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Anna Eshelman: “Where water carves; that’s fascinating to me.”

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Oregon cartographic designer, illustrator and production artist Anna Eshelman talks sketching Mt. Rainier while pulling 26-mile days on the Wonderland Trail, why she starts her illustrations with a blunt pencil, and the enormous manual shaded relief she’d finish if she had any time. See her work at annaeshelman.com

  • Garnet Point Trail Map
  • Wonderland Trail at Night
  • Tom Patterson’s shaded relief site: he makes beautiful maps and releases them to the public domain
  • Shaded Relief Archive
  • Marty Schnure’s ANWR panoramas
  • Climate.gov (Anna makes a lot of the maps and charts here)
  • Old Growth Forest Network


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