February 27, 7:00pm NCAS Membership Meeting at Whatcom Museum Old City Hall (In Person)

Documenting Human’s Impact on the Planet – Daniel Beltrá

Documenting the forces and impacts of climate change can sometimes feel like an impossible task, but for over thirty years, award winning photographer Daniel Beltrá has been traveling the world to shine a light on the dramatic changes afflicted on our fragile ecosystems. In his presentation Beltrá views the climate crisis with hope and optimism for the opportunity it presents to us to make long overdue changes.  He brings you along on his photographic journeys while witnessing global shifts from Greenland and the Arctic Circle, to the world’s great tropical rainforests in the Amazon, Indonesia and the Congo, to Antarctica. His most striking photographs are images dramatically captured from airplanes and helicopters. This perspective gives the viewer a wider context to the beauty and destruction he witnesses, while revealing a delicate sense of scale that emphasizes that the Earth and its resources are finite. His passion for conservation and truth-seeking is evident in the evocatively poignant images that reveal the precarious balance the planet has been pushed to by our carbon-intensive economy.