Fine art landscape and nature photographer Steve Krieg is a native of northern Pennsylvania's rural Allegheny Plateau, where he grew up hunting, fishing, trapping, and dirt biking in the steep forested hills there. Early on he developed a love of photography, packing along a 35mm camera while exploring the surrounding woods and streams.
With a forestry degree from Penn State University in 1976, he undertook a 14 year forestry career in the Western U.S., living in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Montana. He has worked for the U.S. Forest Service, Colorado State Forest Service, the Makah Indian Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. In Oregon he trained in martial arts, achieving a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon-do, teaching it for two years.
He left his forestry career in 1990 for other pursuits, including photography and a career in multimedia management. A season working as the mate on a charter fishing boat out of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts in 1991 steeped him in the wonders of the sea.
He has since returned to the West, and is currently living in the heart of Canyon Country, on the Kaibab Plateau region of northern Arizona.
Steve has shot with both 35mm and 4x5-inch film cameras, but now shoots exclusively digital. A longtime darkroom nut, these days he prefers the "lightroom", working on his photographs in the daylight of his home studio in the country, instead of in the dark. His main interests are in making archival fine art landscape prints on the most current giclee (high end inkjet) printers, and continually developing his multimedia and writing skills.
Photographer's Biography - Stephen J. Krieg
Fine art landscape and nature photographer Steve Krieg is a native of northern Pennsylvania's rural Allegheny Plateau, where he grew up hunting, fishing, trapping, and dirt biking in the steep forested 
hills there. Early on he developed a love of photography, carrying a 35mm camera during his explorations of the surrounding woods and streams.
With a forestry degree from Penn State University in 1976, he undertook a 14 year forestry career in the Western U.S., living in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Montana. He has worked for the U.S. Forest Service, Colorado State Forest Service, the Makah Indian Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. In Oregon he trained in martial arts, achieving a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon-do, teaching for two years.
He left his forestry career in 1990 for other pursuits, including photography and a career in multimedia management. A season working as the mate on a charter fishing boat out of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts initiated him to the wonders of the sea.
He has since returned to the West, and is currently living in the heart of Canyon Country, near Flagstaff on the Kaibab Plateau region of northern Arizona.
Steve has shot with both 35mm and 4x5-inch film cameras, but now shoots exclusively digital. A longtime darkroom nut, these days he is most interested in the "digital darkroom", working on his photographs in the daylight of his home studio in the country, instead of in the dark. His main interests are in making archival fine art landscape prints on the most current giclee (high end inkjet) printers, and continually developing his multimedia and writing skills, especially as they might be applied in the communications and environmental education fields.
