Member Bios
Deborah Albert
A retired pediatric surgeon and lifelong lover of wildlife, Deborah Albert has turned her focus from healing children to exploring the natural world. Driven by a deep curiosity, passion, and respect for the creatures that share our planet, she spends as much time as possible traveling to wild places across the globe. From icy Antarctic shores to African savannas and beyond, Deborah seeks to capture the spirit of life in its many forms through her photography.
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Peter Hornbostel, MPSA
Born in 1954. Residence Greater Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. On road with the camera since 1983. Different interests in analogue times nature, night, architecture. Seriously started taking digital photos 2011. Cameras Canon 550 D, 7D Mark II. Actual interests UNESCO world heritage Germany (life work on going), nature (specially birds and insects), night shots, lightpainting, lost places, architecture, reflections, table top (seasonal or workshops), sport (action, movement). Future interests monochrome, street, astronomy, electricity.
I'm on the road with friends (photowalks), in workshops (our photoclub www.fotogruppe-bredenbeck.de) or simply alone with much fun whoever will accompany me. So much beauty outside, let's gonna catch 'em!
I found a new photographic field: competitions. I participate about 100 international salons per year, mostly as a photographer, but also as a judge.
Dr Ernoe Barsi
I am a pensioner pediatrician, I enjoy taking photographs of nature, and usually of birds. I have fifteen years of experience, I participated in several photography contests both in Hungary and in abroad. I am living in north-west Hungary in a village, and for me better the online learning about nature photography.
Jeremy Martin
I started my hobby in photography with a Canon film camera back in 2002 and have enjoyed it ever since. I was very active in multiple camera clubs in the Buffalo NY area, but when both my kids started school it was just to much. Now that the youngest is off to college I have started back up and am enjoying learning how far things have come in the last 12 years. I have a number of other hobbies outside of photography including banding birds, ham radio, aquariums, and shooting trap. I own my own engineering consulting company and design and build automated assembly equipment, test machines, and even do some product design. I have a machine shop at my home that I work out of. I've been married to a patient and loving wife since 2004 and we have two boys.
You can see my work on: Flickr Photostream
Roy Lockwood
I am retired. I spent 20 years as an Army pilot, then 23 years as a Federal Aviation Administration Pilot. I took up photography in 2019 taking a collage course. I like wildlife and mastering technical stuff, so wildlife photography has become a great hobby. I live in west central Florida so there are lots of birds.
Charles Dodd
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Butch Mazzuca, BPSA
I started shooting in 2008 after a trip to Africa and consider myself a generalist. I'm a retired insurance executive and former Marine Corps helicopter pilot :-) I hail from Chicago, now live in Tucson but spent the last 45 years in Vail, Colorado. I used to belong to several photo clubs but find PSA's Study and Discussion Groups more fun - plus I learn more.
My perspective on photography is as follows:
I believe if you ask 10 photographers to define what comprises a good photograph, you'll get 10 different answers. However, what the best photographer I know taught me, is that if you want to know what types of photographs most often win in competitions there's only one answer - "Impact, Visual Interest, and Storytelling are the three aspects of an image that need to be the hook that grabs and keeps the viewer's attention and outweigh any minor technical deficiencies."
It's also my experience that far too many club judges focus on the technical aspects of photography and overlook the artistry and creativity in a photograph. So, my reviews and visual feedback will focus on the foregoing.
Lastly, I believe post processing is 50% of digital photography and while I do not try to alter nature or a scene, I do try to reveal the strongest visual and narrative elements of a scene and review same way.
You can see my work on: Butch Mazzuca