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William Belvin Art Collections

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Artwork by William Belvin

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About William Belvin

William Belvin Bill is a Sedona based fine arts photographer specializing in creating richly detailed images of the American Southwest wilderness. He loves capturing the patterns and symmetries present in sandstone and sharing the results with others. Bill is the creator/author of the well-known website www.thewave.info. This site has had over 150,000 visits from more than 150 countries and is the best source of information on The Wave and the Coyote Buttes / Arizona strip area. The website contains over 1,000 images of The Wave and surrounding region, as well as travel directions, maps, and shooting tips. Thewave.info also contains depth of field tools, and articles on shooting at night and photographing hot air balloons.

Bill has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and has backpacked in the Northwest and Alaska. He has taken several Outward Bound courses and is a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School. Bill is comfortable hiking both on and off-trail and at night. This comfort level allows him to photograph subjects in difficult to reach places and at night. He spends many hours searching for "secret" places to shoot and his greatest joy is in finding a new site and sharing it with others. Of course he also shoots "the icons", ideally from a new perspective or with unusual light.

Bill is largely self-taught in art and photography, but has had valuable training in composition from Joseph Lange, Mollie Isaacs, and Mary Lindhjem, and in Photoshop from Tom Till and Jon Fuller. He has exhibited at the Sedona Arts Center and the Great Neck, Sedona, and Cottonwood Libraries. He has many "first places" in local competitions, and has been published in Shutterbug magazine.

Bill has an M.A. in Physics and a B.S. in Chemistry from The City University of New York. He is a Fellow of The Casualty Actuarial Society and was Chief Actuary at both Swiss Re America and Johnson & Higgins. His background in computer science, mathematics, and statistics has served him well in dealing with the more technical aspects of photography.

Bill is married and has two children. His wife Elaine is also an avid nature photographer. She shares Bill’s love for the unknown and wild.

Artist Statement

My passion is finding the beauty and wildness present throughout nature, and helping others discover it through my articles, maps, and photographs. I love venturing into the wild, both to explore it, and to make art. My love is best expressed in the writings of John Muir:

“Wilderness is a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why it’s good to go outside of the city and the suburbs”.

In my photos I try to capture the spirit of the wild, whether it is a shadow racing across endless desert sands at dusk, a cheetah taking down a gazelle, an untouched ancient pueblo ruin, the solitude of a lone cottonwood, or the unfathomable heights of the stars.