Reed Award for Environmental writing.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/07/cahaba_lilies.html
Alabama Waterways Photography Exhibit
Mobile Press Review of Headwaters: a Journey on Alabama Rivers
Recent News Stories
April 3rd, 2010Headwaters wins the Reed Environmental Writing Award
March 29th, 2010John Hall has won the Reed Environmental Writing Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center.
This is the brief talk he gave at the event. You will love this!
Exhibits and Art Sales for Nov-Dec 2009
November 5th, 2009
Lite Box Gallery - Nov 5 thru Dec 23 Open Thur – Sat Noon to 5:00 pm
Located in the Dr. Pepper Complex on 2nd Ave South.
This show has a lot of different artists with work priced for the holidays. I have some new and very different work as well as many copies of Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers and note cards.
Freshwater Land Trust – Artscape
November 19th Avondale Park Theater.
Check out the work of the artists that will be auctioning their work and buy tickets to the event on line
Cahaba - River of Riches
November 5th, 2009
Perry Lakes Park is one of the most amazing places in Alabama.
http://www.zinio.com/pages/SmithsonianMagazine/Aug-09/416091491/pg-30
Smithsonian Magazine published a major story on the Cahaba River in the August issue! Michelle Nihjuis spent a week with us exploring the river and getting a full dose of Cahaba 101. She did an amazing job of sifting through huge amounts of information to write a great story about the river. I loved working with her and really loved photographing a place I care so much about. You can view the article here.
This made front page in the Birmingham News
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/statebriefs.ssf?/base/news/1248250626233890.xml&coll=2
Headwaters News and Signings
March 13th, 2009Just out!
Smithsonian Magazine • The Cahaba: a River of Riches.
August 2009
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/River-of-Riches.html
Birmingham New July 21
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/statebriefs.ssf?/base/news/1248250626233890.xml&coll=2
Front Page of the Birmingham News - July 3rd
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/07/cahaba_lilies.html
Tom Spencer wrote a beautiful piece about how far we have come preserving places in Alabama and our attitudes toward those places.
Book signings and talks:
•The Maralyn Wilson Gallery
July 24 5;30-8:30 Maralyn Wilson will host a show and a book signing.We are raffeling a large framed photograph that was taken 20 years ago of the Cahaba lilies, to support the Cahaba River Society. Maralyn’s Gallery is always a fun place with really interesting art and people, so come join us! click on the link below to purchase raffle tickets.
https://kingfishereditions.com/email/raffle.html
•August 20 Anniston Library 5:00 pm John Hall speaking about the rivers of Alabama / then we both will be available for a book signing.
•August 28 Sertoma Club 12:00 noon Altadena Country Club. I will be speaking about the Headwaters Journey and signing books.
• September 20 Gorham’s Bluff 3:00 pm. John Hall and I both will be speaking and signing the Headwaters book.
•Alabama Museum of Natural History – Headwaters Photography Exhibit
On display through August. Buy the photographs off the wall to support the Museum.
Listen to John Hall on NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104104547
Mobile Press Register
http://www.al.com/books/mobileregister/jsledge.ssf?/base/entertainment/1241514940307260.xml&coll=3
Birmingham News
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/metro.ssf?/base/news/1240042549159050.xml&coll=2
Portico Magazine
http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=408290892&o=ext
Thicket Magazine
http://thicketmag.com/content/?p=495
Book Signings –
•Little Professor Book Store
•Milestone Books
•Alabama Rivers Alliance Conservation Photography exhibit is on-line
http://www.alabamarivers.org/alabama-waterways-photo-exhibit
Sale of these photographs will benefit the Alabama Rivers Alliance.
Tis the Season for Prescribed Burns
February 23rd, 2009
TNC Prairie burn
http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/Cahawba%20Prairie%20Burn/index.html
Tarklin Bayou and Blackwater River State Forest Burn
http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/Tarklin_Blackwater_Burn/index.html
Blackwater
http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/Blackwater_Burn/
DeSoto National Forest
http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/DeSoto_Burn/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luS1F_eRql8
Briar Creek Eglin AFB
http://www.kingfishereditions.com/img/FL_Briar_Creek_Eglin_AFB/
Mossy Pond
Chris Chantland’s Sporting Artisans web site
January 22nd, 2009
Chris Chantland is an artist from Michigan with a vision for a web site dedicated to selling the work of some amazing artists, including my friend Jack Tribble and his bird carvings. It is truly worth a visit and while you are there listen to some of the music he has companioned with my photographs.
Carol Cook Hagood’s story in Walden Institute Library
January 22nd, 2009Carol Hagood interviewed me last year for a presentation to the New Cue writers conference. I thought she made great sense of my chaotic life and career. You can read her story here: http://www.walden.org/institute/Collections/NewCUE/NewCUE2008/Hagood.pdf
In Flow: A Passion for Place - A Case for Conservation in the Work of Photographer
Beth Maynor Young
― Based on a January 10, 2008 interview ―by Carol Cook Hagood
Presented at the New-CUE― Nature and Environmental Writers, College and University Educators ―
Fifth Environmental Writers’ Conference In Honor of Rachel Carson
Booth Harbor, Maine, 10-13 June 2008
TEXT PREPARED BY THE THOREAU INSTITUTE AT WALDEN WOODS
WITH PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR NO PIECE MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR ©2008
Locust Fork-One of the oldest rivers in the world.
January 22nd, 2009
Locust Fork - One of the oldest rivers in the world.
Recently the writer Todd Keith accompanied geologist Jim Lacefield to the Locust Fork to learn about one of the world’s oldest rivers. You can read Todd’s article and see the video at the Thicket webiste. http://thicketmag.com/content/?p=353
Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers
January 22nd, 2009
Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers
Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers, is the story of Alabama told by master story-teller John C. Hall, with photographs of Alabama’s rivers by conservation photographer Beth Maynor Young.
This book has been a long time in the making, Robin McDonald did a remarkable job uniting the story and the photographs into an extraordinary piece of work. The foreword by Rick Middleton, the Director of the Southern Environmental Law Center is very insightful. Headwaters is a very elegant and beautiful statement about Alabama. We are now one of the few states to have a book about our rivers.
News coverage:
Mobile Press Register
http://www.al.com/books/mobileregister/jsledge.ssf?/base/entertainment/1241514940307260.xml&coll=3
Birmingham News
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/metro.ssf?/base/news/1240042549159050.xml&coll=2
Portico Magazine
Thicket Magazine