Arthur Morris

Arthur Morris is a free-lance nature photographer, teacher, and writer specializing in birds. He is widely recognized as one of the world's premier bird photographers and photographic educators. His images, published the world over, are noted for both their artistic design and their technical excellence. His fitting credit line: BIRDS AS ART. The original "The Art of Bird Photography" is the classic How-to work on the subject. The all-new follow-up, The Art of Bird Photography II (916 pages on CD only) was released in 2006 to rave reviews. Arthur, one of the original "Explorers of Light," has been a Canon contract photographer for the past seventeen years and continues in that role today. He is a co-founding publisher of BirdPhotographers.Net and is a NANPA Fellow.

He has had eight BBC honored images including "Fire in the Mist" which graced the cover of "Light on the Earth" that featured 20 years of the best of the BBC Competition. "Gannets in Love" was awarded first place in Birds in the 2008 National Wildlife Federation Contest and first in "Art in Nature" in the 2008 Nature's Best Contest. All BIRDS AS ART images are available both as standard photographic prints and fine art canvases. Click here for details.

A popular speaker, he has conducted more than 450 slide programs and seminars over the past two decades. He currently travels, photographs, teaches, and speaks his way across North America and the world while leading several BIRDS AS ART/Instructional Photo-Tours and Photo-Cruises each year.

To learn more about Artie, visit his web site here and his informative, educational blog here.

George Lepp

George D. Lepp is one of North America's best-known contemporary outdoor and nature photographers. His passions for natural beauty, technical precision, cutting-edge technology, and environmental responsibility are revealed in his beautiful and compelling photographic images. He is also widely recognized for his unique dedication to sharing his photographic and biological knowledge with other photographers through his seminars and writing. In both realms, George Lepp is a leader in the rapidly advancing field of digital imaging.

Lepp's images have appeared in some of the world's most widely viewed venues and on the covers of many books and magazines, including Natural History, Car and Driver, PC Photo, and Outdoor Photographer; at prestigious galleries and museums throughout the United States; and at the corporate headquarters of Canon USA, Eastman Kodak, and Epson America. He was chosen by Canon USA as one of the first members of its Explorers of Light program, which features the industry's most influential photographers. He is known for his sweeping panoramas that capture the magnificence of locations in Africa, Antarctica, the Netherlands, and North America. His stock and assignment photography is represented by Getty, Corbis, AgStock, and Photo Researchers.

Lepp is regularly read in popular photographic magazines; he is the field editor of Digital Photo and Outdoor Photographer, where he has a monthly column, and an expert contributor to the on-line photography magazine, Pixiq.com. He is the author of many books, including the recent release Wildlife Photography: Stories from the Field, Golden Poppies of California, and Beyond the Basics I and II: Innovative Techniques for Outdoor and Nature Photography, as well as hundreds of articles on photography. He has taught at Photoshop World, Santa Fe Workshops, Palm Beach Workshops, and founded the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging, now known as Light Photographic Workshops. Lepp is a founding board member and fellow of the North American Nature Photographers Association and winner of many awards for his work, including Photo Media's Photography Person of the Year and the prestigious Progress Award, the highest given by the Photographic Society of America.

First trained in wildlife and wild lands management, George Lepp later earned a BPA and honorary MS in Professional Photography from Brooks Institute. He and his wife Kathryn, a writer and editor, live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Contact him through his web site, www.GeorgeLepp.com.

Connie Bransilver

Connie Bransilver's dedication to conservation photography spans all seven continents with special emphasis on Madagascar, where, under a National Geographic Grant, she was part of a team discovering a new species or sub-species of lemur; Indonesia, and her own southwest Florida. Her two published books focus on the conservation of Florida's swamp wetlands: Florida's Unsung Wilderness: The Swamps, with a foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall, and Wild Love Affair: Essence of Florida's Native Orchids. Her articles have appeared in many dozens of publications in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, and she is widely known for her multi-media slide and music, poetry lecture presentations on the value of the natural world. Her artwork hangs in museums and major corporate and private collections. She premiered her National Geographic Wild Chronicles segment on Madagascar at the Telluride Film Festival. Her photograph of a Ghost Orchid was selected as a main image at the IUCN Congress in Barcelona, Spain. She is a charter Fellow in the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) dedicated to ethical conservation photography. She is past President of the North American Nature Photography Assn. (NANPA) and has served on numerous boards serving conservation and photography.

Current Assignments: UNESCO Asia, 14 World Heritage and Biosphere Reserve sites in Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines and India, August, September and October, 2009. International traveling exhibition, Jakarta, 2010.

Guardians of the Everglades: Multimedia exhibition/installation of portraits, photographs, video, and banners highlighting Everglades conservation. Schedule:
Dec 2011-Jan 2012 Museum of Florida, Avon Park;
Feb 2012 Museum of the Everglades, Everglades City;
Mar 2012 Coe Visitors' Center, Everglades National Park;
Fall 2012, Deering Estate, Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL.

Major private, corporate, museum collections:

• Florida Museum for Women Artists, DeLand, Florida.
• Museum of Florida Art and Culture at South Florida Community College, Avon Park, FL.
• Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL.
• The Von Liebig Museum of Art, Naples, FL.
• Cleveland Clinics and Hospitals, Weston and Naples, FL.; Cleveland, OH.
• Swire Properties, the Courts at Brickell Key, Miami, FL.

One person shows at museums:

• Dec. 2006-Jan. 2007 - Museum of Florida Art and Culture at South Florida Community College, Avon Park, FL
• Museum of the Everglades, Everglades City, FL, Artist of the Month, October 2010

Selected Awards and Special Recognition:

• 2009 Florida Women's Museum, First Prize winner in photojournalism category for "Madagascar Burning."
• 2008 International Conservation Photography Awards, Seattle Museum of History and Industry, First Place Winner - "Documenting a Conservation Project" with 6 images from the Sadabe project in Madagascar, and "Environment at Risk" image "Wildfire." Sept. 1 – Oct. 12, 2008
• 2008 National Geographic Expeditions' Photo Contest, Honorable Mention.
• 2008 Winter issue of 1000 Friends of Florida to feature the photographs of natural Florida. November 2008
• 2007 Best in Category, Environment at Risk, 2007 Environmental
• Photography Invitational Gallery Show. Image: "Madagascar Burning"
• 2007 Special Recognition, Florida Showcase, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa. Invitational exhibition on Florida Conservation Photography including Clyde Butcher, John Moran, Carlton Ward, Jr. and others. Images: Preening, Ghost Classic, Pink Tutu
• 2007 Finalist, BBC /Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Image: Bolt on Fakahatchee Strand. Semi-finalist 8 images.
• 2008 Semi-finalist, BBC/Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year. 10 images.
• 2006 Field Producer, National Geographic's 'Wild Chronicles' Episode 205, aired on PBS stations nationwide in November featured Connie Bransilver's still and video images, bringing to light the discovery of a new species of lemur in Madagascar and a thrilling exploration of conservation, education and the human relationship with wild Madagascar
• 2006 Premier event speaker, Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour at Watercolor, Florida, and Artist's Conservation Exhibition at Cerulean's. Audience: approximately 1,000
• 2005 Charter Fellow, Executive Committee, International League of Conservation Photographers
• 2005 'Woman of Achievement,' American Association of University Women, Naples, FL
• 2005 First Photographic Artist on the Artist's Studio Tour, Friends of Art at the Naples Art Museum at the Philharmonic
• 1999 African Wildlife Foundation Photographer of the Year
• 1997 Grand Prize Photograph, Explorers Club Magazine for Chinstrap Penguins on Ice, Antarctica
• 1996 Fellow (FN'96) of the internationally recognized Explorers Club, headquartered in NYC. Fellows are people who have actively participated in exploration or have substantially enlarged the scope of human knowledge through scientific achievements with published reports, books and articles.
• 1995 UN Conference on Women, Grand Prize Winner, Photograph selected for use as Symbol of Conference. Followed by Exhibit and World Tour. Image: Lily Lady of Madagascar.

Bill Fortney

Bill Fortney is a professional photographer of 43 years experience.

Bill has been a newspaper and magazine photojournalist, & sports photographer, (He was the official photographer for the Washington Redskins in their strike shortened Super Bowl Championship season). Bill has done medical photography, commercial, annual report work. For the last twenty years Bill has been one of America's leading nature photographers, founding the Great American Photography Workshop company. A much sought after speaker, Bill was once called in a newspaper article, "the Will Rogers of Photography".

His best selling books include: The Nature of America, America From 500 Feet, American Vision, and Bill Fortney's Great Photography Workshop, Getting Serious About Outdoor Photography. Bill's book sales well exceed 100,000 copies, making him one of the top photographer/authors in America. America From 500 Feet was one of the largest selling aviation photography books of all time. Bill's latest project is the book America From 500 Feet II, published in 2008. In 2003 Bill was been named a Fellow by the North American Nature Photographers Association.

Eight years ago Bill joined Nikon as a Nikon Professional Services technical representative. He covers the Southern U.S. and is Nikon's liaison representative for the natural history market for all of America. Bill lives in Corbin, Kentucky, (when he is not on a Delta jet), with his wife Sherelene. He has three adult children and six grandchildren.

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Ron Wyatt

Ron Wyatt's first experience with photography was an unsuccessful photo documentation of his honeymoon. Armed with a borrow instamatic camera, he learned that camera shake will notproduce great photos.

Ron, a self-taught photographer has covered the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball. He alsophotograph two Summer Olympic Games. His photos have appeared in various publications suchas: USA Today, Black Enterprise Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek TV Guide, ESPN andothers.

He currently covers corporate assignments for, Six Flags, Eastman Kodak, Continental Airlines, CVS, Pepsico, Verizon and many others. His Photography has allowed him to traveled to variousparts of the world. I was assigned by Kodak to photograph two Summer Olympic Games, (Athens2004 and Beijing 2008). His Olympic work was feature in the Nov. 2008 issue of StudioPhotography and a 7 page spread in the July 2009 issue of RangeFinder Magazine.

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Russell Caron

Russell Caron started photographing weddings as a young man in the late 1970's. After a corporate career in between, at the advent of the digital era, he returned to wedding photography in the early 2000's.then went full-time in 2008; first doing a mix of portraits, children, high school seniors, as well as weddings, and whatever people were willing to pay him to photograph. This soon became exclusively full-time wedding photography, as he settled into his niche market. He is one the busiest wedding photographers in his area, and photographs weddings throughout Maine, New England, Boston, and in destination locations such as the Caribbean and Italy. He is active in several groups in his region, enjoys mentoring and teaching, and is the President-Elect of the Maine Professional Photographers Association.