Photography
Don Pitcher is a professional photographer based in Homer, Alaska. He has traveled extensively and his images have appeared in many books, galleries, magazines, websites, and for commercial uses around the world. Find his work in Homer and Anchorage galleries, including Ptarmigan Arts Cooperative Gallery.
Travel Guidebooks
Don has written and photographed many travel guidebooks for Moon, Fodor’s, and DK Eyewitness Travel. His current titles cover Southcentral Alaska and the San Juan Islands of Washington State. The brand new 2026 edition of Anchorage, Denali & The Kenai Peninsula is now available in bookstores and online.
Based at the end-of-the-road town of Homer, Alaska, photographer and author Don Pitcher has lived in Alaska for much of his adult life. He grew up on the East Coast, and moved west where he received a masters degree in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California Berkeley.
Shortly after graduate school Don landed what seemed the coolest job on the planet: being flown around Alaska’s massive Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in a helicopter while conducting fire ecology research. Wild places continued to beckon, and over the next 15 years he worked for the National Park Service, US Forest Service, and Alaska Department of Fish & Game, building backcountry trails, working as a wilderness ranger, mapping grizzly habitat, and operating salmon weirs—anything to avoid an office job.
Don Pitcher is a highly regarded travel and nature photographer, but he has also written and photographed many travel guidebooks. His photos have appeared in a multitude of publications and his fine art prints are sold in a half-dozen Alaska galleries.
