Craig M. Tanner
E-Mail: craig@craigtannercreative.com
Website: www.craigtannercreative.com
Blog: www.craigtannercreative.com/lightdiary
Craig M. Tanner began photographing landscapes as a way to share his lifelong passion for wilderness places. Craig's photographs have appeared in numerous national and regional publications including Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Southern Living, and Atlanta Magazine. Since 1992, Craig's editorial work has been exclusively featured in over twenty-five calendars and in the book Georgia, published by Graphic Arts Center Publishers.
Craig also produces stock and assignment photography for advertising and his clients include Eastman Kodak, Delta, Georgia Tourism, and the Jack Nicklaus Development Corporation.
In addition to his editorial and advertising photography, Craig's fine art landscapes are widely collected and exhibited and can be found in the corporate collections of The Coca Cola Company, Cox Communications, The Home Depot, Southern Company, and UPS.
One of Craig's most ardent passions is teaching. Over the last ten years Craig has become widely acclaimed as a dynamic teacher and speaker. In addition to leading his own workshops Craig teaches for a variety of arts and photography schools across the country.
Mark S. Johnson
E-Mail: mark@msjphotography.com
Website: www.msjphotography.com
Mark S. Johnson is a Boulder, Colorado based Photoshop instructor, photographer, and graphic designer. Sharing his enthusiasm for Photoshop is his greatest passion, and has been for well over a decade. Mark's spirited, patient, hands-on approach to teaching fosters an environment of explosive creativity.
Mark serves on the faculty of The Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, Montana where he teaches several inspiring Photoshop courses. His clients include Photo Craft Labs in Boulder, Colorado, Fox Studios in Denver, Colorado, Alpinist magazine in Jackson, Wyoming, Sterling-Rice Group in Boulder, Colorado, Color Genesis and Megabytes Digital labs in Atlanta, Georgia, and hundreds of renowned artists, designers, and photographers.
Mark's photographic and digital work is published by Audubon, Portal Publications, Portfolio Publications, Blue Sky Publishing, Jones and Bartlett, Prentice Hall, Whispering River, DJ Miller Music Distributors, Cactus Marketing Communications, Inspiration Unlimited, New Hope Natural Media, and Photo Techniques magazine. He is the first prize winner in the Landscape Category of Nature's Best International Photography Competition.
Matthew S. Gibson
E-Mail: msg@matthewgibson.com
Website: www.matthewgibon.com
Matthew S. Gibson is coalescing his passions for photography, teaching, and writing. Matt's background is in project management and he has recently left a successful career in the corporate world to pursue his creative passions.
As a Delaware native, the state holds a special place in his heart. He is working on numerous Delaware photographic projects, including a collection of limited edition fine art prints. When he is not photographing in Delaware or on assignment, you will likely find Matt exploring the National Park System or other areas of America's great outdoors.
One of Matt's devotions is teaching. He truly enjoys working with photographers of all levels and believes that the learning process never ends. One of his goals with The Radiant Vista is to share his growth experiences during his career transition. As an often-early adopter of new technologies, Matt would like to use new ways of communicating to help revolutionize creative learning.
In addition to his photography and teaching, Matt also has numerous writing projects underway, including a book about corporate to creative job transitioning.
Nancy Rotenberg
E-Mail: nancyrotenberg@aol.com
Website: www.naturaltapestries.com
Nancy Rotenberg is a freelance photographer, writer, and educator. Her images and editorial have appeared in magazines such as Adirondack Life, Birds & Blooms, Canadian Camera, Country Gardens, National Geographic, Nature's Best, Peterson's Photographic and Outdoor Photographer. Nancy's work has also been used for Hallmark, Red Oak, Reiman Publications, Renaissance and Sunrise Greeting Cards; as well as in calendars such as Inner Reflections, Nikon, Mitsubishi, Smith-Southwestern, Teldon and Willow Creek.
Nancy is the author of three books: How To Photograph Close-ups In Nature, Capturing Nature's Intimate Landscapes and her latest book, Photography and The Creative Life.
Nancy has been leading photography workshops and teaching for twelve years. Her goal as instructor is to encourage other photographers to create visual statements that go beyond documentation, to photograph intimately and with feeling. Nancy brings to her workshops and writings, creative vision and enthusiasm for the natural world and a passion for experiencing life with joy, heart and soul.
Marti Jeffers
E-Mail: marti@martijeffers.com
Website: www.martijeffers.com
Marti Jeffers is an Atlanta, Georgia based photographer whose love and study of photography spans more than 20 years. After leaving a long career as a software engineer in 2006, Marti transformed her one-time hobby into Marti Jeffers Photography, Inc., specializing in portrait and fine art photography.
Marti's fine art prints are shown in various venues in the Atlanta area, have won several awards in juried shows, and are collected in the southeastern states.
One of Marti's passions is teaching, having taught technical classes during her career as a software engineer. She continues this passion by teaching the art of photography to others, working with each individual to inspire and educate. In addition to the technical aspects, Marti's objective is to encourage photographers to capture the spirit and energy of a place or person in photographs.
In 2007, she had the pleasure of teaching with The Radiant Vista and with Craig Tanner's Next Step Workshops.
Susan Fleck
E-Mail: susan@fleckphoto.com
Website: www.fleckphoto.com
Susan Fleck is a former professor of photography and design and now makes her living photographing for architects, interior designers, and builders.
As an educator, Susan was known for her enthusiasm for teaching and for putting students of all skill levels at ease. In addition to teaching in the classroom, she led photo tours to the Arizona, New Mexico, Belize, and Norway.
After 15 years as an award-winning professor, she decided she needed to be able to photograph every day so she left teaching to begin Susan Fleck Photography. Her photography has been honored by architectural organizations and her landscape photography is in national and international collections of galleries, universities and corporations including most recently, Starbuck. In 2005 she was awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship by the Arts Council of Indianapolis. In 2007 her photographs were selected by the Arts Council as awards for corporate and private supporters of the arts.
Bryan Allen
E-Mail: bryanallenphoto@mac.com
Website: www.bryanallenphoto.com
Bryan Allen is a Knoxville, TN based photographer with over 30 years of experience behind the lens. Bryan began his love affair with the camera at age 7 and has been making images ever since. Bryan's creative passion has always been photographing people. He is a technically talented photographer with a natural eye for color, line, composition, and moment, who can also quickly connect with people, setting them at ease and allowing authentic images to emerge. Bryan, who is also an IT executive for a major media company, possesses a unique mix of technical/computer expertise, years of photographic experience, coaching and leadership skills, and a high energy personality. These attributes all work in concert and are fully leveraged in his dynamic teaching style.
A QuickTime video of Bryan Allen's people work can be downloaded here: People Portfolio (23MB)