Naturescape Gallery at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is proud to present photographer, explorer, author, and Chatham conservationist John King September 1 through October 31^st 2016.

John King has been fascinated with the natural movements of wildlife, of all species as they make their yearly and sometimes bi-yearly migrations going about their business of life around the planet. Cape Cod is a unique laboratory to observe birds, marine mammals, fish and even insects in pristine natural surroundings and why he has chosen to live here.

Ever since the ground breaking BBC documentary Planet Earth debuted in 2007 featuring the astounding white shark breaching imagery shot in South Africa, King has been obsessed with seeing this absolutely perfect apex predator in the wild. This obsession has taken him around the world to South Africa, Mexico, and South Australia to observe study and record the behavior of sharks, especially white sharks, over the past seven years. Imagine his absolute joy to wake up one day in 2009 and learn that these predators actually occur here on Cape Cod! Life has not been the same since that moment.

John is an entrepreneur with a diverse resume, who has strong ties to Cape Cod that span many generations. He has been pursuing a lifelong passion to experience and record the earth’s wild places and wild things through his photography. Locally he is the skipper of the R/v Aleutian Dream which is facilitating the white shark population study currently being conducted by the Massachusetts Shark Research Program with support from the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy in outer Cape waters. He is also a co-founder together with his wife Pam, of The Common Flat Project, a conservation organization dedicated to creating awareness of the importance of earth’s biodiversity especially on Cape Cod. Their first book entitled: Wild Cape Cod, Free by Nature was published by Schiffer Publishing in 2012.

 Free with Museum Admission / September hours: Daily 11am – 3pm / October hours:  Wed. – Sun. 11am – 3pm