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I recently launched a new YouTube channel about Rocky Mountain National Park. It is designed to provide vital visitor information and education enabling park visitors to have an even better experience...

On September 1, 2023, Rocky Trail Press released the second edition of its award-winning book Wild Light, by author and photographer Erik Stensland that showcases the beauty and wonder of Rocky Mountain National Park...

Rocky Trail Press (Erik's publishing company) is thrilled to share the news that they have won the award for Travel Book of the Year at the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Awards. The awards, organized by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), honor the best of independent publishing in the United States...

This morning I am pleased to announce that my book Whispers in the Wilderness is now available as an audio book. This book will calm the soul and help you refocus on the things that are truly important...

There's a lot happening that we want to share with you from our biggest spring sale ever, to a new audio book, information about what's happening in Rocky Mountain National Park, a new calendar, new photos, and more...

I recently had an interview with the Rocky Mountain Channel. In this interview they dive into my background and into my personal life. If you want a little peek behind the scene, then be sure and give this some time...

For many years I've been a big fan of my friend James Disney, an incredible painter with a deep knowledge of every nook and cranny of Rocky Mountain National Park and an even deeper love for this place...

For the last couple of months, I've been working hard on a new project and I'm excited to finally let you know about it. This morning I launched a new website designed to assist people wanting to visit Rocky Mountain National Park...

Last week, the annual gathering of the Independent Book Publishers Association, which represents over 4,000 publishers, took place in Orlando. For this year's Benjamin Franklin book awards there were over 1,900 books reviewed...

“We’re going to tear it down at the end of the season.”

So said the owner of 203 Park Lane in February 2007, after offering me the space for the coming summer. The previous summer, I had begun showing my work through other stores in Estes Park...

I've been pretty quiet on here lately as I've been working on a few different projects. They are now nearing completion and being sent to press.

The first of these is The Photographer's Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park...

This pandemic has hit all of us hard in so many different ways that I would never have predicted. One of the impacts we're facing as a business is in regards to shipping our products to customers...

Many of you have visited my gallery space in Grand Lake at Studio 8369. Well, I'm very sad to report that the gallery will be closing at the end of this week (Friday September 24). The gallery has been doing really well, but our dear friends Keith and Laura who run it are moving to Seattle...

Writing The Journey Beyond was a very stretching experience. I so wanted to ensure that this book would address the challenges being faced in our society, but in a way that was meaningful and healing...

Three years ago I launched a book that was very different from any I had written before, a book filled not only with photographs but also with my own musings on reconnecting with nature and our deepest selves...

2020 has been a year that none of us will probably ever forget. The pandemic lead to weeks where nearly all of us stayed at home, where we had to learn new and difficult ways of relating to one another, a stop to most of our travel and changes in nearly every aspect of life...

During the Covid-19 lock-down I took some time to answer questions sent in via Facebook about a wide range of topics. There were so many questions that I broke them down into three separate videos. The first one addresses hiking related questions on topics such as encountering wildlife, my favorite hikes, mileage covered each year, etc...

My gallery staff have been pushing me for a quite a while to put together a little post on what my life is actually like as they get so many questions about it. People are constantly saying that I have the world's best job, though in truth most of those who say that know little of what it actually entails...

This summer to comply with the health regulations of the State of Colorado, Larimer County and Estes Park, we have implemented a number of changes that will help to keep our staff and guests as safe as possible...

I am thrilled to announce that on Friday May 8th, Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park: The Essential Guide was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award for best travel book of 2020. The Benjamin Franklin Awards recognize the very best in independent publishing in the United States and is run by the Independent Book Publishers Association...

For a couple of weeks our books will not be available on Amazon. This is because we are in the process of handing over our book sales to Publishers Group West which will be handling our book sales throughout North America...

I hope that this newsletter finds you and your family all healthy and well in this unusual situation that we find ourselves in. This was probably not the spring that most of us imagined when we first entered 2020...

In the publishing industry, the most prestigious award for a small publisher is a Benjamin Franklin Award. These are given out each year by the Independent Book Publishers Association. This year they had 1,700 entries...

Six hundred and eighteen days ago I embarked on a new project at the request of the Rocky Mountain Conservancy. They wanted a new hiking guide for Rocky Mountain National Park that would address the new realities of the Park with its rapidly growing number of visitors...

My heart sunk as I approached the meadow. This spot which for years had been the most fertile section of wildflowers, usually filled with a mixture of elephant head, scarlet and sulpher Indian paintbrush, pinnate-leaved daisies and arrowleaf senecio, was now just a field of gravel with a few sprouts of green struggling to poke through...

In early December we held a pre-sale of my upcoming book, "Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park: The Essential Guide". The sale lasted just under two weeks and during that time we sold 667 copies! That will give me a real boost in helping to pay for the printing...

Over the years I've focused my photography primarily on creating large prints for homes and businesses. Later I started creating numerous publications with my images such as books, calendars and cards...

In 2013 as I was writing my first coffee table book, Wild Light, I realized I would need to form my own publishing company. At the time I had no idea what direction it would take. I've now published six books, am in the process of preparing three others for publication and have produced a number of calendars and greeting cards as well...

The Images of RMNP gallery is blessed with an incredible team of people, marked by integrity, authenticity, and a passion for the well-being of others. We hope that you will stop by the gallery and get to know each of these remarkable people...

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Beginning on June 1st we are resuming our First Friday Celebrations. On the first Friday of each month through the end of this year we join with the other galleries and studios in town to celebrate the arts...

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Tomorrow, we celebrate 11 years since I opened the gallery in Estes Park. It has gone from just a dream to now having a well-known business, fabulous employees and so many encouraging supporters like you...