The Student Activities Board at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, will present “Living Wild with Tom Ulrich” at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12 and Tuesday, Feb. 13, in the Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center.
Wildlife photographer Tom Ulrich is returning to SAU to present highlights of his 2006 world travels to places such as Costa Rica, the Falkland Islands, and the Pantanal of Brazil.
Ulrich, a freelance photographer since 1975, is highly acclaimed around the world for his nature photography skills. Many of his more than 50,000 transparencies have been used by numerous magazines and other publications, including National Wildlife, Audubon, Outdoor Oklahoma, Sierra, American Hunter, Ranger Rick, Alaska, National Geographic, Montana Outdoors, Life, and many others. Tom is also responsible for publishing six nature books, “Mammals of the Canadian Rockies,” “Birds of the Canadian Rockies,” “Mammals of the Northern Rockies,” “Birds of the Northern Rockies,” “Once Upon a Frame,” and his 2002 release, “Photo Pantanal.”
Tom Ulrich has received many prestigious awards including the Mammal Behavior category in the 1987 International Wildlife Photographer of the Year, winner of the 1979 and 1981 National Wildlife Photo Contest (finalist in 1978 and 1980), Grand Prize Winner of the 1996 National Wildbird Photo Contest, and the 1987, 1988, 1991, and 1994 Outdoor Writers Scavenger Hunt Photo Contest.
Ulrich has been leading tours for many years to remote parts of the world, such as, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, East Africa as well as the greatest aviary spectacle known to man—Pantanal, Brazil. Additionally, Ulrich is busy conducting three to five day photography seminars and workshops around the country. He also lectures at many universities around the United States.
The program is co-sponsored by “Our Wildlife Friends.” It is free and open to the public.
For more information call 870-235-5053.
