Photographers
- Rachman Cantrell
- Simón Cherpitel
- Rob Dodson
- Dahlia Van Gelder
- Rohila Guy
- Sydney Hoerler
- Leo Horthy
- Yuri Lev
- Lucian Parshall
- Triana Singelyn
Rachman Cantrell
Rob Dodson
Photographer’s Website: robdodson.net
Portfolio: https://pbase.com/robdodson
Blog: https://www.z11p.com/blog/
Rohila Guy
Sydney Hoerler
Sydney has a passion for photography. She graduated in 2010 with a BFA in photography from College for Creative Studies in Detroit MI. Her area of focus is stree and underwater photography.
Leo Horthy
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Leo Horthy
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Bio
Although I started my adventures in creative photography in high school, there were many years that I only took photos of friends and while traveling. That all changed about a year and a half ago and I bought a serious DSLR and committed to sharing at least one photo a day online. Since then I have I have captured many amazing photos of the natural world in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where I live in California, and around the world as I travel.
At this time I work exclusively in the digital photography medium. I am inspired by the beauty I find in nature, and like to focus on details, color and light interplay. I often accompany my photos with what I call micro poetry – a few words that poetically balance with the photograph to create story and get the observer to take a second and possibly deeper look. I hope to continue learning the craft of photography to better capture the images I see in my head and evolve the quality and diversity of the pictures I take.
I fill and have filled many roles in my life. At this point though I have the freedom to try new things, travel and meet people as I go. I feel grateful and blessed that this is the case, and hope to make the most of this opportunity.
I was born in London in the early 60′s and lived there until my family moved to Indonesia in 1967. I lived there for 10 years, learning the language and becoming immersed in the local culture. My parents were members of a spiritual organization called Subud (short for Susila Budhi Dharma) and we had been invited to live in the Subud community in Jakarta by the group’s founder Bapak Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwijoyo.
I returned to England in 1978 to complete high school and go to college. Once I graduated I started traveling the world living in Boston, Sydney, London and Los Angeles. I arrived in LA in 1992 and settled there to raise my son. Now that my son has graduated college, I am once again turning my attention to traveling.
Although, most of my career to this point as been technical in nature, I am finding myself drawn to the creative arts. There were times when I was younger that I felt I had no creative talents of any sort, but as I have gotten older and tried a few creative things and found that I enjoy it and am often satisfied with the results. As for photography, I remember shooting with a Kodak Instamatic when I was 9 years old. I took a semester in photography in high school and got comfortable shooting with SLR camera’s. However, in college I gave it all up after having my third SLR stolen.
With the advent of digital photography I started playing around again in the late 90′s. My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix 950. I switched to a series compact point and shoot digital cameras a couple of years later ending with the Panasonic Lumix TZ4. In 2009 I bought my first DSLR a Nikon D3000. I mainly used it as a glorified point and shoot for four years, never taking it off the various automatic modes. I was happy with the results I was getting and did not have the patience to relearn how to shoot manually all over again. Something shifted about a year ago. I felt I really wanted to get more creative with my photography, and I was getting more ambitious in the types of images I wanted to capture. So I went out and bought the Nikon D600 and started playing with the various manual modes, buying some professional grade lenses and really trying to experiment with what was possible.
(Updated February 2014)
Lucian Parshall
Tanagers are one of my favorite species to photograph. There are close to 149 species of birds in the Americas with tanager in their name – 145 in South and Central Americas and only 4 are found in North America. As one can see in my gallery tanagers are a very colorful species – they are noted for their brilliant, jewel-like plumages, with striking greens, blues, and yellows.
I was a birder in the late 60’s but as soon as 35mm film cameras with telephoto lenses emerged in early 70’s my interest in bird photography began. The problem with film was that you don’t find out if you got any decent photos until you had them developed. Unfortunately, with a young family film photography became too expensive and I had to put my photography on hold.
However, nearly 4 decades later (2010) my hobby restarted in earnest. I had retired, digital cameras had matured and I became an empty nester. It was a trifecta: I could bird, I could photograph, I could travel. At that time my attention refocused from birds in North America to those in South and Central America. I traveled to ecolodges in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica – with so many new species it was like starting out as a rookie birder all over again, but this time with digital. With digital cameras you could edit your own photos on your computer which became gratifying in itself.
My hobby observing, banding, feeding and taking photographs of birds began very early and has lasted my lifetime – what a wonderful joy dinosaurs turned out to be.
Triana Singelyn
Triana was born and raised in Michigan. She attended U of M and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in painting and design. She went on to acquire her master’s degree in art education from Wayne State University. She taught art to elementary and middle school students for over thirty years before she moved to Arizona in pursuit of the sun. As a Fulbright Memorial Fund scholar (2002) she traveled to Japan and has since traveled world-wide as well as throughout the United States. Her masters thesis was in photography and she uses her iPhone to capture her travels. Triana currently lives in Longmont, Colorado. She considers herself a mosaic artist but she loves to work in all media. Her many years of teaching children has nurtured the possibility of creating beauty from everyday discards. She sees most things as potential objects of art. Her yard is full of her whimsical creations in tile, ceramics, concrete and found objects. Triana continues to teach art to adults from her home studio.
