Vern Clevenger is one of the Eastern Sierra's most established and well-known explorer, advocate, photographer and educator. Though his heart is in the Sierra Nevada, his photography and workshops range from Mammoth Lakes, Yosemite National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park to Big Sur in the United States and the beautiful regions of Provence, France and Venice, Italy in Europe.

Vern used film cameras until 2010 for the initial exposure. These days he incorporates digital processes to produce constant improvement in his art prints, but he remains faithful, as well, to fundamental principles of classical photography. He now pursues his passion to explore the “Visionary Wilderness” using the incredible the Canon 5DS, the Sony A7R in the back-country and Adobe Lightroom image processing software. Vern considers himself to be a "fine print-maker" just as much as a "fine-art photographer".

Vern calls Mammoth Lakes home and has his gallery there. When he isn't at work on his photographs he is drawing on the inspirational beauty of the mountains to develop new course material for his workshops.