PODAS workshops

Mark Dubovoy

Mark Dubovoy is a well-known photographer, educator and writer. His breathtaking images are a unique combination of impeccable aesthetics, a deep love for nature and flawless technique. Mark is a regular contributor of technical articles for PHOTO Techniques magazine and The Luminous Landscape. He teaches his own workshops and is a guest lecturer at various other workshops around the world. His photographs are included in a number of private collections, as well as in the permanent collections of major Museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Monterey Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Nanao Japan. After decades of using large format film, he made the transition to digital several years ago.

Bill Atkinson

Bill Atkinson was a member of the original Macintosh team at Apple Computer. Atkinson designed much of the initial Macintosh user interface and wrote the original QuickDraw, MacPaint and HyperCard software.A world-famous landscape and nature photographer, Bill has spent more than forty years refining his vision – hiking through forests and deserts; lugging camera gear through rain, mud and snow; seeking out the special light that reveals hidden beauty. Through intimate landscapes and close-up details, Atkinson’s photographs highlight and celebrate the wonders of nature. By developing his skills as a photographer and a fine art printmaker, Atkinson has been able to create expressive and archival photographs that faithfully share his experiences. As a pioneer of digital printing technologies, he teaches workshops in fine-art printmaking and has shared his expertise with over three hundred photographers.

Jeff Schewe

Jeff Schewe is a digital pioneer. An award winning advertising photographer by trade, he has been a long-term alpha/beta tester for Photoshop, Camera Raw and Lightroom, and has been personally involved with their development. He is also a well-known fine art printing guru and is an Epson Stylus Pro member and leader of the Epson Print Academy. Jeff is the co-author of “Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4” as well as co-author, along with Martin Evening, of “Photoshop CS4 For Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop”. He’s a member of the NAPP Photoshop Hall of Fame. Jeff is also a founding partner in PixelGenius, LLC makers of the PhotoKit™ line of plug-ins. Jeff has also been seen in a variety of Luminous Landscape video tutorials along with his on-screen partner, Michael Reichmann, including their Camera To Print and Lightroom 2 tutorials.

Jack Flesher

While he considers himself primarily a “Landscape” photographer, Jack has photographed for commercial and corporate clients, led several photographic workshops, and instructed novice through advanced photographers in a variety of photographic venues.  Jack’s work has been exhibited in galleries from California to New York, and the Bibliothèque Nationale selected one of Jack’s images to be part of a collection they procured on “Images of the American Southwest.” Today he remains passionate in his pursuit of creating photographic art and enjoys photographing most anything from architecture and machinery to people and wildlife.  However, when pressed to choose a favorite photographic subject, Jack replies, “I love photographing the natural landscape.” Jack enjoys sharing his experience and ideas with others, and is co-owner of the GetDPI photography forums. 

Charles Cramer

After spending seven years of college studying classical piano, Charles Cramer visited Yosemite National Park, and soon discovered he wanted out of those tiny practice rooms! Realizing the similarities between interpreting music and interpreting a negative, he soon became enamored with making prints. Thirty years later, he is recognized as a master printmaker in both darkroom-based dye transfer printing, and now in digital processes. Cramer's prints are available internationally through many galleries, and his work has been published by National Geographic Books, Sierra Club, and the Yosemite Association. He has taught digital imaging for the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops, Palm Beach Workshops, Anderson Ranch, and others. He has been profiled in PhotoTechniques, PhotoVision, and View Camera Magazines. He is also included in the book Landscape: The World’s Top Photographers, published in 2005.

Tim Wolcott

Tim Wolcott's passion for photography is in advancing the frontiers of landscape imagery and environmentally-friendly processes. In 1996, Wolcott developed the first green gallery in the world using only pigments and managed forest woods and acid-free mountings technologies. Tim exhibited his work around the world and at many photo conventions. In 1999, Tim opened a gallery in Big Bear Lake, California, which is dedicated to featuring some of the best works in the United States. The Gallery of the American Landscape has and will display some of the best works by renowned artists throughout the world. Tim Wolcott's photographs are included in many numerous private, public, and corporate collections worldwide; including the Guggenheim, Smithsonian, Photokina, Microsoft, Kaiser Permanante, Chevron, and the Nature Conservancy. His photography graces the walls of many world class galleries; Fahey Klein Gallery, Photography West, Vision Gallery, Photocollect, Grubel Gallery, and Gallery of the American Landscape just to name a few.  

James Martin

James Martin is a photographer and writer based in Seattle, Washington. James has criss-crossed the planet to capture images of the wild world, from pristine wilderness to the fringes of human behavior. Jim is also the author of 20 books, including Digital PhotographyOutdoors, Dragons in the Trees, and Extreme Alpinism (with Mark Twight). He recently completed the book Planet Ice, a global survey of ice that elucidates the relationship between climate and ice as well as the action of ice on the landscape. In the course of shooting he hiked to Everest Base Camp, soloed across the Andes, climbed Kilimanjaro and the Mountains of the Moon, visited Greenland twice, and led trips to Antarctica. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, and a host of other periodicals. He has been profiled in Men's Journal, Outdoor Photographer, and on the CBS Evening News. He has led photo tours annually worldwide since 1991.
 

Daniel Bergmann

Daniel Bergmann is Iceland's best-known nature photographer. He has been a professional photographer and writer since 1991 and is a pioneer in leading photography workshops in Iceland. His expertise is his home country and few photographers, if any, know Iceland better.
Daniel's images have appeared in a number of international magazines, including BBC Wildlife, National Geographic Traveler, CNN Traveller, TIME for kids, RSPB's Birds, Birdwatch and Birding World. He has created two books in English on Icelandic nature; Icelandic Wilderness and Skaftafell National Park. Recently he was chosen as the only Icelandic photographer to photograph for the Wild Wonders of Europe project, the greatest photography quest of its kind to be launched in Europe

Alain Briot

Alain Briot approaches photography as a Fine Art. Alain's goal is to express his personal vision of the subject rather than depict reality in a factual manner. Originally from France, Alain first studied painting and drawing at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris, before studying photography.  His painting and drawing studies defined his approach to photography. In addition to his Fine Art work, Alain teaches workshops, writes essays and publishes books and DVD tutorials. Alain is the author of Mastering Landscape Photography and Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity and Personal Style, both published by Rocky Nook.  Alain is also the author of the Mastery Workshops on DVD series. Alain is a columnist for Luminous-landscape.com, outbackphoto.com, Naturephotographers.net and other sites. His writings have been translated in over 15 different languages.

Guy Mancuso

In his 30+ years as a freelancer and Fortune 500 photographer, Guy Mancuso has perfected his innovative techniques with acquired expertise in the advertising, commercial, industrial and corporate markets. Educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Art Institute of Atlanta, he's traveled the world shooting annual reports, advertising, public relations and marketing materials. Guy freely shares his knowledge throughout the discussion threads on the GetDPI photography forums that he is co-owner of, and enjoys helping students master their photographic skills through the GetDPI workshop series that he and Jack Flesher lead together. Guy shoots 100% digital now and works primarily with Phase One medium format digital cameras.

Ken Duncan

Ken Duncan is well known as the pioneer of Limited Edition Photographic Art in Australia. After a visit to New York in the early 1980's, Ken returned home with a dream to have photography widely accepted as an art form in this country. Ken is truly passionate about his craft. Always striving for excellence, he travels extensively throughout the world in search of the stunning panoramic landscapes - or Panographs - for which he is best known. Recognised internationally as a gifted and prolific landscape photographer, Ken still chooses to describe himself as "... an average photographer, with a great God - merely an interpreter of God's creation". The art, he says, is in seeing, capturing and presenting these images to others. And this Ken does with his own unique style and his exceptional ability to capture the very spirit of a place at a given moment in time.

Peter Eastway

Having worked in most areas of professional photography, Peter Eastway's passion is for landscapes. Peter's work is so respected that Lonely Planet chose him to write their international photography guide book on landscape photography. Peter is also a Grand Master of Photography, one of only a handful in the world and earned from a career spanning nearly 30 years. Peter has won many awards for his photography. In 1996 and 1998 he was the AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year. Recently he won the Grand Award for the Commercial Category at the 2005 WPPI Exhibition in Las Vegas. His limited edition prints are exhibited in selected galleries around Australia and are held by private collectors in England, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and the USA.

Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton is a noted fine art and media photographer whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide.  He is the author/photographer of eight photographic titles including most recently, Terra Incognita: Photographs of America’s Third Coast.  Sexton’s work is included in the Historic New Orleans Collection, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and numerous private collections. His multidisciplinary studio is based in New Orleans. Sexton teaches digital photography at New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts and through privately sponsored workshops. He has contributed technical essays on photography to The Luminous Landscape web site and to View Camera magazine.

Claus Mølgaard

Claus Mølgaard has more than 12 years of experience within the fields of digital camera technology and image processing. Currently he holds the position as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President R&D at Phase One.Prior to this he served as an assistant teacher at the Technical University of Denmark, where he also received his degree in Electrical Engineering. Over the years he has served as an external teacher and guest speaker at the Technical University; teaching digital electronics. Claus has written books and articles about VHDL and Digital Camera technology. He is the inventor of patented and patent pending technologies within the fields of digital camera systems and data compression.