates with companies, sites, and magazines for the diffusion of photographic culture in Italy and in the world.

With a Jeep packed for adventure, US-based landscape photographer Lawrence roams untamed landscapes, capturing the beauty of nature in ways that tell a story. His images are more than just photographs; they are narratives that evoke emotion and inspire wonder. Through his work, Lawrence explores the deeper connection between the environment and its stories, inviting others to see the world through a more thoughtful and creative lens. He also offers hands-on workshops, guiding others in the art of visual storytelling.

HOME BASE: IRELAND

Fiona is a professional photographer and videographer based in Dublin, Ireland.  Passionate about recording life in pictures and video. She’s recalls from a young age she knew she could see the world of light, color and symmetry more obviously than others.

Today she is still striving to show the worlds spectacular beauty to all who need to see it. “People can be moved and changed by the beauty that is beyond their scope. That means I seek to be a visual story teller…a teacher…a guide”.  She lives for sports and the great outdoors and lives a fairly active lifestyle.  Rarely spotted without a camera in hand or a Go Pro attached, she misses no opportunity! 

“I love to travel and explore the most underpopulated places I can find”.  I’m delighted to be partnered with f-stop, who make incredible bags for all kinds of photographers and videographers! Stoked to be on the team."

Filip Hrebenda is a professional landscape photographer based in Slovakia. Since childhood, he has been fascinated by mountains and wilderness. Growing up in a small town in the heart of Slovakia, he was close to the high mountains – the High Tatras. And it was precisely here that his passion for hiking and photography began. From a young age, he sought out landscapes that were not common. Therefore, he often ventured into the mountains in extreme conditions. It was his passion for mountains and nature that eventually led him to photography. 

The message of his work is to convey the atmosphere of the photographed place and the feelings he had while photographing in challenging conditions to the viewers, thus allowing them to perceive the beauty of the wildest places in the world. Filip has received many prestigious awards for his art. His work has been published in the most important media in the world such as CNN, BBC, National Geographic, Forbes, The Guardian and others. His photographs have also been exhibited worldwide. Since 2018, Filip has been organizing photo expeditions and workshops, where he pass on his knowledge to other photographers.

Felis Creations is a visual arts company based in Bangalore, India.

It comprises a small team of talented individuals, who work on a variety of projects ranging from natural history documentaries to art and still photography. 

We have been covering wildlife and natural history for the past 10 years and have worked with broadcasters such as BBC, National Geographic, Animal planet and Discovery. 

Our most resent involvement was for BBC's Planet Earth II. 

HOME BASE: ITALY

Fabio is a photographer and a designer, but since he was young he has been inspired by traveling and meeting different cultures in different places. Before with his family, and after by himself, he moved to Ireland and Australia. Today he has still the same approach, he tries to live his journey by framing visions with my camera, without forgetting what is all around him: talking to people, learning about their habits and their food. The experiences he can live, approaching always as a guest wherever he goes, suggest that sometimes it's hard to capture on digital camera emotions, so he must protect them in his memories, in his mind, and in his heart. What he loves the most is organizing workshops where, besides teaching photography techniques, he is sharing with people the same experiences, forging different types of travelers.

Besides all the adventures he’s doing in nature, Fabio is a rider passionate about motorbikes and cars, a market where he works as an action photographer for a commercial advertising agency. On rainy days, he likes to stick in the studio for still-life photography, where he plays with lights and do-it-yourself stuff to make new effects, waiting for good weather to get out again.

Laurie’s photography is shaped by her experience in classical painting and her twenty-two years as an accomplished landscape photographer. Laurie’s images are created with a modern feel that brings the viewer into the natural scene. Her images are photographed and produced in a format created for large designer prints.  

Laurie gravitates towards winter scenes shot in extremely cold climates.  Shooting in extremely cold weather brings different challenges: storms, dangerous terrain, punishing altitudes, frost bite, wildlife, malfunctioning gear, frozen tripods, and wet clothes. Shooting in cold conditions is her passion and she is always carefully planning her next shoot.  

Staying in front of rapidly changing technology, with new gear, cameras, lenses, and post-processing education, allows Laurie to grow as an artist and capture scenes like no one else. Her specialty is fine art landscapes, environmental portraits and teaching landscape photography in the field. 

Erin Babnik is a full-time adventure landscape photographer, photography educator, writer, and speaker. She is known for her ambitious and expressive style of photography and for her adventurous approach in the field. Her dedication to outdoor photography evolved out of her years working as an art historian, photographing at archaeological sites and in museums for the purposes of teaching and research.

She subsequently spent years producing photographs on assignment before transitioning to her specialty of wilderness/adventure landscape photography and teaching photography workshops worldwide. Her work has appeared in well over a hundred publications, including books, magazines, and travel guides. Erin is honored to be a Canon Explorer of Light and is also a member of the illustrious nature photography team Photo Cascadia.

Laura Dyer was raised in South Africa, where she fell in love with the wild spaces of Africa and its magnificent wildlife. After a brief career working in financial services she committed full time to photography with an emphasis on photographic guiding and lodge work. 

You will find her out photographing wildlife throughout the world, with a focus on big cats and predators. From the rain storms over East Africa, the icy and frozen realm of the polar bear or the fascinating northern lights as they twist and turn in the night sky, her enthusiasm for nature is contagious. So why not join her out in the field! She offers a variety of travel options with mixed group trips, women-only departures and bespoke private photographic safaris through Africa, the Arctic and beyond. These have a focus on in-field learning, such as photographic techniques, animal behavior, predicting action, positioning, as well as post adventure Lightroom editing. She also offers lodge based shoots together with video production work alongside Beyond Africa Films and fellow f-stop ambassador Dan Clarkson. 

Laura has been awarded in various major regional and international photographic competitions such as Natures Best Photography and has had her work presented in a variety of magazines and newspapers world wide. She is currently working on a number of conservation projects based in Africa, as well as an exhibition in 2024 in aid of cheetah conservation. As ambassadors for nature, she believes we have a responsibility to not only showcase wildlife at its most beautiful, but to also impart and share that appreciation of the natural world with those around us, whether through sharing images, raising funds for conservation or teaching and showing people the beauty of our planet. The welfare of wildlife is always at the forefront of Laura’s work, and as such you will only find images of animals that remain wild and free being presented.