About Field & Frame
Field & Frame is for photographers who are ready to push their work into new territory. Not toward a newer lens or a longer species list, but past the photograph everyone else is already making: the same bird on the same perfect perch, the same bear at the same falls, served up on a silver platter by somebody else’s ideas and vision.
Our workshops are built on strategic fieldcraft, ethology, and a working knowledge of the natural world. We read the wind before we read the histogram. We learn why the wildlife is where it is, what it is likely to do next, and how the environment in which it lives impacts everything about how it lives. Because those answers make better photographs than any setting on the camera.
The goal isn’t to hand you an image. It’s to change how you think, how you compose, and how you see the wildlife in front of you and the place that shaped it. When a deep understanding of the subject meets the craft of making the picture, new work becomes possible.
That’s where field meets frame.
Photo by Angie Brooks Photography
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Annalise founded Field & Frame to put a lifetime of naturalist training and her experience as a full-time photographer to work for others who enjoy our natural world. A master birder whose first job was building portages for the National Park Service in Voyageurs National Park, she has always treated fieldcraft and natural history as the foundation of a photograph rather than an afterthought. Field & Frame is where she shares that knowledge openly, without gatekeeping, with photographers ready to use it.
Annalise grew up an unapologetically curious and semi-feral kid in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, the kind of childhood that, in hindsight, was exceptional training for a life dedicated to exploring wild things in wild places. For more than a decade, that background has served her well, taking her to almost 50 countries and into some of the most demanding field conditions on the planet.
Her photography and visual storytelling have appeared in Audubon Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC's Discover Wildlife, and the Associated Press, as well as on PBS, the Discovery Channel, Great Big Story, and more. Along the way, her work has helped further the causes of conservation organizations and NGOs including The Nature Conservancy, charity: water, Ducks Unlimited, and Habitat for Humanity International.
Her photographs live in the permanent collections of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations, and have been exhibited across North America, South America, and Europe, including the Planet Ocean exhibit at Gasometer Oberhausen in Germany and the current exhibition at the Midwest Center for Photography. She is a 2026 nominee for the Sony Alpha Female Creator of the Year award, and a decorated medalist in the International Photographic Competition through the Professional Photographers of America.
One of the most sought-after wildlife photography educators, Annalise has built a reputation not just for teaching people how to get the shot, but for grounding that instruction in the biology, ecology, and behavior of the animals themselves. It's an approach that has earned her a following among photographers who understand that better photography comes from a better understanding of the natural world.
When not in the field or teaching a workshop, Annalise can be found reacquainting herself with the Northwoods that raised her, dog Susan in tow, and spending time with the people who make the time in between trips just as worth showing up for.
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