From the Davis Enterprise | June 26, 2015
Clyde Elmore's nature photos to show at Buehler Alumni Center
Photojournalist Clyde Elmore will host a photographic exhibit from Monday, July 6, through Aug. 28 at the Buehler Alumni Center, off Mrak Hall Drive on the UC Davis campus. This will be the seventh annual exhibit of wildlife and landscape images. He will show animals and landscapes from Botswana, Kenya and Tanzania, as well as North America, including Alaska.
The theme of the exhibit is “In the Wild,” although five of the 24 images are of managed animals such as the critically endangered Amur Leopard from northeastern China and southeastern Siberia (only 300 remaining) and gray wolfs.
A reception will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, July 10, in the center's library.
As a young boy growing up on a farm outside Alva, Okla., Elmore spent a lot of time working with cattle, sheep and pigs, never thinking about art and photography. After completing bachelor's and master's degrees in agronomy at Oklahoma State University, he left Oklahoma to complete a doctorate degree as an agricultural botanist at UC Davis.
His specialty at UCD was working with weed management in horticultural crops throughout California. He conducted experiments on plant interactions and plant management and always took photographs (slides) of research to use in presentations and teaching. Many of his images were used in UC publications, text books, and various commercial publications such as Sunset books and magazines and Ortho Gardening books.
Before his retirement from UC, Elmore rekindled his interest in wild animals. He began with a safari in Tanzania, and was fascinated with the animals and scenery—it became his new passion. He returned to Africa (Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe) multiple times.
Elmore has photographed in Brazil and Argentina in South America and India. In North America he spends much of his photographic time in the northern states and parks of the United States, Canada and, of course, Alaska.
As Elmore looks about his office, he sees images of bison from Yellowstone National Park, African leopard from Tanzania, American badger from Colorado, zebra from Kenya and silver fox from Montana. He has developed wildlife and landscape images as mounted and framed prints.
Elmore has had individual and joint shows at several galleries, fairs or at businesses. Prints have been sold through shows and exhibits. He also has a complete line of animal and landscape greeting cards.
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