LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Spectacular California wildflower photography will be the topic at the Jan. 18 Zoom meeting of the Redbud Audubon Society at 7 p.m.

Internationally acclaimed conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter will share scenes of their 27-year journey photographing wildflowers and super-bloom landscapes throughout California and the West.

This decades-long journey led to the creation of their award-winning coffee-table book, “Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change," co-published with the California Native Plant Society.

The book, which has won 12 awards, is a celebration of California’s amazing plant diversity.

The book’s stories about the wildflowers are to inspire hope and action on climate change, and the book serves as a companion to their traveling educational exhibit.

Rob Badger and Nita Winter have been life partners and creative collaborators for more than three decades.

Their work has been featured in Time, Mother Jones, and Sierra magazines, the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times.

They are the recent recipients of the Sierra Club’s 2020 Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography.

The photographs in their book are not intended to show the effects of climate change on wildflowers.

Rather, Rob and Nita share what scientists, including some of the authors who contributed to their book, are learning about how climate change is affecting wildflowers and what we can do to protect them.

To register for the program, click on the registration link on the homepage of Redbud Audubon’s website. The Zoom link for the program will be sent on the day of the presentation.