Featured Quests
Studio Lighting 1
July 18-20
2008
Kenya
Sep 23-Oct 5
2008
Bolivia
Nov 6-17
2008
Galapagos
Dec 6-15
2008
Quest Leaders
Mark Alberhasky
Mark Alberhasky is a contributing photographer for Nikon, author, and photo educator. His work has received international recognition, appearing in Nikon World, Asian Photography, American Windsurfing, Paddler, The Photographer, the Lowepro Calendar, medical journals, book covers, corporate installations and private collections. He is sponsored by Lowepro and HP, and is an Image Master for DxO software. His skills as a speaker, author, and photo leader inspire as well as entertain.
Lin Alder
Lin Alder is a widely experienced assignment and stock photographer and teacher of photography who captures location images of adventure, travel and nature for commercial and editorial clients around the globe. His work is published in The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, and High Country News, among others. His wide-ranging commercial clients include JP Morgan, Bath & Body Works, Patagonia, Inc. and Mountain Hardwear. Lin’s stock images are represented by Getty Images and workbookstock.com.
Chris Alvanas
Chris Alvanas is a digital photographer and photoshop maven. He is a gifted and sought after post-production artist for high-end beauty retouching. As a photographer, Chris is known for his commercial quirky kids images.
His fine art side delves into the worlds of jazz and dance by illustrating the musician’s relationship with the instrument, as well as the motion of dance: his images are anything but static.
Fred Aquilino
Fred Aquilino has been involved with photography for more than 40 years, working in various areas of the profession including free lance magazine and news agency photography and even as a color and black and white lab technician in his early years. From that experience, Fred’s passion for photography grew into a career that has taken him through the US and to Asia, Africa, Europe and the Far East.
Dave Black
Dave’s work has appeared in a variety of magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, ESPN, Parade and The Wall Street Journal. And with such publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Bantam Double Day, Pindor Press, Hyperion, Scribner, and Broadway. Television includes ABC Sports, CBS Sports, E Entertainment, NBC Sports, and the award winning ESPN Classics.
Quest leader for Russia, The Netherlands
Tom Bol
Tom Bol is an editorial and commercial photographer who specializes in adventure sports, portraits and travel photography. He shoots assignments for clients including Columbia Sportswear, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Nikon, Sunset Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. He is represented by 6 stock agencies, and his images are used for advertising, books, billboards, brochures and posters. He loves to teach, and has taught workshops for 12 years.
Mirjam Evers
Mirjam Evers is a Dutch freelance photographer specializing in
environmental portraits, travel, documentary and adventure
photography. During the course of her career she has traveled to over
50 countries capturing the diversity of people and cultures in some of
the most exotic places in the world. She specializes in shooting
intimate portraits using off camera flash, unusual angles and
interesting lenses. Her photographs have been published in PC Photo,
Outdoor Photographer, PDN Magazine, American Photo, Popular
Photography, Hamptons Magazine, Photographer’s Forum “Best of Photography
Annual” and International Expeditions. Corporate clients include:
Lensbaby, Lowepro, Epson and Visa Card. Mirjam is based in New York
City and is a member of ASMP and PPA.
“She’s able to transcend cultural and language barriers with an intangible spirit that comes through in every portrait.” -Mark Edward Harris, PC Photo
Quest Leader for Bhutan, The Netherlands
Adam Jones
For over 20 years Adam Jones has continually honed his craft and today this highly successful photographer’s images grace prestigious national and international publications. He is widely published in a variety of consumer and commercial publications. With well over (100) calendar credits annually, Adam’s wildlife and scenic images are highly sought after by major publishers.
Lewis Kemper
Lewis Kemper has been photographing the natural beauty of North America, and it’s park lands for over 27 years specializing in nature and outdoor photography. During his extensive travels, he has been to 47 states from Alaska to Florida. His work has been exhibited and published in magazines, books, and calendars worldwide.
He has been named to Canon USA’s elite group of photographers,
The Explorers of Light.
Quest leader for Galapagos
William Manning
William Manning is represented by Corbis Images in New York and has worked on many travel and architectural assignments. William’s photography has been used in national and international publications by American Airlines, BP Amoco, Rand McNally and Co., National Geographic, ESPN Magazine, Readers Digest, Time magazine, Business Week, Reader’s Digest, Sierra Club, John Hancock, Avon Cosmetics, Coldwater Creek, and many others. He is a leader in photography travel and an authority on travel related projects.
“William’s website”: http://www.natureslight.com
Brad Miller
Brad Miller grew up assisting his father, Ardean Miller, a pioneer in color photography and winner of the Leica award for excellence in 1937. After attending RIT he took a job in Detroit and assisted some of the best automotive people of that time. After working there for 2 years he moved to Germany and started his professional career in 1970, working for major automotive companies and specializing in car photography.
Rosanne Pennella
Travel Photographer Rosanne Pennella has been honored by Nikon as a “Legend Behind the Lens”. Clients include Nikon, Lowepro, The Travel Channel and many international tourism offices, travel companies and book publishers including Fodor’s, Random House, The New Yorker, the New York Times, Digital Camera, Travel Holiday, Popular Photography, Asian Photography, Shutterbug, Discover and PDN. Rosanne teaches travel photography at the International Center of Photography and NYC’s The New School.
Quest Leader for Ethiopia
Rick Sammon
Rick Sammon has published 27 books, including his latest trio: Rick Sammon’s Travel and Nature Photography, Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Digital Photography, and Idea to Image.
Rick is the host of the Digital Photography Workshop on the Do It Yourself (DIY) network and a guest host of the Canon Photo Safari on the Outdoor Life Network. He writes for PCPhoto, Outdoor Photographer, Shutterbug and Layers magazine.
Rob Van Petten
Rob Van Petten shoots fashion and lifestyle for advertising. His pictures are a dynamic play of models in motion against a strong colorful background. Metal texture, modern architecture, cosmic lighting and computer manipulation all contribute to the effects in these images. The use of light energizes the images beyond just illuminating the scene.
Alison Wright
Alison Wright, a documentary photographer based in San Francisco, has spent a career capturing the universal spirit of humanity through her photographs. Influenced by her years of living among the Buddhist cultures of Asia, her work documents the traditions and changes of endangered cultures and people in remote areas around the world.