Rick Lieder

Painter and photographer Rick Lieder's art has appeared on award-winning novels ranging from mysteries and science fiction, to books based on the X-Files TV series and Newbery Award-winning books for children. His filmmaking was featured in the PBS NOVA documentary "CREATURES OF LIGHT", produced by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TELEVISION, in spring 2016 His nature photography centers on ordinary backyard wildlife, capturing the unique qualities of light interacting with the natural world, including luminous photographs of honey bees and small birds in flight, glowing fireflies mating and hovering over twilight fields, mosquitoes with a belly full of blood, and new-born praying mantis nymphs emerging from their egg cases. Rick's nature picture books with award-winning novelist and poet Helen Frost are published by Candlewick Press, including: • STEP GENTLY OUT in 2012, now in its 9th printing, with a paperback edition. • SWEEP UP THE SUN, featuring birds in flight, published 2015. • AMONG A THOUSAND FIREFLIES a book on fireflies in 2016. • WAKE UP!, a book on new life published in 2017. • HELLO, I'M HERE!, a Sandhill crane family portrait in Spring 2019. • 2022: WAIT – AND SEE, featuring praying mantids. • 2024: THE MIGHTY POLLINATORS. Clients include National Geographic Television, PBS NOVA, Natural History Magazine, Orion Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Kids: Discover, Tamron, DaimlerChrysler, HarperCollins, Random House, Penguin Publishing, Simon & Shuster and Farrar, Straus & Giroux.