Brad Edwards Markel is an award winning professional photographer and cinematographer who has spent the last twenty five years shooting assignments around the world, flown aboard Air Force One with three different presidents, and covered White House assignments during four presidencies for magazines such as Time, Newsweek, People, Life, and Fortune. His photos have been published on the cover, as well as inside those magazines, and in nearly every major magazine in the world including Wilderness, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, National Wildlife, Smithsonian, Stern,Paris Match, NY Times, Audubon and countless others. He was the Cinematographer on the National Geographic Explorer film, America's Last Red Wolves, which aired September and November, 2003.

Within the wide variety of subjects he photographs, nature has always captured his heart. Brad grew up next to fields and forest, and as a young boy was fascinated by nature and loved to explore those surroundings, observing all the local wildlife. This passion for the natural world remained strong throughout his career and he has invested many years in the wild photographing natural history and wild animal behavior. He is now bringing these select groups of images out to the public.

He hopes his images of wild animals will help lead humans to value and protect the treasure of our animal world and scarce wilderness areas. His gentle, captivating photographs reflect the admiration and respect he has for wildlife and the sense of wonder and excitement that it brings to our civilized lives.