No Do-Overs In Paradise: A Photographer’s Sporting Memoir | Stephen Collector | Foreword by Terry McDonell | $25 | 9781948509732 | 320 p with photographs | Release October 2026
Stephen Collector’s No Do-Overs In Paradise is a collection of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities many of us could only dream of. His work as a professional photographer has taken him front and center to many of the most remarkable sporting locations the western hemisphere has to offer. He shared time with Legends of the Fall author Jim Harrison, dined at Jimmy Buffett’s house in Key West, witnessed the indigenous wisdom of a Cheyenne medicine woman in Montana, and so much more. These enchanting essays, along with many of his award-winning photographs, cover all four seasons of the sporting year. Collector captures all the thrills, the disappointments, and the remarkable lessons this world has to pass on to each of us.
Stephen Collector was born in Virginia in 1951. After attending George Washington University for two years, he transferred to the University of Colorado in 1971. A longtime freelance photographer, his book of Stock Detectives, Law of the Range: Portraits of Old-Time Brand Inspectors was published in 1991 by Clark City Press, Livingston, Montana. His feature writing has appeared in The Drake, Anglers Journal, American Angler, The Big Sky Journal, Tail Fly Fishing, Quail Forever Journal, Modern Huntsman, and The Pointing Dog Journal. His photographs have been widely exhibited throughout the West. Collector, who resides in Boulder, Colorado, is a lifelong sportsman. Click here to see his website