Andy Anderson

YOU MIGHT SAY ANDY ANDERSON IS AN ACCIDENTAL FINE-ART PHOTOGRAPHER. AS ACCOMPLISHED AS HE IS with a camera, the life of the lens wasn’t really his plan.

During a one-year posting in the 1980s as a firefighter at a remote duty station in King Salmon, Alaska, the beauty of the area — and its fantastic rainbow trout and salmon fishing — inspired Anderson to start taking photographs. He had seen a cover of a sporting magazine at the grocery store and thought, I can do this — how hard can it be? Soon his work was published in a fly-fishing magazine, and by the end of his tour of duty, Anderson had taken up