Member Bios
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Brad Becker
I got started photography over 40 years ago when my father lent me his Nikon F. Shortly thereafter my father built a darkroom and I had a lot of fun learning how to make my own black and white prints. I continued to enjoy photography for years but my passion for photography took off when a friend of mine introduced me to photoshop in the early 90s. In those days it was very expensive digitizing my kodachromes. I spent years manipulating the same couple dozen images until digital cameras came on the scene. Life has been very busy with work and kids but I am now feeling the desire to express my creative energies thru photoshop and am looking forward to sharing my passion with likeminded individuals.
Hazel Price, QPSA
I live in a beautiful area of Wales called the Brecon Beacons and have been here for 45 years.
I retired from teaching and became interested in photography about 10 years ago. I have travelled a lot with my husband and have lived in the UAE for two years. We have family in Perth Australia and up until the pandemic have visited them there every year for several weeks for about the last 16 years. Whist there we have visited various parts of Australia and also Tasmania.
I began by being mainly interested in Landscape Photography and have been on several week long group workshops including Tuscany in Italy. I was introduced to the more creative approach on one of these trips by a photographer called Valda Bailey and have been moving in that direction more recently working on existing images to create a change in interpretation of the image. I have also been working on adding textures, ICM and multiple exposures. I have been a member of Hay Camera Club for about 5 years and enjoy entering their competitions but have only entered a few Salons in the past 2 or 3 years.
I am looking forward very much to sharing images and ideas with the rest of the group.
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.
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.
Tom Kredo, EPSA, GPSA
I live in Rochester NY with my wife and Abu our cat. I grew up in Detroit and moved to Rochester for a better job. I am retired from the computer industry and photography is now my main hobby. We like to travel to at least one interesting location a year, however COVID has put a hold on traveling for now.
I started shooting Black and White when I was in college and developed my own film and prints in the school darkroom. I couldn't afford color printing and it was more difficult to hand process due to the precise temperature requirements. I always had an enlarger in my basement until digital cameras were affordable. I'm glad to be rid of the chemicals.
I'm basically self taught with a few art and photography classes sprinkled into my learning. Every year, I seem to treat my photos with more abstraction. Post processing in Lightroom, NIK and Photoshop are essential tools into how I create an image. Only in the last six months or so have I tried to create composite fantasy images. I'm loving it, and would like to continue to improve. COVID isolation forced me to look at other aspects of image making.
I belong to the Science Museum Camera Club and like to compete in local photo competitions. I am also responsible for selecting club images for the club PSA contests.
I use Nikon and Fuji cameras in APC, FF, and Medium formats.
You can see my work on: 500px
Nadia Trevan
I live on a beautiful island called Tasmania, a state of Australia, situated on the Tasman Sea.
Some of our famous exports are the Looney cartoon character "Tasmanian Devil" and of
course Errol Flynn.
Although I took family photos with my Nikkormat film camera, I never really took
photography seriously.
On our first trip overseas, I bought a canon point and shoot and was hooked from that
moment. That was 2009. Not long after I bought my entry level DSLR canon camera. My
progression has led me to the challenges of trying different genres of photography.
I enjoy being part of a camera club and that personal contact with like-minded people who
share an interest in photography. I have taken on many roles on the committee including
Secretary and President. I’m currently the President of the Tasmanian Photographic
Federation, a peak body with affiliated camera clubs.
In 2016, I came across Brooke Shaden photography and was inspired by her creative work
and so this led me to try compositing. I enjoy the creative process and always looking at
ways of telling some sort of a story; one that you would not normally be able to do with a
single photo. The story part of my composites is what motivates me to take images that can
be used to capture a person’s imagination.
Robin Mellor
I live in North Devon, in the southwest of England. I am retired and enjoy gardening, writing, walking - and, of course, photography.
I become hooked on photography in college when someone showed me how to develop and print black and white photographs. My first camera was a Yashicamat 6x6 and, all these years later, my preference is still for monochrome and the square format - but I do shoot colour as well. The Internet has revolutionised sharing photos and entering exhibitions, but I still like to make prints and for this I use an Epson SC P600 printer.
I use a Nikon D800 with a variety of lenses, and a small Nikon A; increasingly, I also shoot using an iPhone 15 Pro.
For processing, when I moved from the darkroom, I initially used Photoshop and Lightroom but have become dissatisfied with their subscription model so switched to Affinity Photo 2 (one off payment) which is excellent.
I enjoy photographing most subjects, but not sport or natural history, and look forward to seeing your pictures and sharing some of mine with you.