Stewart M. Green

I've been a freelance photographer and writer since 1977, based in Colorado Springs and traveling all over the great American West as well as the rest of the United States and the world in search of memorable images and experiences to write about and to lead people toward. Since the mid-1980s I've worked as a freelance photographer and writer for FalconGuides/Globe Pequot Press, writing over 45 books and photographing a few more, as well as publishing select climbing and hiking guides to Colorado with Every Adventure Publishing. Some of my books include the best-selling Rock Climbing Colorado, Rock Climbing Europe, Rock Climbing Utah, Rock Climbing Arizona, Rock Climbing New England, Climbing Pikes Peak, Best Hikes Colorado Springs, Best Hikes Albuquerque, Best Easy Day Hikes Moab, Best Easy Day Hikes Phoenix, Best Easy Day Hikes Colorado Springs, Best Easy Day Hikes Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks, Scenic Driving Colorado, Scenic Driving New England, Scenic Routes & Byways California's Pacific Coast, Scenic Driving California, Scenic Driving Arizona, KNACK Rock Climbing, Best Climbs Moab, Best Climbs Denver and Boulder, Rocky Mountain National Park Pocket Guide, and Back Country Byways. My work has also been published in many other national and international publications, books, magazines, catalogs, websites, and advertisements. Along the way I fathered a couple of amazing kids--Ian and Aubrey Green, climbed and adventured in a lot of places around the world that I never could have imagined, and had loads of fun. I've kept my hands busy and my heart full. I'm grateful for that. I write and photograph because of what is in front of me, to honor everything beyond in the world which is great, interesting, mysterious, and always changing. To be a writer and photographer is to see newly every day, as if for the first time, the essence that illuminates and lives within the earth. Every subject redefines me and allows me to discover harmony, reconcile disparities and inequities, and to find shape, symmetry, and truth in the chaos of life. As a writer and photographer I seek to record my life and times, my vision of the world and its natural beauty, its other creatures, and my fellow human beings, and to find affirmation in life through belonging, wholeness, and living. I always think of the reader and the viewer over my shoulder, the person who sees my vision and reinterprets it in his own experience.