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Dick Burr

Dick Burr

My name is Dick Burr. I have been interested in photography for well over 50 years. Back in the early days I started out with Kodak cameras, the Brownie and the Instamatic. In fact, while I was in the Army, I carried an Instamatic with me on missions in the rice paddies and jungles of Vietnam. While in the service I purchased a Yashika Electro X that I carried around with me in Europe. After my time in the service I graduated to my first SLR camera, a Chinon. I am now shooting Canon T4i and Nikon D810. Recently, within the last 3 years I have become interested in aerial photography. I have a DJI Phantom 3 Professional drone that shoots 4K video and 12 MP stills.

I am retired from General Electric Medical after 36 years of service with them, and enjoying retirement with family and photography.

You can see my work on: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dickburr/

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Helen Jiang

Helen Jiang

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Lillian Yang

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Peter Shi

Peter Shi

My interest to photography emerged as early as my teenager years, I have still remembered the excitements when films were developed into negative images in the dark room, then eventually turned to clear prints under the red light. In those days photos were so precious to common people, because you had to wait to finish shooting a whole roll of the film before developing it in the darkroom. The waiting time sometimes took a couple of months!

Even though I had long interest on photo shooting, my serious effort towards photography started in 2014 when I got my first DSLR as a birthday gift. Since then, I put my energy and passion on it. I found that photography brought me so much joy and happiness! I shoot both photos and videos. And learned how to use Adobe Lr, Ps, Pr and Ae… It’s a good preparation for my retirement life years later, and I’m looking forward to it. Does this hobby someday become my another occupation? I dream it!




Syed Shakhawat Kamal, QPSA

Syed Shakhawat Kamal, QPSA

Syed Shakhawat Kamal is the President of Phoenix Photographic Society, a renowned photographic society in Bangladesh. He started photography in the early years of his college days. He began with a Yashica MF-2 film camera back in the late eighties. He is now shooting on digital platform. With his camera, vision & passion for photography takes him places, .

He does all sorts of photography, whenever time and opportunity permits. Not only an Individual PSA member, he is also an ILFIAP member. He is now looking after the responsibility as, Country membership Director (CMD) of PSA, Country Liaison Officer (LO) of PSA to Bangladesh. Besides he is also looking after as "Exhibition Standard Director (ESD) for Region 4 of PSA.

With his leadership along with his Team - "Phoenix Photographic Society" is striving to make a significant mark to improve photography in Bangladesh. He is eager to learn and improve his photography skills every day. He sincerely believes, "We can Change our society by Photography" and keeps striving to achieve his belief.