Internationally known nature photographer, artist, author and speaker, Connie Bransilver, has photographed on all seven continents. She brings images and inspirational prose to audiences seeking clarity, passion, and purpose. Wild Love Affair: Essence of Florida’s Native Orchids, and Florida’s Unsung Wilderness: The Swamps, offer personal and spiritual explorations of wilderness. She is published widely in local, national and international books and magazines, and she has appeared on numerous television and radio shows. Her fine-art prints hang in institutions and private collections throughout the world, but above all she captures the emotion of nature and brings it to viewers, readers and listeners.
  
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  • Wild Love Affair: Essence of Florida’s Native Orchids, by Connie Bransilver, Foreword by Eric Hansen, Preface by Stuart Pimm, Ph. D., Essays by Paul Martin Brown and John Beckner. Westcliffe Publishers, 2004, is much more than an orchid book. It is a journey into the very soul of wilderness and a reflection of the power and grace of the human spirit. Bransilver’s photographs are at once precise and ethereal, literal and figurative, and they capture the mystery and allure of her beloved wild orchids while exposing a bit of her own soul. Her photographs are accompanied by educative essays as well as tales of orchid love, lust, discovery and destruction. Together, the images and prose illustrate the importance and complexity of orchid conservation and reveal the vital need for all of us to seek and cherish the beauty and wildness around us, and even more importantly, the wildness in our hearts. Buy this book

  • Florida’s Unsung Wilderness: The Swamps, by Connie Bransilver and Larry Richardson. Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall, OBE. Westcliffe Publishers, 2000, invites the reader to explore the exquisite beauty of Southwest Florida’s swamplands. Through brilliant photography and evocative, informative prose, this book highlights the diversity and complexity of this unique, water-dependent environment. Buy this book

  • Board of Directors of the NANPA Infinity Foundation. President of NANPA (North American Nature Photography Assn.,) 2001 www.nanpa.org/

  • Vice-Chair, Images for Conservation Fund, the Pro-Tour of Nature Photography.

  • Fellow in the Explorers Club, (FN’96), based on work with lemurs of Madagascar.

  • Active in the Jane Goodall Institute. Base Camp Leader. www.janegoodall.org

  • Founding Chairperson, Duke University Primate Center Board of Visitors.

  • Born and reared in Albuquerque, New Mexico. B.A. from Duke University. J. D. from University of New Mexico Law School.

  • Legislative Assistant, US House of Representatives.

  • Practiced international commercial law in London, England.

  • Private Banker covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Merrill Lynch International Bank, London.

  • Founding Board member of the Women’s Playhouse Trust in London, a West End theatre company.

  • Founding member, City Women’s Network, London, England.
 
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