- Dewitt Jones
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Dewitt Jones is one of America's best known professional photographers. His daily photographic posts on Facebook are seen by thousands of viewers.
He has been a photographer for more than 40 years. Twenty years as a freelance photographer for National Geographic earned him a reputation as a world class photojournalist.
As a motion picture director, he had two films nominated for Academy Awards (Climb - Best Live Action Short Film and John Muir's High Sierra - Best Short Subject Documentary) before he was thirty [1]: Climb (1974) and John Muir's High Sierra (1974).
Jones rose to the forefront of corporate creative marketing, photographing national advertising campaigns for Dewar's Scotch, Canon, and United Airlines.
He has published nine books, including California!, Visions of Wilderness, What The Road Passes By, Robert Frost; A Tribute To The Source, Canyon Country and John Muir’s High Sierra. One of his most recent books, The Nature of Leadership was created in collaboration with Stephen R. Covey (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People).
Dewitt's column, Basic Jones, has been a mainstay of Outdoor Photographer magazine for over 18 years. In it Dewitt explores the spiritual side of photography.
Dewitt is also recognized as a world class lecturer. Every year he speaks to corporations and associations throughout the world about creativity and vision.
Dewitt has also produced a number of Training films. "Celebrate What's Right with the World" is one of the top selling training films ever made.
He is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Drama and holds a Masters Degree in film making from UCLA.
Books and Articles
He has written nine books: California!, Visions of Wilderness, What the Road Passes By, Robert Frost, A Tribute to the Source, Canyon Country, John Muir's High Sierra, and The Nature of Leadership which was created with Stephen R. Covey.
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