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.

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. In addition, she has received awards from Nature’s Best Windland Rice International Photography, Big Picture, Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, and Photographic Society of America. Her image of a bald eagle perched atop a caribou shed was recently on the cover of Sierra magazine. She has numerous images included in NWF’s holiday card collections. Donna joined the team at Denise Ippolito: A Creative Adventure as a workshop leader in 2021. She leads wildlife, cultural and flower photographic tours in the US as well as internationally.

Instagram: @bourdondonna

Website: donnabourdon.smugmug.com