Dewitt Jones is one of America’s top professional photographers. Twenty years with National Geographic photographing stories around the globe has earned him the reputation as a world-class photojournalist. As a motion picture director, two of Dewitt’s films were nominated for Academy Awards before he was thirty. His work is well known to the corporate world as well, in advertising campaigns for clients like Dewar’s Scotch, Canon and United Airlines. Dewitt has published nine books including California!, John Muir’s High Sierra and The Nature of Leadership.For the last twenty four years his column, Basic Jones, had appeared in Outdoor Photographer Magazine. Dewitt is also recognized as a world class keynote speaker, talking to audiences around the world on creativity and vision. His inspirational messages are further expanded in his best selling training films. Dewitt graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in drama and holds a Master’s Degree in filmmaking from UCLA. He makes his home on the island of Molokai in Hawaii.