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Stephen Schoof was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1974. He first explored the southern Appalachians in a child carrier on his father's back. His parents finally moved to the mountains outside Asheville when he was five, and early trips with family and friends eventually grew into longer outings throughout the Southeast and beyond. Stephen graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville with an Environmental Science degree in resource management. He has worked with the North Carolina State Park system (on Mt. Mitchell) and North Carolina State University's Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center. Regarding photography, he has had no formal training but has been deeply influenced by the work of Galen Rowell and David Muench. He seeks natural combinations of unusual color and form, and avoids manipulating images far beyond reality. Like most photographers, his main goal is simply to share his most meaningful visual experiences as clearly as possible within the physical limits of film. He lives with his wife, Leslie, and daughter, Alyssa, near Asheville.
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