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Dan Sproul
Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photographer Dan Sproul Fine Art PhotographyLima Ohio 45801 United States Home Phone: 5677123661 Website: Portfolio & Fine Art Prints
Bio
Dan Sproul is a fine art landscape, wildlife, and nature photographer based in Lima, Ohio. Over more than a decade, his work has grown into a catalog of 8,500+ images, with prints sold across all 50 states and more than 20 countries. Shooting primarily with Canon DSLR equipment, Dan focuses on landscape, wildlife, waterfall, and nature subjects — often photographing the Oregon Coast, Colorado, Alaska, and the Smoky Mountains, alongside the natural landscapes of his home state of Ohio.
His photography has been installed commercially at Drury Hotels properties, including the Findlay, Ohio and St. Louis lobbies, and at the Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University. Dan works directly with healthcare, hospitality, and senior living designers to select and scale nature photography for patient rooms, waiting areas, lobbies, and common spaces, drawing on evidence-based design research into the calming effects of nature imagery in clinical and hospitality environments.
Dan is an avid hiker with a deep respect for wildlife, and that time in the field shapes the calm, observational quality of his photography. His full portfolio, collections, and commercial project resources are available at dsproul.com.
Artist Statement
I photograph the natural world the way I experience it in the field — quiet, unhurried, and attentive to light. Whether I’m on a coastline before sunrise or deep in a forest waiting for the fog to lift, I’m looking for the moment a landscape feels most itself.
My work moves between raw wilderness and considered interior spaces. A print that begins as a solitary hike often ends up on the wall of a hotel lobby or a hospital corridor, where its role changes — no longer just a photograph, but part of how a room feels to the people who spend time in it. I care as much about that second life as the first: how scale, framing, and placement let a nature image do real work in a space, offering a moment of calm, familiarity, or connection to place. That intersection — honest outdoor photography and thoughtful interior use — is where most of my current work lives.