Jack Dykinga

• Name — Jack Dykinga • Born — 2 January 1943 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois • Known for — Photography • Website — http: www.dykinga.com/

Born in Chicago, Dykinga began his career at the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times before moving to Arizona, where he joined the Arizona Daily Star and taught at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Dykinga left the Arizona Daily Star and photojournalism in 1985. Thanks to the support and inspiration of a friend, he started to work on a book about the Sonoran Desert. The publication of The Sonoran Desert launched his new career as a nature and conservation photographer. Dykinga is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. His work appears in Arizona Highways and National Geographic. He shows at the G2 Gallery. He is on the board of the Sonoran Desert National Park Project. In 2010, Dykinga was photographer in residence at Sedona Photofest.

Dykinga lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife Margaret Maley; they married in 1965. He attended Riverside Brookfield High School.

• Frog Mountain Blues, University of Arizona Press, 1987, • The Sonoran Desert H.N. Abrams, 1992, • The Secret Forest, University of New Mexico Press, 1993, • Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau Abrams, 1996, • The Sierra Pinacate University of Arizona Press, 1998, • Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley, Harry N. Abrams, 1999, • Large format nature photography, Amphoto Books, 2001, • Jack Dykinga's Arizona, Westcliffe Publishers, 2004, • Images: Jack Dykinga's Grand Canyon, Arizona Highways, 2008, • Capture the Magic: Train Your Eye, Improve Your Photographic Composition, Rocky Nook Publishers, 2013, • A Photographer's Life, Rocky Nook Publishers, 2017,

• Illustration — Teddy-bear Cholla at Tecolote Camp, El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve • Illustration — American bison • Illustration — Female Mexican fruit fly • Illustration — Severe soil erosion in a wheat field near Washington State University • Illustration — Hereford twins produced at the ARS Range and Livestock Research Unit at Miles City, Montana