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Carole Kropscot, FPSA
I joined PSA in 1977 when I heard about it at the St. Louis Camera Club (Missouri). Now I live in a suburb of Kansas City, Kansas. In the intervening years I belonged to camera clubs in Philadelphia and Dallas. I love scenic, travel, and flower photography. I started using Photoshop when it was version 4. Now I have an Adobe subscription to Photoshop and Lightroom. I turned my interest in computerized photography into a home business where I restore my customers' old photos, digitize their prints and slides, and create video photo slideshows using my customers' own photos and music to tell stories to show at an event for anniversary, birthday, graduation, retirement, funeral, etc. I use Photodex ProShow Producer. My website is www.creativephotoservices.com. I use Epson scanners and printers. My favorite camera is my trusty Powershot SX50 with a super zoom of 24-1200mm. I also use a Canon Rebel T5i and a Sony 6000. In addition, I usually add a few shots with my iPhone's camera to give me a variety in the looks of my subject matter. I like to "work the subject" and take as many views as possible.
Melissa Cramer Sonnen
Melissa still owns her 1972 Minolta camera that started a life journey. She has been through the darkroom, film, slide, digital and finally mirrorless phases of photography, and is still amazed by what can be done with a camera. She joined PSA in 1978, which has continuously improved her photography. She is an active competitor, teacher, judge, presenter and worker for many photo clubs. In retirement, she decided to give much of her time to PSA to thank the Society for all that PSA has given to her. She is currently the Gulf Region Membership Director, Assistant Editor of the PSA Journal, and PSA Who's Who in Photography Chairman. She is also Competition Chairman and founder of National Park Photography Club in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and a member of the Hot Springs Village Camera Club, the Photographic Society of NW Arkansas, the Huntsville Photographic Society (Alabama) and the Texas Professional Photographers Association.
Connie Reinhart
In 1965 our little B&W TV broke. To pass the time needed to deliver a new TV, we went to a local discount store, bought a color developing kit and processed our first B&W roll of film. Our new TV was 2 years old before we ever watched it.
The first remodeling in our new home was making a dark room. So B&W is my first love. We joined the Palmerton Camera Club in 1969 and have been active in it ever since.
We like nature, travel, portraits, macro, just about any subject. (We're not crazy about fast-flying eagles.)
We work with the local historical society copying old photos and documents or taking pictures of current events for future historians. We have mentored Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in
photography.
For several years we have been responsible for the tabletop set ups at the Berks Photographic Conference.
I use a Canon 5D Mark II with a Tamron 28-300 zoom. We enjoy making slide shows using ProShow Gold. I use PhotoShop CS6 for editing, and NIK filters and Topaz are my go-to
tools.
Nancy Armstrong
My love for photography has many roots. A father who loved both the art and the process. One of my earliest memories is watching him develop and print film photos in a small jerry-rigged darkroom in our basement. The Life magazines that I poured through, looking at the photos when I was very young, and reading the stories they illustrated when I was old enough to read. The classic movies I watched on Saturday afternoons and late at night. I got serious about my own photography relatively late in life, but the early influences are all evident in my work.
I live in a Kansas suburb of Kansas City, and shoot a variety of subjects. I particularly love the architecture you find in older areas of Kansas City (and other old cities in general) as well as the old buildings in small Kansas and Missouri towns. I shoot several different cameras, including some that are film, but my favorites are a Sony and a fixed-lens Fuji.
Ally Green
I developed my interest in photography really in the last few years and love to shoot nature and landscapes mainly although i am lucky that we travel often (i am a travel specialist with a focus on Africa) so am exposed to great cultures and opportunities. Henri Cartier Bresson is a great mentor and love to "be in the moment" when i am out shooting. We are lucky to live in Colorado also in the summer months and part of the winter where i have a great teacher who has been a great inspiration to me to get me to the level i am today. I am British but have lived in the States for 10 years now. My husband is American. I have a Canon 7D Mark II which is great and a Canon 100-400mm lens for wildlife and my every day lens which i love is the Canon 24mm- 105mm. I am a member of 2 photo Clubs, one in Denver and one in Vail which i submit images for competitions.