Howie Garber is a professional photographer in addition to being an emergency physician. Originally from Massachusetts, he has lived in Salt Lake City, Utah for twenty six years. His interest in photography dates back to 1969, when he took a class on the History of Photography at the University of Rochester.His first trip outside the United States was in 1990, when he trecked in Nepal for 3 weeks. Shooting 40 rolls of film seemed excessive at the time. In 1991, after a ski trip to Argentina, he made an impromptu trip to Iguacu Falls on the Brazil-Argentina border. His wanderlust was rewarded with a stroke of incredible good luck. He met his friend Sandra when she picked him up hitch-hiking on his birthday. Sandra was capturing, releasing, and tracking jaguars. She inspired his photography by introducing him to a new pleasure of observing wildlife. According to him, it seemed miraculous at first, to be able to capture what he was seeing on film. Howie found wildlife photography to be as challenging and exciting as his other profession.

His passion has recently been rewarded; in 1997 Howie won the Wild Places category of the Bg plc/BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest with an image of Paine Cuernos and Lake Reflection in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. Also in 1997, he won the LowePro/Outdoor Photographer Endangered Spaces photo contest with a black and white image of two mountain goats perched high above a Colorado valley. His photograph "King of the River" of a Kodiak brown bear standing over a river won a merit award and back cover of the National Wildlife magazine in January 1998. His images have also appeared in the 1998 Sierra Club and Audubon engagement calendars, as Healthy Planet and Ancient Images notecards, and in numerous magazines. His work is currently represented by five stock agencies worldwide.