About the Photographer

Grant Ordelheide is a Montana-based outdoor and adventure photographer. Growing up in the Colorado Rockies, in a family that explored and played in the outdoors at every opportunity, instilled in him a profound reverence for the landscape. Grant’s love of nature and wild places preceded his love of photography, which emerged as a natural extension and by-product of his adventures in the mountains as an avid backpacker, climber, and snowboarder. Following his passion, Grant earned a Bachelor’s degree in photography with an emphasis in business from Pacific Union College in California’s Napa Valley. In 2016, Grant was a recipient of the Art Wolfe Next Generation Photographer Grant organized by Luminous Landscape. His work has won numerous awards, including one of the top honors in the U.S. Landscape Photographer of the Year contest. His photos have been published in National Geographic Traveler, Backpacker, Outside, Climbing, The New York Times, The Yosemite Journal, and many other print and online publications. Grant’s fine art prints hang in gallery, corporate, and private collections across the country. For several years, Grant has shared his eye, expertise, and contagious passion for photographing the outdoors, teaching photography workshops through Galen Rowell’s Mountain Light Gallery in California, Backcountry Journeys, and Visionary Wild, where he had the opportunity to work alongside masters such as Jack Dykinga, Jerry Dodrill, and David Muench among others. Grant currently resides in Columbia Falls, Montana with his wife Alexis.

His work can be followed on Instagram and Facebook.