Kathy Adams Clark
Kathy Adams Clark has been a professional nature photographer since 1995.
Kathy’s photos have been published in hundreds of places including Family Fun,, Nature's Best, New York Times, Birder's World, and Ranger Rick. AAA Journey, Texas Parks & Wildlife and Texas Highways magazines have used Kathy’s photos on their cover. Her photos have also appeared in a numerous books and calendars including the Barnes & Noble Ireland Countryside Calendar, the cover of the Arbor Foundation Rainforest Calendar, and the Sierra Engagement Calendar. Kathy’s photos of Houston were compiled into a calendar offered in Costco in 2016.
Her photos appear every week in the "Nature" column in the Houston Chronicle written by her husband, Gary Clark. Kathy and Gary have worked with national publishing houses to produce ten books that combine their photography and writing skills. Their latest books are Book of Texas Birds published by Texas A&M University Press and Backroads of Texas published by Voyageur Press.
Kathy’s photography is featured in Portrait of Houston published in 2012 by Farcountry Press. Photographing Big Bend National Park, published in 2013 by Texas A&M Press, is written by Kathy and uses her photography throughout.
Kathy is Past-president of the North American Nature Photography Association. She teaches photography and is a popular speaker at local and national events. She leads photo tours through Strabo Tours to countries including Costa Rica, Brazil, Spain, Africa, Italy, Peru, Morocco, and Norway.
Experiences with Kathy
Boat Trip & Workshop: Photography Lessons on the Water
Join Kathy Adams Clark for this trip along the calm waters of Port Aransas. Concentrate on birds as they fly overhead and perch on the shorelines. Possible species include brown pelican, white pelican, osprey, cormorants, egrets, herons, gulls, and maybe a raptor or two. Scott Holt and Ruth Hoyt will join Kathy to help participants learn photography techniques and tricks.
Field Trip: Flight and Action at the Jetty
Port Aransas Beach near the Jetty is the perfect place to photograph birds in flight. This workshop will start with the camera settings needed to stop action. Then participants will photograph birds as they fly along the beach and jetty. Possible species include Bonaparte’s and laughing gull, brown pelican, ruddy turnstone, and willet.
Workshop: Bird Photography Processing – Keep it Simple and Real
Follow along with Kathy Adams Clark as she demonstrates basic, simple photo processing in Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw. Emphasis will be batch processing bird photographs captured in RAW format. Kathy will cover keywords and metadata and why these are so critical in your processing workflow.
Workshop: Photographing Birds in Action
Kathy will teach participants techniques for hand-holding a camera for action and flight work. She will explain why it is important to select the proper ISO, shutter speed, and focus points to capture the perfect image. Tripods will be discussed including how to select a tripod that is right for action work, working with the ball head, and gimbal head.
You will learn how to work in different lighting conditions to get the best results, how to select the best photos from what you created (focus, wing position, flight direction, body position, etc.), and how to anticipate behavior before you take the shot. Kathy will also cover the use of slow shutter speeds to create interesting and effective action shots.