The seven photographers of the collective known as Photo Cascadia, Erin Babnik, Sean Bagshaw, David Cobb, Adrian Klein, Kevin McNeal, Chip Phillips, and Zack Schnepf, all live in the Pacific Northwest and have dedicated their careers to sharing its natural beauty while encouraging stewardship and conservation efforts. Active members of the photographic community, they regularly teach workshops and lead group photography tours throughout the region and beyond. Collectively they have mounted dozens of exhibitions and have received many industry and juried awards. Their images have been published in Digital Photo Magazine, Digital Photographer, National Geographic, Nature's Best Photography, Northwest Magazine, OnLandscape, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Popular Photography and Imaging, and elsewhere. Erin Babnik is a Canon Explorer of Light.

Noted lepidopterist and writer Robert Michael Pyle is the founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the founding chairman of the IUCN/SSC's Lepidoptera Specialist Group. A Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim fellow, he is a full-time biologist and the author of 20 books, including Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal, Chasing Monarchs, Mariposa Road, and two collections of poetry. His works on butterflies include The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies, Handbook for Butterfly Watchers, and The Butterflies of Cascadia.

Noted lepidopterist and writer Robert Michael Pyle is the founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the founding chairman of the IUCN/SSC's Lepidoptera Specialist Group. A Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim fellow, he is a full-time biologist and the author of 20 books, including Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal, Chasing Monarchs, Mariposa Road, and two collections of poetry. His works on butterflies include The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies, Handbook for Butterfly Watchers, and The Butterflies of Cascadia.