Joe Mac Hudspeth, Jr.
When
Joe Mac Hudspeth, Jr. is not at as his "real job" you'll
find him in a swamp photographing wildlife. A self-taught photographer,
he has turned his hobby into a part-time job with his work being published
over 900 times in national, regional and state-wide publications. In
1993 he received national recognition when his image of an immature least
bittern, taken on Ross Barnett Reservoir, was selected from over 2,000
wildlife calendar photographs and awarded the "Grand Prize for Wildlife" by
the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for Natural History. Since then his
work has appeared on 12 Mississippi
Duck Stamps and 13 Mississippi
Sportsman's Licenses. A true outdoorsman, Joe Mac works with and
supports numerous organizations including Ducks Unlimited, The National
Wild Turkey Federation, Mississippi Wildlife Federation, Delta Wildlife,
Wildlife Mississippi and The Nature Conservancy, just to name a few.
His first book, In
The Southern Wild, published by University Press, was released in
the Fall of 2003.
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