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Dr V G Mohanan Nair, APSA, QPSA
I belong to Trivandrum, Kerala state ("God's Own Country"), the southern part of India. Did my post-graduation from Kerala University and Doctorate from Kurukshetra University. I was working as a Chief Scientist at the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvanathapuram, till April 2016. Photography, travel and listening to music are my hobbies
Even though I was attracted towards photography from childhood, I purchased my first camera, an Agfa-Isolly-II (120mm fixed focus) from my first salary in 1980. After 13 years, in 1993 I got a professional camera Pentax K1000. Two more digital cameras and one 3D camera were added to my small collection subsequently. In May 2022, I got a new Canon R5 camera with RF 5.2mm f/2.8L Dual Fisheye lens.
The interest in photography as an art started after my visit to XXIII All India Salon of Photography by the Lucknow Camera Club. I joined this club to learn more about photography and started participating in local as well as national salons. I took PSA membership in 2003. I do not have much dark room experience as my photographs are developed and printed at professional studios. Digital images are processed by self using Photoshop (Ver. 6 & CS). From 2012, I am mainly concentrating on 3D photography. Received the Associate of PSA (APSA) in 2016. I consider myself as a student of photography as well as Photoshop and look forward to learning these from other experienced members of PSA.
Steve Wessing
I come from a long line of amateur and professional photographers, starting with my grandfather who participated in salons of the Amsterdamsche Amateur Fotografen Vereeniging in the 1940s and was one of the first to to teach photography in Indonesia. I got my first camera at age 5 and have been hooked ever since. I am active in abstract and travel photography, but my greatest interest is stereoscopic photography.
I inherited my uncle's stereo realist in my teen years, and still take mostly stereo images today. In the intervening years, my photos have been used as album cover art, and published in various magazines and books including a short time as house photographer for the Rock 'n Roll Probe.
I am currently on the board of directors of the Cascade Stereoscopic Club, and a member of the National Stereoscopic Association.
Signe Emmerich, HonPSA, EPSA
I live in East Troy, Wisconsin, and became involved with PSA after the younger of our two children went to college in 2002. This is also when photography became a serious interest for me in addition to traveling, quilting, and delving into the family genealogy.
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<br />My current cameras are a Fujifilm W3, Nikon D870, and a Sony 6000 mirrorless. I learned about the Fujifilm W3 camera at the 2009 PSA Conference and purchased one immediately after I got home. It wasn't until three years later, however, that I processed my images with Stereophoto Maker and entered into exhibitions. I try to enter as many 3D exhibitions as I can as a way to challenge myself since I don't have the opportunity to belong to a 3D camera club. I earned my first 3D Star in 2014.
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<br />As with my 2D photography, I enjoy taking photographs in almost all genres and with a variety of subjects. The third dimension adds a new "consideration" element to photographing a subject or scene and can really make the image "pop" ... I just love it.
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Ken Kovar
I reside in northern Illinois, approximately 90 miles west of Chicago. In the 1980s, my fascination with 3D memorabilia, including Viewmasters and reels, stereo cards, and books and magazines about 3D, began. During a vacation in California in the 1990s, I purchased a Stereo Realist Camera, expanding my hobby to capturing stereoscopic photos.
My wife and I attended a couple of Chicago Stereo Camera Club Lighthouse Exhibitions in 1995 and 1996, where I was astounded by the exceptional quality of the stereo photos. In 1998, my son and I attended our first NSA convention in Richmond, Virginia, reveling in the trade show, stereo theater, exhibits, and workshops. Over the next 15 years, I frequented many NSA conventions, accompanied by either my son or my wife.
During this period, I added a Viewmaster Personal Camera and a Nimslo Camera to my growing "3D Clutter Collection". In 2010, I embraced the digital era by acquiring a Fuji W1 Camera, followed by a Fuji W3 Camera, bidding farewell to film forever. Mostly, I captured vacation memories, viewing them on a 3D monitor and 3D TV.
Currently, my 3D cameras are a Fuji W3, QooCam EGO, Lume Pad 1, and an iPhone 13 mini (cha-cha). I joined PSA to learn more about photography tricks and techniques and access PSA resources. Additionally, Bob Curtis and I are working on the Chicago Lighthouse Exhibition 2024 and are getting ready to submit our Conditions of Entry to the PSA for approval. All 3D photographers should enter their best images!
Shunmuga Sundaram
I'm from India (the southern part) and work as a software engineer by profession. I started my photography journey during Covid time. Recently I've attended a 3D workshop that was conducted by V.G. Mohan Nair Sir, and I was very curious to know all the techniques and planned to spend more time on 3D photography.
I'm open and would like to learn more from the experts here
Satish Hanumantharao
I am H.Satish (Satish Hanumantharao) from Bangalore, India. I have been in the field of Art of Photography since 1981 and have gained many distinctions from different photographic bodies of the world. some of them are MFIAP, MICS, ARPS, PPSA, cMoL, GPA.PESGSPC,
Hon.FICS, Hon.CPE, Hon. PESGSPC, Hon.YPS, Hon. ECPA;Hon.FLAS, Hon.FWPAI, Hon.FSAP, Hon.PSP, Patron LMG. Hon.GMTPAS, Hon.ADCC ,Hon.EUSPA, Hon.FTPAS,
I have been travelling in the past 44 years and am also conducting lot of workshops for wild lifers and travel photographers.
I have been a PSA member for the past 5 years. I am actively participating in Salons all over the world and have been a judge in more than 100 salons. Though I am known in the field as a Wildlife photographer, I love to take all kinds of photography. And 3D imaging is my new venture, under the able tutorship of Dr.Mohanan Nair. A very interesting field to discover and learn the new technics. I am looking forward to encouragement from all of you.
Drew Stevens
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Andrew Parke
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