Hullihen Williams Moore is a landscape photographer. Through his work, Mr. Moore seeks to let others know some of the wonder, power, and beauty of the wilderness of nature. He has concentrated on the mountains of Virginia.

In college at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, Mr. Moore was a stringer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and was paid five dollars for each photograph used by the paper. Later at the University of Virginia, he continued to make pictures as a hobby, often traveling into the mountains to photograph.

In the 1970's, Mr. Moore bought his first view camera and began working with 4” x 5” black and white film and making his own prints.  In 1979, Moore studied with Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. In addition, he has studied landscape photography and fine print making with noted landscape photographers John Sexton and Philip Hyde.

Mr. Moore’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is held in the art collections of major corporations including Capital One and Owens & Minor.

His book, Shenandoah: Views of Our National Park, was published by the University of Virginia Press in October, 2003. The work contains 51 images, made over more than 20 years. From grand vistas and waterfalls to the delicate unfurling of new ferns, these duotone prints capture the singular appeal that attracts more than 1 million visitors to the park each year. In two essays, Moore addresses the natural and human history of the park as well as his own personal experience of it, including stories behind several individual photographs.

National Public Radio Weekend Edition – Sunday featured Mr. Moore and his book in a December, 2003, broadcast. NPR said:

Today, Hullie Moore’s book of photographs, Shenandoah: Views of Our National Park … may be doing for Shenandoah what Adams did for Yosemite. Moore captures the park’s waterfalls, vistas, ice-laden trees and budding flowers in black and white images that are both simple and profound.

Concurrent with the publication of Mr. Moore's book, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has mounted a traveling exhibit of images from the book to tour Virginia. Eileen Mott, Exhibition Curator of the Virginia Museum, said of Moore’s work:

He shows us water as we have never seen it, falling and spraying with delight in its own energy. He gives us the gift of pause in the image of a single wildflower. American poet William Carlos Williams said, “poets write for a single reason—to give witness to splendor.” That, above all else, is the unselfish and poetic bequest of Hullihen Williams Moore’s photographs. Splendor.

The exhibit has been showcased throughout Virginia at more than a dozen venues and the collection was exhibited in Washington D. C. at the Department of the Interior.

The October-November, 2003, issue of albemarle magazine featured a 10-page portfolio of Moore's work and an excerpt from his book. Mr. Moore received the silver award for the albemarle photographic essay from the International Regional Magazine Association. In addition, the book has been recognized for excellence by the Association of Partners for Public Lands.

A portfolio of Mr. Moore's photographs has appeared in Blue Ridge Country and his images have also appeared on calendars and on six popular posters he has published of the Shenandoah National Park. In addition to the current Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibit, Mr. Moore has had numerous one-person shows throughout Virginia.

Mr. Moore uses a wooden 4 x 5 view camera and works out of a dark room in his home. Each original print 20" x 24" and smaller may be mounted on museum board with an overmat and signed by the artist. Larger original prints, approximately 30” x 40” or larger, are signed by the artist but may be rolled for shipping depending on the requirements of the customer. All prints meet current archival standards.