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Barbara Jordan Gallery

Barbara Jordan was born and raised in Long Beach, California. In 1966 she moved to Redlands, California where she and her husband raised their four children, Tony, Syd, Jaimi and Stacie. In 1977, after a divorce, Barbara went to work in the criminal justice field. In 1983, she married Donald W. Jordan, a criminal defense attorney. Barbara and Don now reside in San Bernardino, California. The marriage brought three step-children into Barbara's life, Ken, Kate and Dan. Barbara and Don now have four grandchildren. From 1979 until 1994, Barbara worked as a mitigation expert on death penalty cases. Her work kept her in the courtroom and in prisons working with defendants facing the death penalty. In 1994, after having worked on 42 death penalty cases, Barbara decided that it was time to retire from her work with death penalty defendants. Her passion for the outdoors led her to pursue a career as a nature photographer. Barbara begin studying photography through the New York Institute of Photography, as well as through in-the-field workshops with some of the country's leading photographers including Moose Peterson, Lewis Kemper, George Lepp and Stuart Scofield. After attending a Death Valley workshop with black and white photographers Rod Dresser and Richard Newman, Barbara became fascinated with black and white photography and darkroom work. She immediately built a darkroom in her home. In 1996, Barbara's first limited edition Black and White series was printed. Barbara now photographs in both color and black and white. In June of 1996, Barbara joined Ronn Patterson, Captain and Naturalist, aboard the Delphinus to photograph humpback whales in Southeast Alaska. The trip had such an impact on Barbara that since that time a good deal of her time has been spent photographing whales in Mexico, Alaska and Channel Islands National Park. She has photographed many whale species including humpbacks, orcas, fin, gray, minke, pilot, belugas and blue. In June of 1998, Barbara spent time in Denali National Park and in the Seward area where she photographed caribou, Dall sheep, moose, grizzly, porcupine and many other native species. In September of 1999 Barbara traveled to Silver Salmon Creek with Moose Peterson to photograph free roaming grizzlies. This opportunity to photograph the grizzlies on the ground rather than from a shooting platform was an incredible experience. In July 2000, Barbara returned to Alaska and travelled aboard Delphinus with Ronn Patterson and Tom Johnson. The trip turned out to be packed with incredible experiences, including calfing glaciers, rolling icebergs, grizzly bears, transcient orcas attacking a Stellar Sea Lion bull and an incredible breaching juvenile humpback. Alaska is still Barbara's favorite place to photograph. Barbara is now exhibiting in juried art shows as well as in her own gallery located in Sugarloaf, CA. In the coming year Barbara will be spending more time in her local mountains and plans on photographing landscapes, birds and animals native to the area. Barbara was first published in The Best Of Photography Annual: 1995 by Serbin Communications. In 1995 she was a finalist in the Sierra Club's annual photography contest. She has received commendations for her work from the National Wildlife Federation. In January of 1997, Barbara had her first article, Garbage Bear, published. Since that time she has had many photographs and articles published in the United States, Canada, South American and in Europe. In September of 1996, Barbara's web page took form. In January of 1998, Shutterbug Magazine featured Barbara's website in an article about photographers on the internet. Although the web site is a photography site, Barbara has attempted to put emphasis on the environment and endangered species. Barbara has a special desire to educate children about the environment by developing their interest in the animals and their habitat needs. She has been most encouraged by the interest in her website and photography shown by the many visitors that have emailed her. She hopes that her photography will have an effect on others by causing them to touched by the beauty of nature. These pictures were taken with a Kodak 280 Digital Camera over the past several years. From monement to moment, as the sun and clouds interact, the beauty and starkness of the scenery is gorgous. Enjoy. • To view more great photographs by Barbara Jordan please visit her web site Natural Photography by Barbara Jordan www.barbarajordan.com August, 2001

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