When I began hiking in the wilderness areas of California, I realized that it was very easy to determine where the private land ended and the wilderness areas began.   The private land had been severely modified by the hand of man, where as the wilderness areas contained a beautiful, random tangle of plant and animal species.  It was this striking random beauty of the wilderness that I have tried to capture with my photography.  

It was on my trip to Hokkaido Japan that I encountered an exception to the wilderness boundary phenomena.   In the national parks of Hokkaido Japan, it was very difficult to determine where the national parks ended and the private land began.  The Japanese culture does not have the extreme adversary relationship with nature that western culture contains, so for the most part the private land flows into the wilderness areas by fostering the random beauty of Nature.  It was on this trip to Japan, that I first contemplated the notion of "Wilderness Without Boundaries".

"Wilderness Without Boundaries" encourages the notion that we should spread wilderness consciousness beyond the physical boundaries of the wilderness areas.  Wilderness areas should not just be isolated, seldom visited islands of land.  "Wilderness Without Boundaries" discourages an adversary relationship with Nature, and encourages coexistence with the native species around us.   "Wilderness Without Boundaries" discourages the heavy handed modifications of the earth by man, and encourages the creative thinking required for the conservation of our native planet and our coexistence with it's species.

Cooperative approaches to conservation like "Wilderness Without Boundaries" are being practiced in places like the Yellowstone area of Wyoming, Krueger National Park in Africa, and Antarctica.   Groups like the
Nature Conservancy are developing creative approaches to ranching so that the wolf and grizzly bear can coexist with humans in the areas around Yellowstone National Park.  In addition, conservationists are promoting the notion that the Rocky Mountain wilderness space should be extended from New Mexico in the south to Jasper Canada in the north.   At Krueger National Park in southwest Africa international borders have been eliminated so that the animals can migrate in their natural ranges.  On my long voyage to Antarctica, I had the opportunity to read support material regarding the Antarctic Treaty.  This forward thinking document which was created in the 1950's contains some key concepts which should be used today by modern conservationists.  
Paul Berkman's  book (Science into Policy - Global Lessons from Antarctica) is an eye opening review of the lessons learned from the Antarctic Treaty.

Lastly, I would encourage all of us to locally expand wilderness consciousness beyond the physical boundaries of the wilderness areas.  Encourage the coexistence with native species in your local environment.   Support your local wilderness locations, and spread wilderness consciousness to your friends.  Rational, manicured English gardens are nice, but the wilderness is the source of our human spirit.

Manzanita Enterprises strives to produce the highest quality hand crafted digital images and photographic prints from wilderness areas around the world.  Our love for photography and wilderness hiking has been combined to produce a stunning collection of museum quality prints and digital image files available for license.  Our on-line gallery contains photographic studies from more than one hundred wilderness locations on five continents.  

CLICK HERE for a list of Wilderness Locations.

CLICK HERE to read Hugh J. Lawton's biography.

CLICK HERE to read about the equipment and technical processes that we use.

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions please feel free to contact us.  You can contact us by phone or regular mail

Phone: (415) 841-1490


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Manzanita Enterprises, Inc.
P. O. Box 320666
San Francisco, California 94132-0666

All of the photographs in our online catalog are available as museum quality prints.

MATTING AND FRAMING: Manzanita uses only real glass, off-white mats, and black hardwood frames standard.  

LIMITED EDITIONS: Only 100 of each of these images are printed.  Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.

DELIVERY: The average order will be delivered in 15 calendar days.  We use UPS or Federal Express unless you request otherwise.  Rush delivery is available. (call for rates on rush delivery)

GUARANTEE: Manzanita guarantees everything we sell.  Your satisfaction is important to us.

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All of the photographs in our online catalog are available for Licensing

RESOLUTION: Our high resolution electronic files are availabe in any physical dimensions that you specify.  
The pixel dimensions of our high resolution files can be as high as 7300 pixels by 7300 pixels.  
This means that our square images can contain more than 50 Mega Pixels.
A ten inch by ten inch file could have a resolution of up to 730 ppi(pixels per inch).
A 300 ppi file could be as large as 24 inches by 24 inches.

FILE FORMATS: Our files can be formated in all of the formats supported by Adobe Photoshop CS2 (tiff, jpeg, DNG, etc.).

BIT DEPTH: Our files are available in 8 bit and 16 bit depths.

DELIVERY: Our high resolution images are available on CD-ROM or DVD  
We use UPS or Federal Express unless you request otherwise.  Rush delivery is available. (call for rates on rush delivery)
If you need the images immediately, we can FTP the images to your server

GUARANTEE: Manzanita guarantees everything we sell.  Your satisfaction is important to us.

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