Naturally Kiawah Magazine Volume 40 | Page 38

Wandering Lowcountry Waterways … With a Camera Story by Shauneen Hutchinson; photographs by Eric Horan T  ake a trip along any of the waterways of the Lowcountry, and you are likely to see Eric Horan piloting a small boat filled with passengers, many of whom will have a camera in hand. Eric is a commercial and environmental photographer based in Beaufort, South Carolina. As a young person, he spent most of his time outdoors on his family’s ranch in Colorado hunting, hiking, boating, fishing, and skiing. He spent summers in northern Michigan racing sailboats. Eric graduated from Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, with a degree in commercial art and photography. His first job included photographing wildlife for the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Department documenting wildlife behavior. For him, photographing everything from bighorn sheep, elk, and coyote to bullfrogs, opened the door to a life-long study of the natural world. 36 Naturally Kiawah