About Sarah Marino and Ron Coscorrosa

This website features nature photography by Sarah Marino and Ron Coscorrosa, along with high-quality education ebooks and video tutorials and helpful free resources for nature photographers.

Our photo portfolios feature a diverse range of subjects including grand landscapes, intimate landscapes, abstract renditions of nature, and creative portraits of plants, with a focus on the American West. Our approach centers around seeing opportunities in any landscape, finding joy in photographing nature’s small scenes, and a style of photography focused on exploration and connecting with nature. In addition to sharing photos, our goals are to provide helpful information that inspires others to become better, more creative, and happier photographers while promoting stewardship and the conservation of wild places. While we lightly use tools like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, all of the photos you see on this website of of real scenes that we experienced—no AI fakery or composites.

We are based in rural southwestern Colorado but travel extensively, often in our Airstream trailer (a 25FB Flying Cloud). You can read our posts about RV travel and working from the road here.

About Sarah Marino

Before transitioning to a full-time career focused on nature photography, I worked for many years in Colorado’s vibrant nonprofit sector, most recently through a successful consulting practice focused on leadership and strategy for nonprofit organizations and foundations. My interest in nature photography started while pursuing a master’s degree in public administration and working full-time in a high-pressure leadership position—an intensely stressful combination. Being in nature felt like my only respite—a place where the meditative practice of photography eased away the stress and anxiety that dominated the rest of my life. Over time, I slowly traded my leadership ambitions for a more relaxed and fulfilling life centered on being a nature photographer and teacher.

Now, I am an accomplished nature photographer, photography educator, writer, and speaker. I am also a co-founder of the Nature First Photography Alliance, and am increasingly prioritizing the conservation and stewardship of wild places in my photography and teaching. I am an aspiring naturalist, following a self-designed course of study to learn all that I can about the ecology and natural history of the places I visit to bring depth and context to my photography. You can learn more about me by downloading my photography resume here.

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About Ron Coscorrosa

I have been pursuing nature photography for more than a decade. While living and working in the Pacific Northwest, my interest in nature started as I began hiking in the area’s lush rainforests and mountains. I initially took an interest in photographing the region’s many species of birds and soon expanded to wildlife photography. Eventually, my interests evolved to focus on photographing grand landscapes along with nature’s small scenes. I work full-time as a principal software engineer for a start-up technology company but spend nearly all of my free time pursuing nature photography and travel.

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About Our Camera Gear

If you are curious about the camera gear we use, you can find a detailed and annotated list here. A quick summary: we each use a Canon R5 plus RF lenses (14-35mm, 24-105mm, 100-500mm, 100mm macro, and this weird but fun 800mm). You can also see these items in our Amazon Storefront.

Get in Touch

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.  Although it may take some time to get back to you because we travel quite a bit, we try to respond to every legitimate email we receive. 

 
 

We are co-founders and members of the Nature First Alliance for Responsible Nature Photography and follow the organization’s 7 Principles for minimizing the impact of our photography:

  1. Prioritize the well-being of nature over photography.

  2. Educate yourself about the places you photograph.

  3. Reflect on the possible impact of your actions.

  4. Use discretion if sharing locations.

  5. Know and follow rules and regulations.

  6. Always follow Leave No Trace principles and strive to leave places better than you found them.

  7. Actively promote and educate others about these principles.

From Top Left: deep in the Death Valley backcountry, Joshua Tree National Park, Death Valley sand dunes, backpacking in Zion National Park, two more Death Valley canyons, Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, Colorado’s San Juan Mountains during a great wildflower year, a very rainy day at Huntington Gardens in Los Angeles, showshoeing in Yellowstone National Park, Acadia National Park, and the Zion backcountry in autumn.