Photographing the World: A Guide to Photographing 201 of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth
Tom Till is one of America's most published photographers. Over 250,000 of his images have appeared in print since 1977. In 1998, Till opened the Tom Till Gallery in Moab, Utah. Till's images depict landscape, nature, history, and travel subjects worldwide, including all fifty states and nearly sixty countries overseas. Till's stock photography images have been featured by National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, Outside Magazine, Canon Copiers, Delta Airlines, The New Yorker Magazine, Life Magazine, Browntrout Calendars, Eastman Kodak, Reader's Digest, Rand McNally, MGM, Arizona Highways, Lonely Planet, and thousands of others. Three of Till's images have been used on U.S. postage stamps An exhibit of his images of UNESCO World Heritage Sites has been traveling the world for almost four years, with stops in Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Geneva and Oslo, among others. Though Till has been know as a master of the large format (4x5) camera and film for over 30 years, he has switched to 35mm digital equipment. Till has one of the largest photo libraries in existence of the Four Corners region. Profiles about Till have appeared in Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Photographer Magazine, Camera & Darkroom Magazine, and many other publications. Outdoor Photographer Magazine called him one of the Lords of Landscape Photography. Also numerous conservation and environmental groups have used Till's photos to galvanize support and illustrate their publications. Till was awarded Arizona Highways Photographer of the Year in 1996, the NANPA/Guilfoyle award for landscape photography in 1994, and was named one of the ten best landscape photographers by Nature's Best Magazine. Till received special awards from The Nature Conservancy in 1998, and 2011. In 2006, Till was awarded the prestigious NANPA Fellow Award for 20 years of excellence in nature photography one of only a few landscape photographers to receive the honor, and the only Utahan. Till was also featured in the book "World's Best Photographers: Landscape , and he is also the sole photographer for over 30 books. A resident of Moab, Utah for almost 40 years, Till has two grown children, Mikenna Clokey and Bryce Till. When not photographing, Till is a fan of popular music stretching from the Beach Boys to the Foo Fighters, and movies of all kinds. In 2006, Till was inducted into the Iowa Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He is a huge devotee of the television show Lost. A voracious reader, Till loves books about music, astronomy, cosmology, and quantum physics.