| Nikhil Bahl is a full time professional photographer, author, educator, workshop instructor and environmentalist residing in the Washington D.C. area. Drawing continuous inspiration from nature, Nikhil adopts novel approaches to find meaningful interpretations of his subjects—to create photographs that transcend the commonplace, reflecting deeper insights, and conveying an enchantment with the subject's beauty. An offshoot of Nikhil's fine art photography is his documentation of wildlife behaviors and habitats. As a volunteer with the National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, his goal is to portray environmental stories with an artistic appeal...to create images that educate and motivate about the imperative of conservation. Nikhil leads photography tours and instructional workshops in the United States and abroad, where he encourages participants to advance beyond predictable photos and develop their own style and vision. Nikhil is a popular speaker at photography clubs, expos and industry events. He is author of the acclaimed ebook, Creative Interpretations, and he writes articles on the creative and technical aspects of photography.
www.nikhilbahl.com
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| Dennis Brack is one of our country's most accomplished and honored photojournalists. Over the course of five decades, he has photographed every American president—from JFK to the present. For twenty-three years, he averaged a picture a week in Time magazine. His photos from the first Gulf War were on the covers of Time, Newsweek, and Paris Match, among others. Brack served for many years as President of the White House News Photographers Association and secretary/treasurer of the United States Senate Standing Committee of Press Photographers. He was the Lifetime Achievement Award Winner and honored at the White House News Photographers Association "Eyes of History" Gala. He has donated his historically significant image collection to The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas, which has sponsored a major exhibition of his photographs. Brack is the author of Presidential Picture Stories: Behind the Camera at the White House, a unique look at how photographers have covered the Washington political scene dating back to Abraham Lincoln. Brack is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and George Washington University School of Law.
www.dennisbrack.com
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| Jon Cox is a National Geographic Explorer, assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of Delaware, Board Member of the Dorobo Fund for Tanzania and Board member of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research. Cox's latest published work was a six-year collaborative documentary book project with hunter-gatherers in Tanzania titled Hadzabe, By the Light of a Million Fires. Jon has directed over twenty photographic study-abroad programs across the globe, including destinations to Antarctica, South East Asia, Tanzania, Australia, Tasmania and several countries in South America. A pioneer in the field of digital photography, he has served as the adventure photographer/writer for Digital Camera Magazine and authored two Amphoto digital photography books. Jon is a co-recipient of a National Geographic-Genographic Legacy Fund Grant to support his current collaborative cultural mapping initiative with the Ese'Eja hunter-gatherers living in the Amazonia basin of Peru.
www.jon-cox.org
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| Chris Georgia's journey into the stars began at a young age with a great fascination of the night skies in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After years of patient practice with film and digital cameras and a self taught education in astronomy, one night he found himself on an island in the middle of a lake in Nowhere, Maine. Under dark skies, he pointed his Nikon south and north. What appeared on his LCD—the Milky Way Galaxy and Aurora Borealis—changed his life forever. He discovered his path in life: to capture the night sky. Chris studies and photographs as much as time and weather permit. He leads workshops and makes presentations about astrophotography around New England (he currently resides in southern New Hampshire). He creates fine art and short time lapse films, as well as filming/time lapse for the BBC. He has been featured in the TWAN Earth and Sky contest, has had multiple features on Space.com, Bing.com, EarthSky.com, and has presented on astrophotography at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (Concord, NH) and the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge (Newburyport, MA).
www.christophergeorgia.photography
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| Steve Gottlieb is the founder/director of the Horizon Photography Summit. Thousands of his images—from architecture to people to landscapes—have been published worldwide, including in Shutterbug, Popular Photography, American Photo, Rangefinder, and Photo District News. He been recognized with such awards as "Advertising Photograph of the Year" in both NYC and Washington, DC. He is the photographer—as well as author and designer—of six books, including American Icons; Washington: Portrait of a City; FLUSH: Celebrating Bathrooms Past & Present; and Abandoned America. The latter book was selected by both People Magazine and USA Today as "Gift Book of the Year." Shutterbug referred to Steve as "a gifted photographer and author." A graduate of Columbia University College and Law School, Steve practiced law for a decade before turning his life-long hobby into his vocation. Steve also leads workshops to promote innovation and teambuilding in organizations. (www.visionmining.com)
www.gottliebphoto.com
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| John Lauritsen began working in the digital darkroom in 1995 with Adobe Photoshop 3. He stays current with new software upgrades—in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Lightroom—and incorporates new features into his digital workflow. John is a 2001 graduate of the Art Institute of York, PA, where he majored in multi-media design. For the past decade, he has worked as both a photographer and graphic designer. He became a Horizon Teaching Associate in 2010 and lives in Elkton, Maryland. (http://www.jlauritsen.com) |
| Leo Howard Lubow is a writer, educator and award-winning photographer who specializes in portraits, commercial and promotional images and fine art prints. He has created a varied body of images for clients, including: Simon & Schuster, The Huffington Post, Good Morning America, Downbeat Magazine, Jazziz, JazzTimes, the Monterey Jazz Festival, NPR.org, Baltimore Magazine and American Dog Magazine. He conceives, photographs and designs CD covers and inserts for many musicians. Leo also has photographed over 90 billboards/posters for the "Show Your Soft Side Campaign," a pro-bono anti-animal abuse effort that reaches a weekly Facebook audience of more than 250,000. He teaches classes and one-on-one sessions in digital photography and Photoshop in his studio and on location. Leo has a special interest in lone travelers, from street musicians and artists, to homeless people; he looks for moments of emotional resonance in their lives.
www.lubowphotography.com
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| As a staff photographer for National Geographic magazine for over 15 years, Bob Madden produced the photographs for more than twenty stories (he wrote some, too) and for several National Geographic books. And he continues to travel the world today. Travels across all seven continents exposed him to an extraordinary diversity of cultures and customs, from the Yanomamo Indians in the jungles of Venezuela, to street life in Brooklyn, New York, to the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay, the area Bob calls home. His long list of awards and credits include Magazine Photographer of the Year (twice) and College Photographer of the Year. Bob has also been immersed in photography from another perspective: he served as Director of Design at the National Geographic magazine and has received design awards from the Society of Publication Designers, The New York Art Directors Club, and Communication Arts. Bob's experiences have equipped him to help students hone their photographic skills on the international photo tours he leads.
www.bobmadden.com
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| Hazel Meredith is involved with the photographic community on local, regional and national levels. She is currently treasurer of the Greater Bridgeport Camera Club; member of the New Haven Camera Club; secretary of the Connecticut Association of Photographers; and a Vice President of the New England Camera Club Council. She is active in the Photographic Society of America (PSA) and the National Photography Enthusiasts Group (NPEG). Hazel's photos have won many awards in both club competitions and international salons. She received an honors distinction of Master Member of the New England Camera Club Council (MNEC) and the PSA Service Award. Hazel teaches at many New England camera clubs as well as photographic conferences and events throughout the U.S. She also offers workshops and travel photo trips through her company, Meredith Images. She just released her first eBook, "Working with Textures & Overlays: Turn Ho-Hum into a Work of Art."
www.meredithimages.com
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| Following a distinguished career as a senior manager in major retail stores, Karen Messick turned her hobby of photography into her full-time work. She quickly became recognized as both an outstanding photographer and photographic educator. In addition to her traditional photography, she has embraced the use of high dynamic range and plug-in software for creating artistic adaptations of her images. Her work has been featured in a variety of magazines and she has exhibited widely. She is a frequent lecturer on composition, design, macro photography, photographic Impressionism and iPhone photography. Karen has written articles and had portfolio images published in iPhoneLife Magazine and Nature Photographer magazine. Currently she is a field contributor for Nature Photographer magazine and the iPhone Photography (on line) School. She has led workshops in locations across the United States and Europe and teaches in the Odyssey Program at Johns Hopkins University and at the Capital Photography Center in Washington, DC. Her iPhone stock images are available through the Aurora agency. She lives in Baltimore where, for four years, she served as president of the Baltimore Camera Club.
www.karenlmessickphotography.com
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| Chris O'Connell is the owner of Focus Media Services, a video production and marketing agency in Media, PA. Founded in 2002, the company specializes in high impact video marketing campaigns and aerial videography to help businesses and organization tell their story through video, digital and social media platforms. And he offers aerial videography training. A graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, with a degree in radio-television-film, Chris is also an Emmy Award winning reporter for Fox 29 News in Philadelphia. Prior to that, he was an anchor and reporter for KSTP in St. Paul, MN, a sports anchor and reporter at Bay News 9 in Tampa, Florida, and bureau chief and reporter with WTVR in Richmond, VA. Chris has been nominated for several Emmy Awards and in 2011 won an Emmy for Outstanding General Assignment reporting. The Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists have honored him for his career as a reporter. Chris is very involved with The Friends of Alexander Deihl Foundation, a charity that helps families of terminally ill children, founded in honor of Chris' nephew, who suffers from the rare disease, Menke's Syndrome.
www.focusmediaservices.com
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| Expressing emotion was perceived as a sign of weak character in the working class North East of England where Arthur Ransome grew up. But Arthur had a desire to share his emotions and he has pursued photography as his outlet. A relative latecomer to fine art photography, Arthur began his photographic life when scuba diving in Puerto Rico. Moving to the Washington DC / Baltimore area in 2005 stopped the scuba diving, and Arthur sought imagery above sea level. Working mainly with 35mm and sometimes 4x5 view cameras, he photographs in black and white. Although his subject matter is varied, his constant is choosing subjects that express emotion and a sense of time, place and being. Arthur's work has been featured in B&W Magazine and Silvershotz Magazine and has been included in several exhibitions around the United States. He has published two books, Lonaconing Silk Mill: Portrait of a Place and Iceland, A Journey Into Dreams. He expresses his feelings, thoughts and philosophy about photography on his blog and as an active speaker at national and international photography events and camera clubs.
www.aransomephoto.com
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| During his 35-year career as a commercial photographer, Rich Russo has created images for a wide range of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to dynamic young startups, including Jaguar, Sony, Tiffany, Schering-Plough, IDT, Corby Hall, Macy's, Shop Rite, Weichert Realtors and Drew University. His work has won many awards from the Art Directors Club of New Jersey, the AR 100 Awards, the New York Art Directors Club, and the RX Awards among others. Rich has served on the board of the American Society of Media Photographers. He has helped educate, encourage and nurture aspiring young photographers in his capacity as adjunct professor at New Jersey colleges, as well as running workshops and seminars for corporations and individuals. He holds a Degree in Fine Art from Rutgers University and in Commercial Photography.
www.richrusso.com
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| Dain Simons is the owner of Cameras Etc in Newark, Delaware. He has been involved with photography for 25 years and has watched the camera world go from film to digital, and the photographic print world go from darkrooms to scanners and digital printers. Dain has kept abreast of developments throughout. He has experience with all film formats--35mm, medium format, 4 x 5, even 20"x24" Polaroid--and he is familiar with equipment from Canon, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, and more. Dain earned his BA with a concentration in photography from the University of Delaware. His images have been exhibited throughout the state of Delaware and in NYC. Dain teaches at Horizon Photography Workshops and lives in Newark, Delaware. |
| Tony Sweet is a landscape and nature photographer who is widely acclaimed for combining a highly creative eye with mastery of a range of digital tools. His photography has been published worldwide in every medium; his images have been used in national ad campaigns by Nikon, MacPhun, Singh Ray, Alien Skin, Topaz, and Lensbaby, among others. He is represented by Getty Images; his iPhone photography is represented by Aurora Photos. Tony and Susan Milestone conduct Visual Artistry photography location workshops in the United States, Canada, and Iceland. Tony maintains an active speaking schedule to photography organizations, industry trade shows and PPA schools. He also conducts Visual Artistry Creativity Seminar series, is an on-line charter instructor for betterphoto.com, and offers private instruction. Tony has authored five books on the art of photography: Fine Art Nature Photography ('02), Fine Art Flower Photography ('05) Fine Art Nature Photography: Water, Ice, Fog ('07), Fine Art Digital Photography ('09) and HDR Photography (2011). With Masterphoto Workshops, he has co-produced four photography DVDs: Visual Artistry, HDR Made Easy, Visual Literacy and Flower Photography Artistry, as well as an iPhone instructional video series. His Creativity Seminar lecture series and On Location-Cape Cod will be released soon.
www.tonysweet.com
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| Kelly Walkotten's passions for scuba diving, photography and writing bring her wonder of nature to others. She captures images and then, through research, writing, and presentation, teaches audiences about the habitat and behavior of unique creatures from around the world. Kelly started with a point and shoot underwater film camera. Wanting to take better pictures, she purchased her first SLR and began photographing above water to master her camera and enhance her skills. Her images, articles, and blogs have brought the undersea world to readers of the PSA Journal and FemWorldview.com. These publications have featured articles by Kelly that include photos from diving the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Indo-Pacific and her favorite destination, Indonesia, where she spent fourteen weeks documenting the diverse and unusual creatures in North Sulawesi's Bunaken, Lembeh Strait, and Raja Ampat, homes of some of the world's most pristine reefs and unusual creatures. Next up: Philippines, Maldives, and Sea of Cortez. With her extensive use of, and familiarity with, photo editing software, Kelly has developed instructional lessons about Adobe Suite products—Photoshop, Elements, and Lightroom—with an emphasis on underwater images and nature.
www.kellywalkottenphotography.com
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