Douglas Steakley

Douglas Steakley (born March 21, 1944, in Ashtabula, Ohio) is a metalsmith and photographer who won the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography in 2003.

Career Steakley has a BA from Bowling Green State University and studied jewelry design and silversmithing at Indiana University Bloomington, He was the president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, from 1989 to 1991.

Steakley's book Pacific Light: Images of the Monterey Peninsula was published in 2000, and Big Sur and Beyond: The Legacy of the Big Sur Land Trust was published in 2001. In 2003, he became a full-time photographer. His A Photographer's Guide to the California Coast was published in 2005 by Countryman Press. He has also published Photographing Big Sur.

Steakley has worked with conservation groups including the Big Sur Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy, the Land Trust Alliance, The Trust for Public Land, the Wilderness Coalition, the Tuolumne River Trust, and the Monterey Peninsula Regional Parks District.