Personal Background
John Shaw was born in 1944 and still lives to this day, he is an American Photographer that started in the 70's and since then has been noticed by National Geographic and many other magazines like it. Some of the awards that he received in his career were the 1997 first ever Outstanding Photography award which was given by the North American Nature Photographer Association, and in 2019 he won the Lifetime Achievements award.
Style
His style of photography is mainly American nature, but he has taken photos in every continent even the Arctic and Antarctica. Lots of his work over the years has been recognized by many industries and even published 7 of his own books.
Philosophy
John Shaw takes nature photo's for a couple of reasons, one of those reasons is that he wants to show what why we should take care of the planet so we can keep and the beautiful parts of it alive. John likes to take photos of less known areas, he likes these smaller areas because there aren't as many photos of these areas, unlike some of the more famous landscapes in the world.