Colleen Miniuk is a dynamic and passionate outdoor photographer, writer, educator, speaker, and publisher based in Chandler, AZ.  In 2007, she left behind her corporate career to follow her love for the outdoors and photography. Since then, her images have graced the pages of publications such as National Geographic, Arizona Highways, AAA Via, On Landscape, National Parks Traveler, and a broad variety of other outlets. 

Colleen has also penned several books, including Photographing Acadia National Park (after serving thrice as Acadia’s Artist-in-Residence); Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers; and The Current Flows: Water in the Arid West. Her first adventure memoir, So Said the River: Life, Loss, and Pie on the Colorado, was published in July 2024. She writes an online photography advice column and video series called “Dear Bubbles.”

As a fervent advocate for creative expression, Colleen is just as enthusiastic about teaching as she is about creating. She has over 16 years of experience leading photography workshops (including all-women sessions called Sheography™), teaching classes, and offering one-on-one mentoring. Her workshops invite curiosity, provoke thought, foster personal connection to the natural world, and empower photographers to embrace their unique voice.

When she’s not photographing, writing, or teaching, she’s camping in her Alaskan Camper, stand-up paddleboarding, rafting, making sand or snow angels, recording dance videos, making songs, painting, sipping bubbly, wandering, wondering, and living her big Life with a capital L.

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