Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

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A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

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A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

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A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

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A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

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A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

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A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) with its trainer at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: Ranch hands relax and joke after a day of working cattle on the 130,000-acre Callaghan ranch near Encinal, Texas.

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Ranch hands relax and joke after a day of working cattle on the 130,000-acre Callaghan ranch near Encinal, Texas.

Photo: An aloe plant in an aloe field, where many of the workers are resident aliens, Mexican citizens with green cards allowing them to work in the United States.

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An aloe plant in an aloe field, where many of the workers are resident aliens, Mexican citizens with green cards allowing them to work in the United States. The aloe leaves will be processed into ointments, cosmetics, and beverages after harvest.

Photo: An elderly man gathers oranges in California's citrus growing belt.

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An elderly man gathers oranges in California’s citrus growing belt.

Photo: Biologists from Cornell eat their lunch standing while searching for the ivory billed woodpecker in the White River National Wildlife Refuge in St. Charles, Arkansas.

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Biologists from Cornell eat their lunch standing while searching for the ivory billed woodpecker in the White River National Wildlife Refuge in St. Charles, Arkansas.

Photo: A forest ranger looks at heavy metal residue in Bucktail creek at Salmon National Forest in Idaho.

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A forest ranger looks at heavy metal residue in Bucktail creek at Salmon National Forest in Idaho. The slag comes from nearby Blackbird mine, closed in the 1960’s.

Photo: Portrait of a cattleman through a windshield standing with his horse on Hot Spings ranch north of Salmon, Idaho.

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Portrait of a cattleman through a windshield standing with his horse on Hot Spings ranch north of Salmon, Idaho.

Photo: A lamb leaps up after being relieved of his tail for better sanitation purposes by Bureau of Land Management workers on federal grazing lands in southern Wyoming.

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A lamb leaps up after being relieved of his tail for better sanitation purposes by Bureau of Land Management workers on federal grazing lands in southern Wyoming.

Photo: A rancher drives cattle fattened on public land to his employer's ranch in Lemhi County, Idaho.

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A rancher drives cattle fattened on public land to his employer’s ranch in Lemhi County, Idaho.

Photo: Miners masked against sun and cold carve up the land in search of borax in Chile's Atacama desert.

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Miners masked against sun and cold carve up the land in search of borax in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: A man, who owns a animal capture business called "Pesky Critter", attempts to rope a stray pig after hurricane Andrew.

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A man, who owns a animal capture business called “Pesky Critter”, attempts to rope a stray pig after hurricane Andrew.

Photo: Vietnamese teenagers search for oysters with hands and feet to earn pocket money.

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Vietnamese teenagers search for oysters with hands and feet to earn pocket money.

Photo: A group of fisherman cleaning lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho.

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A group of fisherman cleaning lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho.

Photo: A group of fisherman cleaning lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho.

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A group of fisherman cleaning lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho.

A fisheries technician for Avista, checks a monitoring station for radio-tagged bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) at the base of Noxon Rapids Dam, Montana. (US: Federally threatened; IUCN: Vulnerable)

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A fisheries technician for Avista, checks a monitoring station for radio-tagged bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) at the base of Noxon Rapids Dam, Montana. (US: Federally threatened; IUCN: Vulnerable)

Photo: Joel Sartore and his son, Cole, stop to take a photograph together in the Walton area of Glacier National Park, Montana.

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Joel Sartore and his son, Cole, stop to take a photograph together in the Walton area of Glacier National Park, Montana.

Photo: Mexican laborers build a border wall near Alamo, Texas.

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Mexican laborers build a border wall near Alamo, Texas.

Photo: Mexican laborers constructing the border wall that separate the United States from Mexico near Alamo, Texas.

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Mexican laborers constructing the border wall that separate the United States from Mexico near Alamo, Texas.

Photo: Mexican laborers constructing the border wall that separate the United States from Mexico near Alamo, Texas.

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Mexican laborers constructing the border wall that separate the United States from Mexico near Alamo, Texas.

Photo: Workers from Southern Native Plants out of Milton, Florida are planting sea oats (Uniola paniculata) in sand dunes on Dauphin Island, Alabama.

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Workers from Southern Native Plants out of Milton, Florida are planting sea oats (Uniola paniculata) in sand dunes on Dauphin Island, Alabama.

Photo: A clean up crew hired by BP tries to sop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, along the shoreline on Queen Bess island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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A clean up crew hired by BP tries to sop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, along the shoreline on Queen Bess island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

Photo: Joel Sartore, on assignment for National Geographic magazine, while photographing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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Joel Sartore, on assignment for National Geographic magazine, while photographing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

Photo: A clean up crew hired by BP tries to sop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, along the shoreline on Queen Bess island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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A clean up crew hired by BP tries to sop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, along the shoreline on Queen Bess island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

Photo: A BP clean up crew tries to sop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill at Queen Bess Island, Louisiana.

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A BP clean up crew tries to sop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill at Queen Bess Island, Louisiana.

Photo: A cattle guard being installed at a pasture near Valparaiso, Nebraska.

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A cattle guard being installed at a pasture near Valparaiso, Nebraska.

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