Member Bios
Tyrah Lawson
My name is Tyrah and I live in Phoenix, AZ. I am an amateur photographer at the beginning of my photography journey. The majority of my photographs come from the things that I see while traveling on my motorcycle. This can mean lots of landscapes, which I love, it it also allows me to seek out new places and adventures so you never know what I am going to find interesting. I joined PSA as a way to expand my photography education and improve my skills.
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Craig Callan
Craig Callan
Craig graduated from Farmingdale State University with a degree in Photo Technology in 1973.
From '73 to '78, he was a Photographic Quality Control Supervisor for Berkey Photo on the Lower East side of Manhattan. Among other responsibilities, he managed technical aspects of Kodachrome processing for slides and movie film.
In 1978, he started working for Colenta America Corporation, manufacturer of photo processing equipment. The company built both custom designed processors for clients such as National Geographic, Time/Life, Eastman Kodak, NASA, and the White House Photo Lab, as well as the more popular mini-labs. He specialized in solving complex photographic problems and in training operators to produce high quality images.
As part of Colenta's extensive export market he installed labs and trained operators in the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, and Jordan. He also designed factories and trained staff to assemble Colenta processors in Mexico and China.
As part of Colenta's growing cooperation with China, Craig was promoted to Communications Director in 1985. In order to surmount language difficulties, he used the desktop publishing software introduced for the Mac to create graphically centered manuals. As part of this, he used Digital Darkroom, the first retouching software available for the Mac. When Photoshop 1.0 was introduced in 1990, Craig was an eager early adopter.
When Craig moved to Washington, D.C. in 1991, he parlayed his desktop publishing and photography experience into a series of jobs with increasing responsibilities in the Graphic Arts Industry. One of the best was as a Mac Retoucher for Lanman Progressive, a high end "trade shop" which specialized in preparing color pages for major magazines and books. Once again, Nat Geo was one of his clients, and they supplied one of the most memorable instructions ever: "Sharpen Lion's Teeth"
In November 1999, Craig was the Prepress Manager for a division of the Washington Post that printed 40 community newspapers, when he was asked to assume the role of Director of Technology and oversee the company's Y2K response. He remained in that position for the next five years, before taking a buyout and working as the Network Manager for a software company until retiring in 2019.
He maintains his interest in photography and Photoshop. He says "Teaching photographers about Photoshop is like teaching five year olds about ice cream. It's messy at first, but they soon get the hang of it."
Craig is looking forward to working on his personal development goals during retirement
• To improve his photography and Photoshop skills.
• To become a cantankerous old coot.
You can see my work on: CraigCallan.com
Mark Grech
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Josh Lohff
I started putting a concerted effort into capturing life around me in 2017, when I realized my kids were growing up entirely too quickly. Since then, I pretty much haven't stopped taking pictures - especially since starting my Project 365 in November of that year, which I'm now on year 5 of and still haven't missed a day!
As I have to imagine for most folks that take pictures every day, it's tough to be overly picky about your subject matter, and accordingly, I shoot most everything. A lot of around-the-house/town photography, candid family and pet images, remote flash experimentation, in-camera double exposures, and the occasional landscape excursion to mix things up &/or get out with friends.
I've joined PSA to improve my photography. I hope to grow from the feedback that I receive and provide through the monthly reviews and look forward to getting to know the folks I'm grouped with.
You can see my work on: My Project 365
David Kepley
David's father was in the military, so he was raised in many different places, but went to high school on the north New Jersey shore. He went to college at Gettysburg College and graduate school at the University of Maryland. While working at the US Forest Service over 40 years ago, he was inspired by one of his colleagues to take up photography. A trip in which he visited some of the great parks in the American west cemented his lifelong love of trying to capture the beauty and majesty of the natural world. After his retirement, David has taken a number of different classes and workshops to perfect his craft. He is currently first vice president of the Vienna Photographic Society. His works have been juried into Nature Visions Photo Expo for the past four years, as well as the Joseph Miller Abstract Photography Exhibit. His work has also won many awards at his photo club. A passionate devotee of our national parks, during the 2016 centennial year David and his wife visited 10 different parks, capturing thousands of images of them! He hopes that the sense of awe and majesty that he sees in the natural world will inspire you as well.
Alan Kiecker, QPSA
Al first picked up a camera fifty years ago and has not put it down since. Although most anything that happens to be in front of his camera may likely become a subject of his photos, he particularly enjoys sports and action photography, night photography of the city lights, and scenics of all sorts. Al is active with the Minnesota Valley Photo Club and regularly submits his photos to their monthly salons and displays his work in various venues supported by the club.
Samples of his work may be found on his website: http://www.OurVisualPointOfView.com/
Peggy Hebert
Hi, my name is Peggy Hebert and I live in Lafayette,Louisiana. I love to take photos of old barns, old churches, buildings , butterflies and flowers. I always thought of photography as a great hobby. I bought my first camera in 2010 and I want to learn about photography and to improve my photos. I am excited to join PSA and learn.