Donna Bourdon is a former healthcare executive who left corporate life to pursue her lifelong ambition to share the beauty of wildlife through her lens. She combines her love of travel, wildlife and photography to create an artistic expression of the simple beauty all around us. Her approach with all projects is to capture the spirit and drama of the wild through the photographic medium, expressing not only the beauty, but also the hardships and challenges that are being faced by wildlife each day in their ever-changing world. Donna has received critical acclaim for many of her works. Most recently she was awarded 2nd Place Mammal Category 2024 National Wildlife Federation for an image of an epic Maasai River wildebeest crossing. She also recently received honors from Bird Photographer of the Year 2022 for a pair of red-crowned cranes in flight. She received a Highly Honored award from Nature’s Best Windland Rice International Photography in 2017 for her image of an osprey in flight. The image was taken just 30 miles from her home in Tennessee, demonstrating that dramatic images can be created right in your backyard. In 2018 her image of a roseate spoonbill flying into the rookery and displaying the “orchestra wing position” was selected by BigPicture Natural World Photography to go on exhibit in San Francisco at the California Academy of Sciences. The exhibit then traveled to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, TN for a 2019 exhibition. She received a second Highly Honored award from Nature’s Best in 2019 for an image of a silvery grebe mother feeding its chick, taken in the Falkland Islands. Other awards include Awards of Merit from the Photographic Society of America, Kowa Photography Awards 2019, Top 40 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019, the Photographic Society of Chattanooga and Honorable Mention 2020 from the Wildlife Federation of America, Award of merit Bird Photographer of the year 2022. Publications include the cover of Sierra Magazine/Winter 2023. Nature’s Best Magazine 2017 and 2019, Birds and Blooms August/Sept 2020, Tennessee Wildlife Federation