Instructors

All of our instructors have been selected not only for their photographic expertise, but also for their teaching abilities. Instructors come from all over the world to bring knowledge and experience to each of our attendees.

Matt Kloskowski

Specializations
Adobe Photoshop

While many pros do come to Matt for training, his main audience is kind of like him – people that simply love photography. People who want easy-to-follow training on how to capture better photos, and how to make those photos look better with Lightroom and Photoshop and ON1 apps to add personal “style.”

Most people Matt talks with aren’t making a ton of money (or any for that matter) from photography or post-processing. They just really enjoy it and want to get better. And heck… if they can sell a few prints, or shoot a few events to make some extra cash to support photography… even better!

Ellen Anon

Specializations
Wildlife/landscape
Macro
Artistic

Ellen is a freelance photographer and writer who specializes in expressive photography. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and while practicing as a psychologist, began working part-time in photography co-leading workshops, writing articles, editing and authoring books and gradually evolved into a full time professional photographer in the mid-1990s.

Yannick Michaud

Specializations
Landscape
Wildlife

Yannick Michaud has a passion for creating images that evoke emotion and thought. He began his career in the early 1990s when, studying history and literature at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, he woke up one early spring morning and decided that he enjoyed creating images more than studying in a stuffy room.

After finishing a degree in Commercial Photography, he decided to follow his Danish wife back to Denmark, where he immediately began working for some of Scandinavia’s most prestigious commercial studios. He has developed an impressive client list, Lancôme, L’Oréal, Givenchy, and worked on a multitude of projects for magazines, brochures, extensive range commercial work, and also for the Danish Royal House.

Glyn Dewis

Specializations
Portrait Photographer
Lighting Instruction
Post Production Educator

Glyn is a photographer, educator and best selling author living in beautiful Devon in the UK. He is a husband, an animal lover and the founder and photographer of the 39-45 Portraits Project.

Padma Inguva

Specializations
Floral and Product Photography
Architectural Photography

Padma Inguva’s obsession with floral photography grew from the seeds of tending her father’s garden with him in India. Twenty-five years ago, she emigrated to New Jersey for education and to start a family, cultivating a lush garden in her backyard. Unfortunately, these beautiful blooms only lasted a season, so she picked up a camera, hoping to permanently capture the magic she saw in them. Curiosity gave way to passion as photography became a way to escape the stress and presented a constantly evolving challenge. Over the past decade, she has honed her craft, unafraid of experimentation, humor, or getting a little dirty.

Doug Hansgate

Specializations
Portrait/fashion
Wildlife
Educator

Doug Hansgate is an award-winning photographer from Buffalo, New York, and is the owner of AMP Studios where he specializes in fine art, fashion, and portrait photography.

Larry Tiefenbrunn

Specializations:
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Wildlife

"Dr. T" has been a pediatrician for over thirty years but a photographer for over forty. Within the imaging community, he's not only recognized as an accomplished artist but the inventor and founder of Platypod. Designed to be a sidekick to a tripod and give photographers a different perspective, he founded the company in 2014.

Freeman Patterson

Freeman Patterson is an internationally recognized photographer, teacher of visual design, and writer. His books include Namaqualand: Garden of the Gods; Portraits of Earth; Shadowlight;; Odysseys, Meditations and Thoughts for a Life’s Journey; The Garden; Canada: A Year of the Land (major contributor); Between Friends/Entre Amis (major contributor), and many instructional books on the subject of photography and visual design. He received a Master’s Degree in divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University.

Rick Friedman

Specializations
Photojournalism
Portraiture
Location Lighting

Rick Friedman has been a photojournalist for over four decades. Based in Boston, he travels the world for numerous publications, corporations, advertising assignments and film and television productions. His published work has appeared in National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Nature, USA Today, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Stern, Discover and many other publications. His photographs have appeared on CNN, ABC, NBC,CBS, Fox, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Saturday Night Live and in numerous documentaries. He has produced over 75 book and magazine covers and worked on 20 movies. Rick is a Tamron Lens Ambassador and a Savage Universal Ambassador. Rick has taught his “Location Lighting Workshops” for over 16 years across the US, Canada, UK and UAE.

Ann & Steve Toon

Ann and Steve are an award-winning UK-based husband and wife team of professional wildlife photographers who specialize in the wildlife and wild places of Southern Africa, where they have been photographing for more than 20 years.  Former journalists, they bring a story-telling approach to their work and have written and photographed hundreds of articles on photography, natural history, conservation, and travel, for a wide range of publications around the world, as well as writing three books. Ann and Steve spend four or five months of every year in Africa, photographing personal projects and commissions, and leading specialist photo safaris to some of their favorite wildlife locations.

Don Komarechka

Specializations
Ultra Macro
Macro
Ultra Violet Light

Don Komarechka is a nature, macro and landscape photographer located in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. From auroras to pollen, insects to infrared, much of Don’s photographic adventures reveal a deeper understanding of how the universe works. Exploring the world that we cannot see with our own eyes has been a common thread in Don’s career as a professional photographer.

Don teaches workshops in the areas of nature photography and macro photography, as well as photographic editing and creative compositions. “Photography is about sharing your unique view of the world with others – without using words. Helping others accomplish the same goal is extremely rewarding. I like to see the world through my camera in ways I normally cannot see with my own eyes. Seeing the world beyond vision is a gift that photography gives me.”

Shiv Verma

Shiv Verma, FPSA, MNEC, is a published author, photographer, educator, and technologist. He is a Panasonic Lumix Global Ambassador, Wacom Pro-Artist and an X-Rite Coloratti. He has been photographing for over 50 years and has evolved his photography to express his intense devotion to wildlife and nature. Over the years, he has earned numerous awards and recognition both nationally and internationally. Shiv devotes a great deal of his time formally reviewing photography-related products, to education in digital photography and is a speaker and competition judge. He conducts photo tours and workshops worldwide and typically has one tour a month.

Miguel Quiles

Specializations
Portrait
Social Media Marketing
Social Media Content Development

Miguel Quiles is a New Jersey-based commercial portrait and headshot photographer who has been involved in the photography industry for over 15 years. He is also a writer and contributor for Rangefinder Magazine and SLR Lounge and teaches workshops throughout the country. As a self-taught photographer, Miguel hopes to share his experience and knowledge with new and upcoming photographers who wish to take their work to the next level.