‘It was so rewarding to share what I was seeing with others,” Mark Lindberg said about his move into professional photography. “It really excited me to be able to do that. But boy, it’s a steep learning curve.”

Lindberg, a retired UAF quantitative population ecologist and professor of wildlife ecology, took up photography in 2018 when his photographer brother-in-law gave him a hand-me-down camera. He started taking pictures to share with friends, and “it kind of grew after that. By the time I retired I was pretty certain I wanted to pursue it more vigorously.”

Lindberg’s leaps into becoming a photographer and, more recently, a columnist for the News-Miner and advocate for preserving public lands, are just the latest moves in a life that’s taken several initially unplanned turns.

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