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Gary Clark &
Kathy Adams Clark

nature writing, photography, teaching, natural history tours

06/12/09

 

 

Welcome to Our World!

Gary Clark has been writing and studying nature most of his adult life.  In 1999 he began writing the weekly nature column for the Houston Chronicle.    That article now also appears in the San Antonio Express News. 

Kathy Adams Clark has been a professional nature photographer since 1995.  Her photos illustrate Gary's words each week in the nature column.

Together they form a team that has received high acclaim.  Learn more about them on this site.

 

Photo Credit:  Janice Braud        

Photo/Natural History Tours -- Send me a brochure

Ecuador -- Birds of Paradise
Sept 3-14, 2009
In Partnership with Houston Audubon Society

Travel with Kathy Adams Clark and our talented Ecuadorian naturalist to eco-lodges in Ecuador with stunning photographic opportunities. Day trips will give us opportunities to photograph volcanoes, mountains, waterfalls, lush gardens, colonial architecture, as well as many kinds of hummingbirds, colorful tanagers, brilliant honeycreepers, and a wide variety of other tropical birds.

This trip is for photographers of all skill levels using digital SLR cameras. Traveling companions interested in birds and tropical wildlife would also find this trip a great value.

Sept 3-14, 2009.  $3,495. Call Strabo Tours at 607.756.8676 or email info@strabotours.com to reserve your place.  Send me a brochure

View photos from the 2008 trip
View photos from the 2007 trip

 

Costa Rican Highlands -- Hummingbirds  November 2009
      

Travel with Kathy Adams Clark to photograph hummingbirds, toucans, parrots, tanagers and other colorful birds.     Nov 2-10 2009  Cost $2995 which includes all meals, ground transportation, lodging, and bi-lingual natural history guide.  Optional Extension Nov 10-12, 2009 Cost $795 offers a chance to explore a mountain valley lodge with hundreds of  hummingbirds. 

Call Strabo Tours at 607.756.8676 or email info@strabotours.com to reserve your place.  Limited to 12 travelers.  Send me a brochure

Photos from Nov 07 trip       

  • Ecuador Amazon Photo Tour with Gary Clark & Kathy Adams Clark
  •  March 13-22, 2010

    Trip begins in Quito to a day to photography hummingbirds in the lowlands. Then fly to Coca and take a motorized canoe to our lovely lodge on the Napo River. We spend five days exploring the upper Amazon with our naturalist guide. Two parrot licks, canopy tower, daily canoe rides on the river. Lots of birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. Once back in Quito, we have a day trip to see the Andean condor.  $3295 plus airfare with all meals, lodges, & transportation covered. Request a brochure
     
  • Call 607-756-8676 or visit www.strabotours.com for more details.
  • Costa Rica -- Southern Adventure
     May 15-26, 2009
     in partnership with Houston Audubon

    Led by Kathy Adams Clark &  Willy Alfaro Costa Rican Naturalist

    Travel with Kathy Adams Clark and our talented Costa Rican naturalist for stunning photographic opportunities. The southern half of Costa Rica offers rugged coastline, tropical jungles, and a biological richness different from the central highlands.

    Our journey in San Jose and then we fly to Osa for four nights at a hotel set in the middle of a lush garden.  Toucans, parrots, monkeys, and other Costa Rican specialties await us.  Then we journey to Wilson Botanical Garden for two nights at a research station situated a short distance  from the Panama border.  Our last nights are spent in a high mountain lodge where we once again get to experience hummingbirds, tanagers, honeycreepers, and flowerpiercers at feeders so close you can almost reach out and touch the birds. 

    This trip is for nature photographers of all skill levels using film or digital cameras. Traveling companions interested in birds and tropical wildlife welcome.

    May 15-26, 2009 Land cost $4,495. Single room and small group supplement extra. Call Strabo Tours at 607.756.8676 or email info@strabotours.com to reserve your place. Send me a brochure

                                                  Photos from May 2008 trip
     

     

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    Enjoying Big Bend National Park: A Friendly Guide to Adventures for Everyone  Text by Gary Clark and Photos by Kathy Adams Clark

    In bookstores late March 2009.  Contact us to make arrangements to have a book signing to benefit your organization.
     

    Backroads of the Texas Hill Country
    Text by Gary Clark and
    Photos by Kathy Adams Clark

    Released Nov 2008.  Contact us if you'd like a book signing for your organization.

     

     

    Texas Wildlife Portfolio
    Seven photographers from KAC Productions, Kathy Adams Clark, Larry Ditto, Greg Lasley, John & Gloria Tveten, Bill Draker, Glenn Hayes, and Rolf Nussbaumer, along with Dave Welling team-up to present this lovely coffee table book. Gary Clark wrote the introduction and all the text in the book. Available at Barnes & Noble, Border, Walden and independent booksellers.  Order a copy on-line through Amazon.com.

     

    Texas Gulf Coast Impressions
    Four photographers from KAC Productions, Kathy Adams Clark, Larry Ditto, Greg Lasley, and Glenn Hayes will have their work featured is this lovely book. Gary Clark wrote the introduction and all the text in the book. Released by Farcountry Press in February 2007.  Available all booksellers listed above or through Amazon.com

     

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    This site was last updated 06/12/09       This site is the property of Gary and Kathy Adams Clark. Contact them at texasbirder@comcast.net