Since 1976, Dale C. Spartas has been an outdoor photographer and writer, whose work has allowed him the pleasure of hunting, fishing, and subsequently photographing a vast array of outdoor activities. His assignments have taken him not only across the United States and its surrounding waters, but to countries such as Canada, Africa, South America and Iceland.

Dale has had more than 6,700 photographs published, including  250 magazine covers. Dale is on the masthead of Gray’s Sporting Journal and has had more than 70 photo essays published in Gray’s since 1985. He is also on the masthead of Sports Afield, Trout Magazine, and Flyfish America. Editorially Dale is frequently published in Sports Afield, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, American Hunter, Retriever Journal, Pointing Dog Journal, Men's Journal, Town & Country, Flyfisherman, Gun Dog, Wing & Shot, Wildfowl and in Orvis Catalogs. 

Dale's commercial clients include Orvis, C.C. Filson,  McAlister, Remington Arms, Sig-Arms, Browning Arms, Winchester, 7 Lakes Lodge, Hatchet Lake Lodge, and Turneffe Island Lodge. 

His books include Just Labs, Just Goldens, The Little Book of Fly Fishing, and 101 Uses for Labs. Dale recently completed two new books: Rooster!, which is a tribute to pheasant hunting, and To The Point, a tribute to the beauty and sport of hunting with pointing dogs.

Dale lives in Bozeman, Montana with his wife, 3 children, black lab, English pointer and Brittany spaniel.