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Diane Kelsay

Diane Kelsay is a professional nature photographer who focuses her talents and images on natural history and nature tourism topics. Her camera and professional activities have taken her to many of the most special natural and cultural areas of North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and China.

Diane’s images have appeared around the globe in publications, books, multi-image slide presentations, and internet sites. She and partner Bob Harvey have authored and designed several books. Her photography and multi-image productions have garnered praise and awards. The books have received top honors And tourism marketing publications using her work have consistently captured high national awards.

In all situations, Diane’s photography seeks to express her desire to share the art in her subject. She captures dramatic light, vibrant colors, unique patterns, and strong lines as she photographs the world without altering it. She loves to hike, climb, dive, paddle, explore her way to photographic opportunities. She also expresses the natural and cultural world through fiber arts, often weaving in the designs she has seen through her lens.

Diane loves to teach photography to small groups of avid students, and to guide travelers through exciting natural and cultural experiences. She has led photography and natural history workshops and adventures since the early 1980s from the Galapagos to Alaska.

DianeKelsay@NaturePhotography.us
www.NaturePhotography.us

Bob Harvey

Bob Harvey is at home in the natural world, happiest when walking a forest trail, wandering down a secluded beach, or exploring a canyon, camera in hand. Bob’s photography and communications skills, coupled with his love of the natural world, have led him to a career in tourism that has taken him to some of the most exciting natural photo wonderlands of the world.

Bob has taught photography for over 20 years, first to college students, then to people traveling to learn in special environments. His teaching is based on the fundamentals of photographic technique rather than techno gizmos – and on knowing and seeing the natural world around. Bob is equally at home with a view camera or a digital camera, and can plan for a “fine print” or a “web” gallery, weighing appropriate technical decisions along the way. His teaching technique strives to take the mystery out of photographic processes and free the photographer to interpret the scene.

Bob’s photography has been seen ‘round the world in publications, multi-image slide programs, books, and through the internet. Bob and his partner Diane Kelsay have co-authored several photography based natural history books, which have received international acclaim.

Bob is an experienced natural history guide, as well as a photographic instructor. He shares his fascination with the flora and fauna, geology, weather, and archaeology with those he is guiding and teaching.

BobHarvey@NaturePhotography.US
www.NaturePhotography.US

Drama – Bringing it Home in your Images

As Photographers, we all travel around the world to put great scenes in front of our lenses. We get up early, stay up late, endure wild storms, and half freeze to death, all to be there for the most dramatic light. But, are we prepared to wrest control from all the bells and whistles built into our cameras to make the best exposure when we finally get to a great place in dramatic light? Whether you work in film or digital media, there is an art to reading dramatic light – and an even greater art to understanding how that light will perform in the image you are making.”

Communicating with Images

Bob Harvey and Diane Kelsay have made photography an integral tool in their company, Egret Communications, which tackles the communications and planning challenges of nature and culture tourism and conservation. They have decades of experience using images of nature and culture to accomplish specific communications challenges. They have used images to:

… rethink whether Yellowstone was destroyed by the fires of 1988

… help restart the flow of tourism to Honduras after Hurricane Mitch

… protect the coastal mangroves of Belize

… teach visitors to participate in protecting turtle nesting beaches in Mexico

… generate support for efforts toward cleaning up the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

… build a constituency to protect old growth temperate and tropical rainforests

… develop an ecotourism project to restore the Great Panda habitat in China.

Joe LeFevre

25 Candlewood Dr, Oswego, NY  13126
www.joelefevrephoto.com

Joe LeFevre is a chemistry professor at SUNY Oswego, where he has given numerous lectures and taught workshops on landscape photography. A self-taught photographer, Joe has been photographing natural landscapes for over 25 years. Since 2001 he has been concentrating on composite panoramic photographs. He has won numerous awards for his photography, including four consecutive first-place finishes in the Professional Color Photography Division of the New York State Fair (2000-2003) and Best of Show in 2003. In 2002 Joe received the Best in Graphics Award in the nationally recognized 68th Regional Exhibition at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, NY. He has also exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY as part of the 2002 Biennial Exhibition. His work has appeared regionally in Adirondack Life magazine and wall calendar, New York State Conservationist magazine, and nationally in Outdoor Photographer magazine.

Panoramic Possibilities (Friday night program)

Using digital projection, Joe will show viewers how he uses single frame 35 mm images taken with a conventional single lens reflex camera to build his composite panoramic photographs. He will illustrate the versatility of this technique with examples of his images created from lenses with focal lengths ranging from 28 mm wide angle to 300 mm telephoto. He will also illustrate methods for composing macro panoramas. Joe will end the program with an exciting digital slide show set to music. If you want to expand your photographic horizons, don’t miss this program!

Making Composite Panoramas Using PhotoShop and Other Imaging Software (Saturday workshop)

In this workshop, Joe will share the details of how he uses Adobe Photoshop and other imaging software to produce his composite panoramic photographs. He will also cover the field techniques necessary for capturing the original images. The methods are applicable to both film and digital capture of images. A general working knowledge of Photoshop is helpful, but not necessary. For viewers’ convenience, a complete set of notes will be provided. Anyone who owns a 35 mm SLR and computer will benefit from this creative and affordable approach to producing panoramic images.

Ethan Meleg ... Photography of the Bruce Peninsula
Website:  www.ethanmeleg.com ... email: info@ethanmeleg.com
Phone: (519) 534-0619

About Ethan

Ethan Meleg is a professional naturalist and photographer, specializing in birds and wilderness landscapes. Growing up near world famous birding location Point Pelee National Park inspired his love of nature. A self taught photographer, Ethan's photos are published widely in books, calendars, brochures, magazines and ads. His credits include: Ranger Rick, Forbes, Canadian Geographic, Wyman Calendars, Lonely Planet, Cottage Life Birder's World, Birding, Birdwatch (UK), Wildbird, Living Bird, National Wildlife, Nature Canada, Seasons, Canoe & Kayak and many more. At only 32 years of age, Ethan is already established as one of Canada's premier nature photographers.

Ethan lives by the shore of Georgian Bay, on the rugged and beautiful Bruce Peninsula. His great passion in life is exploring the natural world with his camera, whether on distant travels or in his own backyard. Please visit www.ethanmeleg.com to learn more about Ethan or his photos.

Life on the Edge: Ontario's Bruce Peninsula

Spectacular scenery and a high natural diversity make the Bruce Peninsula a nature lovers dream! The rugged eastern shore of the peninsula is rimmed by the towering cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment, which plunge into the Caribbean-blue waters of Georgian Bay. Expansive forests, wetlands, shorelines and rare alvars form a wild mosaic, which is home to black bears, delicate orchids and hundreds of bird species. In this program, Ethan Meleg will share his favourite images and adventures from the Bruce Peninsula, his home for the past seven years.

Creating Science Fantasy (Digital compositing using Adobe Photoshop techniques)

Bogdan J Fundalinski,
PPA Certified, M Photog Cr, ASP

Bogdan Fundalinski has lectured to photographers since 1989 and has spoken thought New York State as well as in Ontario, Canada. He has been published, most notably, in Professional Photographer magazine, several Professional Photographers of America (PPA) Loan Collection books, the Professional Photographers Society of New York State (PPSNYS) Journals, and In Focus Magazine. In 2004 and 2005, he received the prestigious Kodak Gallery Award for his digital images at the PPSNYS annual conference. He was president of the Professional Photographers Society of New York State in 1999, the same year he earned his Master of Photography Degree from PPA.

Bogdan is also a past president of the Buffalo-Niagara Professional Photographers. He has a Masters Degree in Art Education, and has taught photography at the high school as well as the college level. Bogdan and his wife Janice have run a photographic portrait studio located in Buffalo, NY for the past 24 years. They have also given programs and taught Photoshop techniques over the past eight years, including participating in PPA Super Mondays and the PPSNYS workshop at Hobart College.