NVPS welcomes back an emerging talent in nature photography, Alex Mody—winner of the Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice International 2009 Youth Photographer of the Year Award.  Alex specializes in landscape photography, and his nature images have been featured in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Nature’s Best Photography Magazine, Elan Magazine, N-Photo Magazine, as well as on a number of websites including Discovery Channel.com and MSNBC.com. In addition, Alex has written numerous articles for NatureScapes.net, and offers both private and full-group landscape and nature photography workshops. Alex, just 22 years old, lives in damp and beautiful Olympia, Washington, where he attends The Evergreen State College.  Alex will primarily show images featuring landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, and the artistic and technical methods he employs to capture them.