Member Bios
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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, old Canon Powershot SX50 with a super zoom of 24-1200mm. My next favorite camera is my iPhone plus various apps! I also use a Canon Rebel T5i and a Sony 6000. I like to "work the subject" and take as many views as possible. I love to watch youtube and Adobe videos on photography.
Bunny Laden
I joined PSA in January 2019 retiring from full-time work. I set a goal to learn the craft of photography in earnest. Prior to that time, I used a prosumer zoom camera and primarily did travel photography. My philosophy was to make the best possible picture in-camera, no post-processing except color correction.
COVID-19 put a damper on travel photography but it caused me to focus on improving my knowledge of post-processing tools, macro/close-up photography, and anything I could photograph indoors or on my immediate property. I completed the PSA History of Photography, Image Analysis, and Still Life courses.
I travel a lot, so most of my current photographic topics are about the places I go to. I am always looking for advice on how to improve my photography. Digital Dialogues are wonderful for that.
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.
Lisa Salisbury Hackley
I first joined PSA in the 1990's when I was a member and officer of the Manassas Warrenton Camera Club in Virginia. After a long hiatus, I rejoined PSA this year. Currently, I am the President of the Syracuse Camera Club (established in 1886 and one of the oldest photography organizations in America) and an active photographer in my local community. A lifetime Nikon user, I shoot with a Nikon D850 and D810 and a variety of Tamron and Nikkor lenses. I live in Cazenovia, New York - a small town outside of Syracuse in Central New York.
My interest in photography started with my mom who was an avid photographer and had an in-home darkroom when I was younger. Photography became a passion and a way to share life's moments and stories with family, friends, and my son's classmates, teammates and their parents.
My photography interests cover a wide range of genres - including nature, sports, candid portraiture, animal, abstract, lifestyle, street, and event photography.
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.
Jarrod Cole
As a PSA member since April 2025, I'm absolutely thrilled to connect with fellow photography enthusiasts! Hailing from the beautiful Tacoma area in Washington, I'm passionate about capturing the world through my diverse collection of cameras - from Pentax, Nikon, and Canon DSLRs to classic Mamiya and Minolta film bodies. Lightroom is my editing playground, and my lens loves everything from striking portraits to captivating wildlife, and just about everything in between. I'm a dedicated learner, constantly seeking new techniques and perspectives through online resources and my local photography group. While I'm still chasing that ultimate "aha!" moment in my photographic journey, I'm eager to collaborate and grow together within the PSA community!
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.