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Award-winning photographer Monte Nagler captures the beauty and
majesty of the Champion Trees—the largest and eldest living plants in the
world—in this series of four select images from his home state of Michigan.

Monte Nagler, Photographer

Monte Nagler, trained as an engineer, embarked on a successful
career in the Detroit auto industry before attending a 1979
workshop by Ansel Adams, the master of black-and-white
landscape photography. With Adams’s encouragement, Mr. Nagler
developed his talent with a 4 x 5 view camera and became a fulltime
photographer in 1982.

The Michigan Botanical Club

“It was during that period of intensive work that I realized that
making photographs is a way to experience beauty instead of just
looking at it,” he recalls. Today Mr. Nagler’s dramatic images are
found in prestigious collections across the United States, including
the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Center
for Creative Photography of Tuscon. More information about Monte
Nagler and his work is available online at www.monte-nagler.com.
The Michigan Botanical Club was formed in 1941 to conserve
Michigan’s native plants and to educate the public to appreciate and
preserve all of the state’s plant life. Among the programs the
organization sponsors is the Michigan Big Tree Hunt. The
photographs on these cards represent just four of Michigan’s
incredibly diverse tree species. Information on the club and the
process for identifying champion trees can be found in The
Michigan Botanist, Vol. 42, #1, pp. 3-46, Jan. 2003 and at
www.michbotclub.org.

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