Photo by Robert Cardinal

David Cardinal is a long-time wildlife photographer who specializes in North American mammals and birds. His images of creatures in the wild help communicate the importance of our natural heritage and our responsibility to preserve it. David's clients include non-profit and socially responsible institutions such as the BBC, California State Parks Foundation, the City of Palo Alto, San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, Bay Trails, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Bay Nature and Western Birding magazines. David's work is part of the permanent exhibit at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Center and has been featured in exhibitions at the Palo Alto Civic Center, the Seipp, Works and Allegro galleries, the Watsonville Wetlands Nature Center, on calparks.org, and on portolavalley.net. David is co-author with Moose Peterson of The D1 Generation, and has had his articles and images appear in publications including Outdoor Photographer, Studio Photography & Design, Photoshop User, PC Magazine and Dr Dobbs Journal.  

Clients Include:

• National Wildlife Federation (2010 Calendar)
• BBC Books / Profile Press (Book cover)
• California State Parks Foundation (Website, Poster & Brochure images)
• San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) (Brochure, Marketing &  Website images)
• Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO, Annual Report Cover)
• California Department of Fish & Game (Educational & Outreach images)
• US Fish & Wildlife Service (Educational & Outreach Images, Assignment photography)
• KPCB (Kleiner-Perkins) (Al Gore press event assignment photographer)
• Sybex (John Wiley & Sons) (Book Cover for Tim Grey's Color Confidence)
• Peachpit Press (Book Cover for Dan Margulis Professional Photoshop)
• Pierce Landscaping (Website & Advertising images)
• Silver Salmon Creek Lodge (Website & Promotional images)
• Microsoft & MSN Photo (Digital Imaging Consultant, Digital Imaging Advisory Group member, Contributing Author and Photographer)
• Silicon Valley Audubon (Brochure cover image, speaker)
• Sequoia Audubon (speaker)
• City of Watsonville (Contributing photographer to permanent wetlands wildlife display)
• City of Palo Alto (Contributing photographer to Lucy Evans Nature Center Educational Exhibits as well as temporary City exhibits downtown)
• Town of Portola Valley (Website images)
• Bay Trails project, Association of Bay Area Governments (Trail Map images)
• American Prairie Foundation (Brochure & Marketing images)
• Smith Barney (Client Talk on Digital Photography)
• Lexar Imaging, Lexar Pro Photographer (Image and Article Contributor)
• Atalasoft (Digital Imaging Software Design and Development Consulting, Case Study)
• Draper, Inc. (Product Catalog Image and Article)
• Bio-Habitats (Endangered Species Consulting firm) (Education/Outreach images)
• Lensbabies (Site sponsor)
• Photodex, Site Sponsor and David is a Photodex Featured Photographer
• Tour Mandalay (Brochure Image)
• ESPN Rise
• Southern California USTA
• Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), United Kingdom Government

Publications Include:

• PC Magazine (Stories, Photographs, Solutions & Tips)
• Outdoor Photographer (Article & Photos)
• Studio Photography & Design (Article & Photos)
• Palo Alto Daily News (Articles, Photos)
• The Country Almanac (Articles, Photos)
• Inside Look Magazine (Full Page Photo Illustration)
• The BT Journal (Articles and Photos)
• California Parklands Magazine (Cover Photo & Story)
• Zoo Views (San Francisco Zoo) (Cover Photo)
• Stanford Nature Guide to Lake Tahoe Basin (Largest Photo Contributor)
• Bay Nature (Photos) (Photos)
• Western Birding (Inside Cover Photo)
• Color Confidence (Cover photo)
• Professional Photoshop 5th Edition (Cover Photo)
• ASMP Mid-Atlantic (Article and Photos)
• Photoshop User (Cover Story January 2007 & Photos)
• DigitalPro Shooter Newsletter (Editor 2001-2008)
• Dr. Dobbs Journal, Components for Image Management, May 2007
• Lexar Pro Tip, Make your Flash Cards work Overtime with Vista ReadyBoost
• The D1 Generation, Moose Press, 2001
• American Photo, Editors' Choice Award for DigitalPro Software
• More From Our Own Correspondent, Profile Books (Cover & Back Cover Photo)
• San Mateo Daily Journal (Sports photos)
• MobilitySite, Microsoft's OneNote -- A More Flexible Solution

Exhibits, Shows & selected talks include:

• Stanford HDR Symposium, Panel on HDR Image Capture & Tonemapping
• Talk & Slideshow, Photographing the Temples & People of Southeast Asia, Wildlife Photographers of Silicon Valley, January, 2009
• BBC Wildlife Contest 2007 & 2008, 3 finalist, 17 semi-finalist images
• NANPA Expressions 2007, 2008, featured images
• Allegro Gallery Woodside, Ca, Permanent Collection
• One artist show, Atherton Library, Atherton, 2007
• Talk on Raw Files, Google Education Talk, Google Corporation, Mt. View, 2007
• One artist show, Allegro Fine Art, Portola Valley, 2007
• Natures Inspirations, Committee for Green Foothills, 2006
• One artist show, Seipp Gallery, Palo Alto, 2006
• Alviso Centeniel at The Works Gallery, San Jose
• Photos on permanent display at Palo Alto Baylands
• Photos on permanent display at Watsonville Wetlands
• Photos on display for Earth Day, Palo Alto Civic Center
• Guest Photographer, Innaugural Digital Landscape Workshop Series, Moab, Utah
• NANPA 2007 Showcase Award winner
• One artist Show Allegro Framing & Art Gallery (April, 2007)
• Talk and Slideshow: Birds of the Bay Area, Bay Area Bird Photographers
• Talk and Slideshow: Cambodia & Burma, Bay Area Bird Photographers
• Talk and Slideshow: Animals of Central Alaska, Bay Area Bird Photographers
• Guest Photographer, DLWS Yosemite
• Talk and Slideshow: Birds & Bears of the Cook Inlet, Bay Area Bird Photographers & Sequoia Audubon
• Cambodia & Burma, Sequoia Audubon and Bay Area Bird Photographers
• Photographing on Safari, Wildlife Photographers of Silicon Valley
• Group co-Lead & Photo Instructor, Wilderness Safaris, Botswana & Namibia, 2005 to Present
• Group co-Lead & Photo Instuctor, Africa Photo Adventures and Journey's Unforgettable
• Sulawesi, Wildlife & Culture, Bay Area Bird Photographers
• Group Leader & Photo Instructor, Southeast Asia Safaris featuring Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Thailand, 2005 to Present
• Group Leader & Photo Instructor, Alaska Grizzly Bear & Horned and Tufted Puffin Photo Safaris, 2000 to Present
• Group Leader & Photo Instructor, Birds of the Bay Area
• Group Leader & Photo Instructor, Monterey Bay Mammals & Birds
• Group Leader & Photo Instructor, Michigan Fall Color Workshops
• Princeton Club of Northern California, Southeast Asia Travel Safari Talk, September, 2008
• Introduction to Digital Photography, Smith-Barney Private Client Group, 2008
• Introduction to Bird Photography, City of Palo Alto Adult Education
  
   

Spring Cleaning for Your PC, March 2009 and May 2009 Issue

Infrared Digital Photography, December, 2008

Make something new with your old Digital Camera, October, 2008

Photoshop Editing Expert Tips, June and July 2008

Tips for better Point & Shoot Photography, April 2008

Securing your e-Mail & Instant Messaging, March, 2008

Adding Items to Outlook Automatically, February, 2008

New Features for Long Documents in Microsoft Word, October, 2007

Note Taking Goes to the Next Level, June, 2007

Location, Location, Location November, 2005
... or Google Maps. David Cardinal is a professional photographer and software author. Visit his site, www.proshooters.com. Make your ...

Make Your Photos Great!, March, 2005
We turned to two of our frequent contributors, David Cardinal and Galen Fott, to show you how it's done. David, a ...

Landscape 
Product Guides > Article - 2005-03-16 - Ben Gottesman
Ben Gottesman Expert: David Cardinal Image Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS Arches Park in Utah has many spectacular photo opportunities ...

Candid 
Product Guides > Article - 2005-03-16 - Ben Gottesman
Ben Gottesman Expert: David Cardinal Image Editor: Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 Halloween shots are guaranteed to be colorful, but ...

Photos in the RAW 
Expert Help > Article - 2004-08-17
... David Cardinal is a professional photographer and software author. He publishes the Web site nikondigital.org as an information ...

Troubleshooting Your Images 
Expert Help > Article - 2004-12-22
... Continue to get to know your camera's capabilities and settings. For more, read " Know Your Camera ". David Cardinal is a professional nature photographer. ...

Sports 
Product Guides > Article - 2005-03-16 - Ben Gottesman
Ben Gottesman Expert: David Cardinal Image Editor: Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 Pro-sports images are typified by close-ups of action ...

Digital Photography Travel Tips June, 2005
... David Cardinal is a professional photographer and software author. He publishes the Web site www.nikondigital.org (an information ...

DARPA Grand Challenge Preview, October, 2005
... Click here to see the slideshow: DARPA Grand Challenge Preview. David Cardinal is a professional photographer and software author. ...

Everyday Photography 
Product Guides > Article - 2006-05-31 - Cade Metz
... When wildlife photographer David Cardinal isn't writing articles on digital photography for PC Magazine, he's leading photo safaris to all corners of the world ...

Cool Camera Projects, May, 2004
... David Cardinal is a professional photographer and software author. He publishes the Web site www.nikondigital.org (an information ...

Beyond Point-and-Shoot, August, 2002 
... David Cardinal is a professional wildlife photographer, author, and software developer. He is co-author of The D1 Generation (Moose ...

Architecture, March, 2005
Ben Gottesman with Expert: David Cardinal Image Editor: Paint Shop Pro 9 Like many sunrises, this one, taken through a temple archway ...

Vista Tip: Readyboost, March, 2007 
... it out to use it in your camera. — David Cardinal, freelance writer. With Vista's ReadyBoost, you can use any high-performance ...

IE7 Tip: IE Without Add-Ons, March 2007 
... You can also manage which add-ons are enabled, in Tools | Manage Add-ons, after you've started IE7. — David Cardinal, freelance writer. ...

Vista Tip: Raw Images, March, 2007
... David Cardinal, freelance writer. Vista's new Photo Gallery is powerful and flexible, but out of the box, it works with JPEG and TIFF images only. ...

Converting to a D-SLR, PC Magazine, Thailand

Portola Valley photographer David Cardinal shares his 'World Views' in exhibition, The Almanac, April 4, 2007

Tech-savvy Photographer, ECM Blog, April 2008

Not just another pretty bird, The Almanc, April 25, 2007

Where the Buffalo Roam, Palo Alto Weekly, March, 2006

Destinations: Shooting wildlife with a camera, The Almanac, June 29, 2005

Nature's Inspirations features local artists, The Almanac, October 4, 2006

Preserving Parkland with a Camera, California State Parks Parklands Magazine, August 8, 2003

David is on the board of Pictopia, Inc

Cardinal Photo is an affliate of Amazon, Zazzle, Blurb & B&H Photo

David is a member of PPA, NAPP and NANPA. Cardinal Photo is a Corporate member of NANPA.

David graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1981, concentrating in digital imaging and algorithms, and was awarded the Joseph Clifton Elgin prize for contribution to the Engineering School. After stints at Amdahl Computer and nearly a decade at Sun Microsystems in a variety of positions including director of their consulting and sales support organizations and General Manager of their Applications Division, he founded FirstFloor Software in 1992, which merged with Calico Commerce where he was CTO until founding Cardinal Photo (Pro Shooters LLC) in 2000, where he is the principal owner along with his wife Lorrie Duval.

A limited number of David's Stock images are available from:

• Alamy (very limited selection)
• PhotographersDirect (images provided for specific projects)
• TSS (TSS Photo, images of Namibia)
• Green Stock Media (eco & 'green' image collection)

A selection of prints is on display at Allegro Gallery in Woodside, California

For prints and a full selection of images please email stock [at] cardinalphoto.com