Vince Patton retired in 2016 from OPB's outdoor documentary show, "Oregon Field Guide."

Previously, Vince worked in television news for 27 years in Portland, Dallas, Denver and Wichita, Kansas.

He has won 10 Emmy Awards, including six for his work at OPB, and more than two dozen regional and national journalism honors from American Association for the Advancement of Science, Scripps Howard, ACE, SEJ and CINE. In 2003, he was one of a dozen U.S. journalists chosen for a prestigious Knight Wallace Fellowship for a year of study at the University of Michigan.

Vince has a degree from the University of Missouri.

Vince is an avid nature photographer whose images have won honors from the Oregonian and the Oregon State Fair and have been featured in OPB member guides and calendars.  Vince retired from OPB in the spring of 2016.