{"id":12624,"date":"2016-08-02T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2016-08-02T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T22:06:50","slug":"paul-marcellini-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/paul-marcellini-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"PAUL MARCELLINI – PHOTOGRAPHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/a>Paul Marcellini\u2019s stunning photographs of South Florida\u2019s National Park lands will be featured in SOMI Magazine\u2019s continuing series celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the National Park System over the next several issues.\n

Paul Marcellini is a fifth-generation Floridian and second-generation Miamian. He grew up in the Redlands, just a stone\u2019s throw from Everglades National Park. The Everglades was the place where he first discovered his artistic abilities, honing his skills as he moved from painting to photography.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always need an artistic outlet, and I always focus on nature,\u201d said Marcellini.<\/p>\n

The artist graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he received an environmental science degree while maintaining a minor in art (for which he had a scholarship). When he returned to Miami in 2007, he began to spend a lot of time in the Everglades\u2014often two or three evenings per week exploring and getting to understand the place. He took a job with Miami-Dade County for a couple of years working part-time as a naturalist with the Parks and Recreation department.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Marcellini won the Grand Prize in the Outdoor Photographer Magical Adventure contest to go on a 10-day photo safari of Kenya. The prize was a $17,000 travel package that proved to be a life-changing experience for the artist. His winning photograph was taken in the Everglades capturing a certain quality of light as he was running away from an approaching storm.<\/p>\n

Marcellini has worked diligently at his craft since graduating college, and in 2011 finally took the plunge to move away from a steady paycheck and to earn his living as a professional artist. He sells his work online and at art shows. His art has been shown at many local galleries and museums, including the Biscayne National Park visitor\u2019s center and a permanent installment at Miami-Dade International Airport. He is currently fulfilling an order for 25 pieces of his artwork for a large dental office in Tampa.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am building my inventory of photographs, and I keep covering Florida, but I also have a repertoire that includes Iceland and Kenya,\u201d said the artist.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Marcellini was informed that his photograph of the Everglades, \u201cPath of Light,\u201d was chosen as one of 16 images to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National Park System as a \u201cForever\u201d stamp.<\/p>\n

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The Everglades National Park comprises 1.5 million acres from Miami to Naples and south to the Florida Keys. The park was established in 1947 to conserve the landscape and to prevent continued despoliation of the land, flora and fauna. Once flowing from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee and southward to Biscayne Bay, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida Bay, the slow-moving sheet of water covered about 11,000 square miles.<\/p>\n

It is this land that Marcellini studies and successfully portrays in his photographs. He is concerned to educate the public about the natural environment and to teach them that Florida is more than just beaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish people would know more about where we are. Let\u2019s not screw it up. I want to show what\u2019s still good, instead of what\u2019s wrong,\u201d said Marcellini.<\/p>\n

For more information about Paul Marcellini, please visit his website at .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Marcellini is a fifth-generation Floridian and second-generation Miamian. He grew up in the Redlands, just a stone\u2019s throw from Everglades National Park. The Everglades was the place where he first discovered his artistic abilities, honing his skills as he moved from painting to photography. \u201cI always need an artistic outlet, and I always focus<\/p>\n

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