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Albert J Valentino is more than just an award winning Fine Art Photographer, he is also a bit of Renaissance man. Albert has an MS degree in geology, was the first person to discover the mineral Coesite on the moon, held a career in sales in several scientific fields ranging from X-ray diffraction equipment to Cancer testing, studied several psychological models in depth becoming a certified Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and a certified trainer of the Enneagram Personality Typing System. He is also wrote the first book, Personality Selling, integrating these models with classical selling.
Albert enjoys shooting all types of photography especially nature, wildlife, architecture and cityscapes. One of his specialties is sunrise/sunset and he is particularly prolific when it comes to shooting waterfalls and streams. He is mostly self-taught but is also a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography. But that is not enough, as he is constantly striving to improve by experimenting with new capture and post processing techniques. Albert is member of the Nikonians Masters Society, a forum moderator at Nikonians.org for Landscape, Wildlife and Macro, member of NANPA and NAPP. Awards include…
Nature’s Best International Windland Smith Rice competition (over 20,000 entries), Winner in 2008 displayed at the Smithsonian Institute and Highly Honored (tie for second place) in 2009
BetterPhoto.com two time monthly Winner in 2009 in the Animal Category, 20,000+ monthly entries, for this Alpha Wolf capture and this Bald Eagle Environmental Portrait, as well as a seven-time Finalist in 2009 in the monthly contests.Photographers Forum Annual Competition, Finalist in 2009, 2008, and 2007
NANPA’s top 100 in 2008 for two different landscape images
Nikonians.org monthly challenge winner multiple times over the years
BBC/Natural History Museums’s Wildlife Photographer of the year contest: Semi-Finalist in 2008.
Albert currently shoots with a pair of Nikon D300s, SB-800 speedlights, and Nikkor and Sigma professional lenses including... Nikkor 10.5DX Fisheye
Nikkor 10-24 f/3.5-4.5
Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8
Nikkor 70-200VR f/2.8
Sigma 150 f/2.8 DG macro
Sigma 120-300 f/2.8 DGMuch of his work can be purchased, as Fine Art Archival Prints and his services are available as an event photographer and nature location workshops. In addition to the images in his gallery, over 2,000 of his images are posted on his image hosting site at pbase
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