Douglas Steakley

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

Steakley has a BA from Bowling Green State University and studied jewelry design and silver-smithing at Indiana University, where he received a master of fine arts degree. In 1974, he traveled to Denmark to learn holloware techniques. His work is featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. In 1979, he wrote "Holloware Techniques," a book published by Watson-Guptill Publications. Steakley was the president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths.

His 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. Later that year, Steakley received the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography from the Sierra Club. Steakley's "A Photographer's Guide to the California Coast" was published in 2005 by Countryman Press. He has also published "A Photography Guide to Big Sur." His photography has been in magazines including "Outside," "Architectural Digest," "Backpacker," "Art and Antiques," "National Geographic," and "Town and Country."

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, and the Tuolumne River Trust, and the Monterey Peninsula Regional Parks District.