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Ian Ledgard, GMPSA/b, EFIAP/p, AWPF, GPU-Cr5

Ian Ledgard, GMPSA/b, EFIAP/p, AWPF, GPU-Cr5

I am a retired Chartered Forester having spent my career mainly with a private company in the UK. I live close to the small market town of Llandeilo in South West Wales a scenic area with strong historic connections.

My interest in photography was stimulated by my father who taught me how to develop and print shots taken on a Box Brownie in a makeshift darkroom in our home. Through the years I have progressed through black and white, colour transparency, E6 home processing and Cibachrome printing. I took up digital in 1999 scanning prints and negatives for a couple of years before taking the plunge into digital capture. All my work has been in Photoshop and I print using Epson printers.

I have always been more interested in producing images than in the latest piece of kit and so all my equipment is relatively modest. I firmly believe in taking pictures which I enjoy; if they are also appreciated by others then that is a great bonus. I am an Associate of the Welsh Photographic Federation (AWPF). I joined PSA in 2005 and gained MPSA in 2013 and GMPSA in 2018. I hold the Excellence award from FIAP and have just gained it's Platinum level(EFIAP/p). I have also gained a five crown award from Global Photographic Union (GPU-Cr5).
I regularly judge club and inter club competitions throughout South Wales and atInternational level have judged in Wales, England, India and Ireland.




Gunter Haibach

Gunter Haibach

I am married and live with my wife Avril in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada - a beautiful wine region of Ontario.
After 15 years of striving to produce "WOW" images, the "Beat Goes On" - still striving, learning, and doing. Thanks to local camera clubs, mentors, PSA for helping me on this journey.
Have no favourite subjects, but lean towards the creative and non-traditional aspects of artful images. My favourite photographic outing is in local forests - while not necessarily producing "WOW" pictures, more importantly, it feeds my soul.
My equipment includes an Olympus Mirror-Less camera, 2 Zoom lenses and a Macro lens. I do my post-processing with P.S. Elements and NIK and Topaz plug-in's.
My other hobbies include reading and sports (watching!). Up until recently I was also a bit of a political junkie, however, for sanity reasons I've weaned myself off it. I have already apologized to my grandchildren for the world we're leaving them.
Looking forward to participating in the group.




Chan Garrett

Chan Garrett

I am a retired Baptist pastor, now living in DeLand, Florida.
My passion for photography took a great step forward in the early 1980's when I decided to enroll in an adult education course in photography at the Atlanta Center for the Arts. A following course in B&W Darkroom convinced me to build a darkroom in my home, and I was off and running.
I studied Ansel Adams with a passion and spent hours in my darkroom trying to make my prints look like AA. (I have never come close to matching him.)
As I saw retirement approaching, I determined not to retire to a rocking chair on the front porch. I decided to begin my own photography business. Thus, began Chan Garrett Photography. But what type of photography?
I noticed a job listing on a bulletin board as I left a class one evening. A well-established wedding photographer needed an assistant. I applied and worked with him for over a year. Next, I convinced my wife to join me in going out on our own in the Wedding Photography business. We worked together for the next ten years in a modestly successful business, photographing between 25 and 30 weddings a year. We both joined and became active in, The Georgia Professional Photographers Association (GPPA) and The Professional Photographers of America (PPA).
As we aged, and weddings began to take their toll on us, we retired (again) and moved to Florida to be near our children and grandchildren.

My camera collection consists of a Canon T3i (converted to IR with 830 filter), Canon M50 and a Canon RP.




Jim Hagan, MPSA

Jim Hagan, MPSA

I grew up in Chicago and went to nearby Northwestern University where I received an MBA degree in 1963. Most of my working career was in accounting and finance. I joined the PSA around 1965 but with the demands of my occupation and family, I soon dropped out of PSA and took few photos over the next 30 years.

I retired in 1999, moved to Toledo Ohio and joined several local camera clubs. I was amazed at the changes in photography in the last 30 years - digital imaging, automatic focusing, automatic exposure, automatic bracketing, and higher ISO’s. I felt like Rip Van Winkle who slept for 20 years and awoke to a new world.

After being retired for 17 years I had accumulated many photos and after a forty-year hiatus, I rejoined the PSA in 2017. My membership in the PSA has been a wonderful experience. I enjoy entering photos in numerous exhibitions throughout the world where I can share my images as well as see images of fellow photographers from around the world. I also belong to three PSA study groups and enjoy discussing my photos as well as those of others in the groups. Study groups have been an enjoyable learning process.

I am now in my mid 80’s with some physical limitations so travel and photo outings are now more limited. But, entering photos in exhibitions and belonging to study groups has been a wonderful pastime and learning experience.




Joan Field, FPSA

Joan Field, FPSA

Joan Field and her husband, George, lived in New Jersey for 26 years before moving to CA, George's home state, in 1989. They spent four + years in Danville (near San Francisco) and another four years in the Los Angeles (Orange County) area, when in 1997 they returned to Danville.

Joan has been a member of various camera clubs since 1984 when she purchased her first 35 mm camera. The Contra Costa Camera Club is her current affiliation, but she has also been a member of the ACES (Anaheim Camera Enthusiasts Club) in Orange County, CA and the West Essex Camera Club in New Jersey. Joan had been a member of several slide circuits since 1985 and is now administrator of the Digital Imaging Print Circuit #4 and DD circuits #21 and 15. She was the chair for the PSA Newsletter Contest for five years.

She is a generalist in photography. Today her primary interest is in correcting and creating images using Photoshop and printing, her favorite being monochrome.

Her digital camera is the Nikon D750. She uses an iMac 27″, Bridge and Photoshop 2021 nd also has an Intel based PowerBook Pro. Her lenses include the Nikkor 29-300 VR and the Rokinon 14mm wide angle lens, an 80-400 mm Nikkor VR, a Tamron 150 - 600mm lens and a 90 mm Tamron macro lens.

She received her FPSA in OIctober of 2021.