RICK SAMMON has published 27 books, his latest: Idea to Image, Rick Sammon’s Travel and Nature Photography, Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Digital Photography and Flying Flowers – the Beauty of the Butterfly. He is host of the Digital Photography Workshop on the DIY network and guest host of the Canon Photo Safari on the Outdoor Life Network. Rick writes for PCPhoto, Outdoor Photographer, Shutterbug and Layers magazine and has produced interactive DVDs for Photoshop Elements, CS and CS2 users. Sammon is a Canon Explorer of Light and author of the Canon Digital Rebel XT lessons on the Canon Digital Learning Center.
MARC SEROTA is a contract photographer with Getty Images in Boca Raton, Florida. Serota has been in photojournalism since 1986 covering world championship events and major news stories that include the Olympics, Super Bowl and the World Series as well as Presidential debates, Campaigns and elections, the Elian Gonzalez sage, Taliban Prisoneers at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and major disasters and hurricanes including Katrina. Serota currently shoots stylized portraits for several clients that include Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, NASCAR, the LPGA, the New York Mets and MLB.
DAWN SHEGGEBY is the Senior Vice President, Editorial, EpiCom Media. She has led more than a dozen large-scale illustrated book projects, coordinating the work of hundreds of distinguished photo-journalists, writers and artists. Her most recent projects were Day in the Life books on Africa and the United States Armed Forces. Sheggeby is Co-creator of A Day in the Life of the American Woman.
CHARLES STAINBACK is the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Previously he was the Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Professor of Liberal Studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The Tang Museum, opened in 2000, quickly came to national prominence for its innovative programming. He also served as Director of Exhibitions for the International Center of Photography in N.Y., curating a number of critically successful exhibitions. Over the last two decades Stainback had published several books in conjunction with exhibitions he has organized.
DIETER STEINER founded Galerie Contempo in St Augustine, Florida, after a 25-year career with STERN Magazine, as its executive picture editor, Moscow correspondent, and New York bureau chief. Previously he had worked for International News Photos, United Press International, Bunte and Geo. He is a former board member of World Press Photo USA, and the W Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Advisory Board. Dieter is a life member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
BRUCE TALAMON has been a contributing photographer to the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Premiere Magazine, People, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Ebony and Jet Magazines. As a contract photographer for Time Magazine, he chronicled the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns, covering Jessie Jackson. He has participated in book projects such as A Day In The Life Of America, Songs Of My People, and Committed To The Image: Contemporary Black Photographers. He is the author and designer of the photographic book, Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer, a photographic memoir of his travels with Bob Marley in celebration of Bob's 50th birthday. Bruce currently works in motion picture film production, creating images for marketing and publicity. His clients include Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, New Line, Universal Pictures and Warner Brothers. He recently completed his first novel, The Last Ride.
EDDIE TAPP is an award-winning photographer, lecturer, consultant and author on digital imaging issues with over 20 years of experience. His clients include Epson, Apple Computer, Dynacolor Graphics and many government agencies. A Canon USA Explorer of Light, he is a member of the NAPP Photoshop Dream Team and Director of the Institute of Visual Arts in Maui, and served as chairman of the Committee on
Digital & Advanced Imaging for PPA. His articles have appeared in The Professional Photographer, Photo Electronic Imaging, Rangefinder magazine, Southern Exposure, Digital Capture and others. He is also the author of Photoshop Workflow Setups, 1st in a series of books Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography.
BRENDA THARP
 © Brenda Tharp
an outdoor and travel photographer for over 20 years, has been published in a wide variety of magazines including Alaska Airlines, Audubon, Nature Conservancy, Northwest Traveler, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Sierra, Sunset, Travel-Holiday and National Geographic Traveler. She wrote and photographed the popular book Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography, and her graphic and colorful images have been used by major advertising agencies, design firms, corporations, and book publishers, including British Gas, Canon, Chronicle, Grey Worldwide, Michelin, National Geographic, National Park Service and Sierra. Her photographs have also been published in major calendars and greeting card lines. She is represented by three stock agencies, and has work in private collections across the country. Brenda was featured in several episodes of Canon's "Photo Safari" television series.
ERIC VALDMAN, an imaging consultant, spent many years as the
Production Manager of the world famous TIME-LIFE Photo Lab. He
supervised the printing and processing of some of the world’s most famous images in the lab’s black & white, color and digital imaging departments. Valdman’s technical and management skills guided his clients, in the TIME Inc magazines and Time Warner multi-media companies, through many tough problems and tight deadlines.
CYNTHIA VAN RODEN currently manages Hallmark’s Creative Photography Collection. Recruited to edit over a million images to identify work to be digitized for Hallmark’s in-house photo collection, she strategizes with Hallmark’s photo studio on shooting for the company’s needs while keeping up-to-date on what can be acquired from the global marketplace. Cynthia has worked in the photography industry for the past 20 years including The Time/Life Picture Collection, SIPA Press, the start ups of Conde Nast Traveler and the centralized photo department for Times Mirror Magazines (Golf, Skiing, Field & Stream, Yachting, etc.). Cynthia also acts as a consultant for individual photographers on their collections, exhibits and portfolios.
LEE VARIS has been a Hollywood photo-illustrator combining photography with digital image manipulation for the last 20 years. He is currently the director of digital services at the Icon, a commercial photo lab in L. A. servicing the advertising and entertainment industries. He is also the president of LADIG
(Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group) a non-profit educational group devoted to advancing the art of digital imaging and supporting the local digital arts community. Lee’s work has been featured on movie posters, video box covers, CD covers, brochures and catalogs and been featured in National Geographic, Newsweek and Fortune as well as trade journals. His latest book is “Skin : The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies” with Sybex.
VINCENT VERSACE is a recipient of the 1998 Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Media Arts & Entertainment and the 2001 Shellenberg Fine Art Award Vincent is host of the Epson Print Academy and among the photographers used by Epson, Lexar, Apple, Roland, Dynalite, Photoflex, Luminos, Kodak, LowePro, and Nikon to beta test their products. His work, and articles on digital photography, has appeared in almost every major photography periodical, and he is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of American History.
ROSS WHITAKER
 © Ross Whitaker
is a New York based photographer who specializes in shooting commissioned photos of children for advertising, catalogs, books, and editorial publications. A few of his present clients include: Lands End, Lord and Taylor, Cheerios, Kool-Aid, Quaker Oats, Nabisco, Beechnut, Gerber, Enfamile, Dannon, Tylenol, Motrin, GE, Fisher Price, Stride Rite, Samsung, The Discovery Channel, and Disney. Ross is also a regular contributor to Parent and Child, Nick Jr., Family Circle, Prevention, Ladies Home Journal, Brides, Baby Talk, and The Parenting Group.
BEN WILLMORE special gift is an uncanny ability to connect with users of every level and mindset; whether it's first-timers taking their first sniff of Photoshop, or razor-sharp nerds and nerdettes who are on the fast track to technical illumination. The common echo that Ben leaves in his wake seems to be Aha! I finally GET Photoshop! His award-winning, best-selling book, Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques is said to be one of the best Photoshop books ever written. He is co-author (with Jack Davis) of bestseller, How to Wow: Photoshop for Photographers, and another bestseller, Up to Speed: Photoshop CS3. His home office is on the main deck of a 40-foot touring bus, which is command central for Ben's ongoing adventures as a Photoshop nomad and digital photographer. While rolling down the road he stays connected through his blog, www.WhereIsBen.com.
SCOTT WISEMAN
 © Scott Wiseman
shoots both editorial and commercial work. His many awards include: A First place in the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Photojournalism Championship, Pictures of the Year, NPPA National Clip Contest, Addy Awards, SND awards and SNE awards. Wiseman was a member of the renowned Palm Beach Post staff in the 1990s. They were honored as one of the country’s elite, winning the esteemed Angus McDougall Award and the Best Use of Pictures in the University of Missouri/NPPA POY contest. His work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek, TIME, US News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, GQ, Parade, Reader’s Digest, People, Southern Living and others.
RICHARD ZAKIA is a retired professor from the Rochester Institute of Technology where he taught photography for 34 years. He has written several books on photography and perception. He is a contributor to the new Focal Encyclopedia of Photography and author of the 3rd edition of Perception and Imaging, Photography--A Way of Seeing
JIM ZUCKERMAN is one of the world’s best-known nature, wildlife, and travel photographers. His work has been sold around the world in commercial, editorial and fine art venues. He is also a respected photo educator; the author of 12 books on a wide range of photographic subjects and leads international photo tours to exotic destinations. In addition to nature and travel, he also shoots children, fashion, electron photomicrography, and is a master at creating conceptual imagery. A contributing editor for Photographic Magazine for 33 years, his images, articles, and features have been published in scores of books and magazines including Time-Life books, the National Geographic Society, Omni Magazine, National Wildlife, and Conde Nast Traveler. His work has been used in advertising and packaging design, calendars, posters, greeting cards, corporate brochures and recently a Jim Zuckerman line of jig saw puzzles.
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