We are delighted to announce a who's who of professional photographers and industry
professionals on our judging panel;
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Judge
Christian Fletcher West
Australian landscape photographer
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Christian Fletcher has been taking photographs
professionally for over 18 years. "In that time I have
had to evolve with every advance in technology and
creative technique. It is such an exciting and
challenging time to be in the industry.
"The advent of digital has revolutionised photography
as an art form. It has also bought photography and image
manipulation to the masses. Every second person now
takes photographs and many are trying their hand at
creating a living from their hobbies.
"Digital in some ways made it easier to be a
photographer, but it still takes a certain level of
skill and understanding to truly master the craft. I cut
my teeth on film and lived for years in a darkened room,
mixing chemicals, printing my own prints and framing
them. When I think of where I began, look at where I am
now and beyond to the future, I am amazed at how far I
have come and how far there is still left to go.
"Every month someone develops an new idea or approach
that refines photography just that little bit more. It
is these refinements that keep it exciting for me.
Photography comes second to my family, I place it that
highly. Sometimes it can be frustrating, sometimes
depressing, but it is always rewarding if you work hard
and want to succeed."
Christian has just won 4 awards at the 2009
Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPA)
including a Gold, two Silvers with Distinction and a
Silver.
http://www.christianfletcher.com.au/ |
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Nick Rains M. Photog., Editor
Better Digital Camera, landscape photographer
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Nick Rains loves being a landscape photographer
because it gets him out and about. "This is one of the
reasons I love this job - I get to go the some of the
remotest places in this huge country, far away from the
busy cities and into a place where you can quite
literally roll out a swag, light a fire and sleep under
the stars."
Nick is widely published which is very satisfying,
but he says having your work appreciated for its own
qualities is probably the ultimate goal for any serious
photographer. "I started off in photography almost
straight out of Swansea University in South Wales where
I studied Zoology. I picked up the basics by going out
and using film, oh, and reading photography books as
well. I didn't do any formal training until a few years
later when I did a two year tech course on studio and
commercial photography. Commercial photography was well
paid and reasonably interesting but I soon got more
interested in travel photography so, like many others
were starting to do, I shouldered a backpack and headed
off into Asia and Australia.
"I ended up in Australia and was soon working for
Canon during the 1986 America's Cup in Fremantle. This
was where I met all the top international photographers
and magazine editors who were all very helpful to a
young photographer starting out in serious international
work. I had a ball during the 12 months I spent in
Perth, my work was published in Sports Illustrated,
London Times, Paris Match, Stern and many other well
known publications. I worked for Time Magazine for a
while as an assistant and learned a whole load of stuff
about what professional photography is all about.
"Of course my Visa finally ran out and I headed back
to England. My new contacts stood me in good stead and
this period was when I fully developed my landscape
photography by undertaking extended trips into Germany,
Turkey, Italy, France, and Spain shooting for the stock
photography market. Finally I decided to move back to
Australia for good in 1990 and have been shooting this
fabulous country ever since. I have travelled almost
half a million kilometers in that time and have been to
just about every major place on interest. In fact the
only major places I have yet to visit are Cape York and
the central deserts of WA. "
Nick is a Master of Photography with the AIPP and the
editor of Better Digital Camera magazine.
http://www.nickrains.com/ |
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Jaspal Jandu UK landscape
photographer
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Jaspal Jandu is a British born panoramic photographer
based in London, England. With worldwide book releases
and regular touring exhibitions, Jaspal Jandu is now
recognised as one of the world's leading exponents of
panoramic landscape photography with a special emphasis
on natural phenomena and the environment.
Working alongside his father - a renowned
architect - Jaspal's creative flair was apparent from a
very early age. Whilst completing a thesis on 'The
Renaissance school and its use of light and proportion',
a serendipitous encounter with the world of large-format
panoramic film photography provided him with the perfect
medium through which to explore light and proportion in
the natural world.
Aligning the effects of
dramatic light and his own unique sense of composition,
Jaspal was soon receiving commissions and began
traveling extensively around the world. Returning to
countries over the course of many years, he compiled
time-lapse images of glacial retreat and desertification
which resonated strongly with the mood and the tastes of
the general public and art editors alike. Jaspal's
travels culminated in 2009 with the release of an epic
volume, 'Natural Wonders: A Panoramic Vision'. Covering
25 countries over a four year voyage, it proved to be a
perfectly timed wake-up call, illustrating that the
intrinsic beauty of our shared world is both transient
and perilously fragile.
The volume was warmly
received and was accompanied by extensive press coverage
and a touring exhibition which played host to over six
thousand visitors.
Jaspal is currently engaged
in two new panoramic photography projects, including one
on the American West. In addition, Jaspal Jandu
Photography has recently incorporated a publishing house
and will continue to expand its range of large, limited
edition prints to its dedicated client base.
http://www.jaspaljandu.com/ |
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Judge
Peter Eastway G.M. Photog., Hon.
FAIPP, Hon FNZIPP, FAIPP
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Having worked in most areas of professional
photography, Peter Eastway's passion is for landscapes,
portraiture and the printed page. He is the publisher of
Better Photography and co-publisher of Better Digital
and Better Photoshop Techniques, Australia's three
leading photography magazines.
Peter's work is so
respected that Lonely Planet chose him to write their
international photography guide book on landscape
photography. He is also a Grand Master of Photography,
one of only eight in the world and earned from a career
spanning nearly 30 years.
Peter has won many
awards for his photography. In 1996 and 1998 he was the
AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year.
He was Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year in
1995, 1996 and 1998, Australian Illustrative
Photographer of the Year in 2004, and NSW Professional
Photographer of the Year in 1995, 1996 and 2004. He has
also won the Grand Award for the Commercial Category at
the 2005 and 2008 WPPI Exhibition in Las
Vegas.
Peter is well-known as a photography judge
both in Australia and overseas and has shared his
experience with amateur and professional photography
organisations around the world. He is currently the
Chairman of the AIPP Australian Professional Photography
Awards.
http://www.petereastway.com/
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Christian Fleury USA landscape
photographer
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Christian Fleury was born in Freiburg, Germany just a
few miles from the borders of both France, where his
father grew up, and Switzerland. Christian took a
traditional route on his career in professional
photography. After graduating from college, where he
majored in photography, he worked as a photo assistant
on advertising, architectural, and editorial projects.
In 1998, he moved to Berlin where he then worked as a
freelance sports and press photographer for several
different sports agencies, newspapers, and magazines. At
first, his panoramic photography was a relaxing hobby.
However, in 2003, when he moved to the United States, he
became increasingly captivated by landscape and
panoramic photography. Today, Christian's primary
photographic work centers around capturing images in the
6x17 and Xpan panoramic format. His work is used for
stock photography as well as for fine art prints.
Currently, a resident of Sunnyvale, California. Christian loves the
San Francisco Bay Area and the rich variety of the
California landscape.
http://www.fleuryphoto.com/
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Tom Putt AAIPP, landscape
photographer
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Tom Putt is part of the new generation of panoramic
landscape photographers. Passionate and wildly
enthusiastic about his photography, Tom has spent the
last 12 years exploring all parts of Australia to
photographing stunning panoramic images.
Tom
first fell in love with photography at age 13. He
photographed wildlife as an amateur before leaving
university to pursue a career in sports photography. In
1998, Tom's photographic ability was recognized by
Australia's leading sports photography agency, Sport the
Library. He covered over 300 events in a three year
period with the library, including the Sydney 2000
Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Tom's passion has
always been in panoramic landscape photography. His
first shoot as a landscape photographer was walking the
Overland Track for the first time in 1997. Since then,
Tom has traveled extensively across Australia and New
Zealand photographing stunning landscapes in panoramic
format.
An Associate of the Australian Institute
of Professional Photography (AIPP), Tom has won over 30
Gold and Silver Awards in National and State Finals. In
2005, he was the only Australian to be Highly Commended
in the world's most prestigious wildlife photographic
competition, the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Tom is also a regular judge at the Canon Australian
Professional Photography Awards.
http://www.tomputt.com/ |
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Judge
Glenn Beanland Image Editor,
Lonely Planet Images
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Lonely Planet, the experts in independent travel
information now present Lonely Planet Images (LPI). LPI
is a digital image library with a unique and
comprehensive collection of over 300,000 downloadable
travel photographs taken by some of the best travel
photographers in the business.
The collection
captures the diversity of the world's countries: from
the major tourist attractions to everyday scenes, from
popular destinations to little known places off the
beaten track. For professional users of images in
advertising, media, design or publishing, these
high-quality images let you zoom in and view the world
up close.
Lonely Planet Publications publishes
the world's best guidebooks for independent travellers.
Their guidebooks, atlases, maps, pictorials,
phrasebooks, travel literature and web site cover every
continent and backwater cranny. The products provide
reliable, insightful, pull-no-punches travel information
to get you to your destination and back and now they
have the images to match.
Glenn Beanland is
Image Editor for Lonely Planet Images, based in
Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.lonelyplanetimages.com/ |
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Michelle Novak Director of
Photography for Panoramic Images
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Michelle Novak joined Panoramic Images as the
Director of Photography in late 2004. Panoramic Images
specializes in travel and scenic stock photography with
an emphasis on the panoramic format. They are the only
stock agency that is image partners with both Getty and
with the National Geographic Society.
Previously
the Content Manager for the Image Bank, Chicago,
Michelle brings with her a vast knowledge of the stock
photo industry. She began her career researching and
editing some of the world's most beautiful and
exciting landscape, adventure, and travel photography
while working on staff at Outside magazine.
She
has also worked with photographers on building their
portfolios and editing and managing their stock
collections. With her 18 years of visual media,
marketing, and technology experience she has been key in
designing the digital content program for Panoramic and
developing a new market-driven creative workflow.
Michelle is a contributor to the UPDIG-
Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guide- Digital
Imaging Submission Guidelines. She is an active member
of ASPP Midwest Chicago. She holds degrees from both
R.I.T. and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
"At Panoramic Images, we are in the unique
position to draw upon 3 generations of panoramic
photography for content. We use that base to represent
photographers and serve clients with all that the
panoramic world has to offer."
http://www.panoramicimages.com/ |
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Doug Segal Founder of Panoramic
Images
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Doug Segal grew up in Washington, D.C. in a
professional photography family. Both his father Ed, a
prolific commercial Cirkut panorama enthusiast for 50
years, and brother Mark, a panoramic advertising, travel
and location shooter for 35 years, were founding members
of the IAPP ( International Assoc. of Panoramic
Photographers) in the late 70's.
Doug is a 28
year resident of Chicago, where in 1987 he and Mark
founded PANORAMIC IMAGES, a photo stock agency
specializing in wide and large format panoramic work.
Throughout most of the 1990's Doug served on the
boards of both the IAPP ( International Assoc. of
Panoramic Photographers) and PACA ( Picture Archive
Council of America). While managing and marketing the
transparency and digital library of the work of 250
panoramic photographers takes up most of his time, Doug
occasionally sneaks out with a Linhoff 617 to shoot a
couple of his own.
http://www.panoramicimages.com/ |
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Bill Leigh Brewer The 2010 Epson International Pano Awards Photographer of the Year.
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Bill has been a Los Angeles photographer since 1982. Assignment photography has taken him from LA to New York as well as Malaysia, Nova Scotia, and Cost Rica, while personal work has led him to Cuba, Europe, and the American Southwest. His specialty for assignment work remains cars. He's shot Acura, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Isuzu, Lexus, Mazda, Nissan, and Toyota in the studio and on location.
Born in Los Angeles, Bill was raised in a military family, living in Northern California, Texas, Germany, and Los Angeles. Upon receiving his post graduate degree from USC, he taught in California's public schools for six years and has taught commercial lighting and black and white photography at Long Beach City College where he is a former member of their Photography Advisory Committee.
Bill has been honored multiple times by the Palm Springs Art Museum, being represented in several museum exhibitions. In 2001 he received a Donaldson Trust Fellowship -- a one month residency at the Vermont Studio Center. He was a winner in the Nikon International Photography Contest, The Photo Design Magazine competition for advertising photography, and the Photographer's Forum annual competition.
Bill's images may be found in many private and corporate collections.
http://www.billybrewer.com/ |
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David L. Nicholas
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Mr. Nicholas, a graduate with Highest Honors from the Rochester Institute of Technology, has had a multi- faceted career:
- A chemist with patents and publications in scientific journals.
- An editor of publications on the scientific and technical aspects of photography and graphic arts.
- Marketing Manager of a division of a major graphic arts manufacturer and supplier.
- Owner and partner in a major NYC graphic arts company.
During this time he avidly pursued photography.
His photographic work has appeared in:
- 'An Introduction to the Worlds Oceans' By Duxbury & Duxbury, (1984).
- Parsons School of Design Catalog Cover, (2004).
- Asian Photography/ India Magazine, (October, 2008).
His work is also represented in private and corporate collections
Shows:
- One person show at Artsee Eyewear Gallery, (March, 2005)
- Two person show 23rd Street Association Exhibit, (September, 2005)
- Group Show 'Heaven & Earth' Ladakh, India- A Photography Exhibition, Curator, Arlene Collins sponsored by ICP. At Gallery Chateau, (March, 2007)
- Group Show 'ICP Travel Photography, (February, 2008)
Awards:
- Open House New York multiple category winner, October, 2005
http://www.davidnicholasphotography.com |
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Thomas D. Bleich
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Past-President (2005-2007) and charter member of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers.
He began his photographic career as a photojournalist and editor for newspapers in Michigan and Texas. During the last two decades of the 20th century he worked in network television news and public affairs broadcasting.
Thomas began making panoramic photographs of historic events, landscapes and large groups in 1985 using the No.10 Cirkut camera. He entered the Guinness Book of World Records in photography for five years (1993-1998) setting the record for the, 'Longest Photograph Negative' in the arts and entertainment division.
Mr. Bleich lives with his wife Frances Cox in Austin, Texas and continues to practice photography.
http://www.tombleich.com/ |
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George S. Pearl
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George S. Pearl, QPP, is from Vicksburg, Mississippi, the son of a cotton farmer. He is a 4 year US Navy Viet Nam Veteran having served as an Aviation Electronics Technician.
He received his BS degree from the University of Southern Mississippi majoring in Radio, Television & Film and worked as assistant director of medical photography at UMC in Jackson, MS. before moving to Atlanta to take on a pilot project in photography for the rest of the nation called Vanishing Georgia, under the Georgia Department of Archives & History.
In 1978, Pearl started Atlanta Legal Photo Services, Inc. in Atlanta, which has become a legend with attorneys in Atlanta.
Wanting to make people happy and pursue panorama photography, around 1995 the division Atlanta Panorama www.AtlantaPanorama.com was formed. "Making huge group photos is such a hoot!" Pearl says. The largest group to date has been 10,000 people. He also is a master at large group formation panorama pictures using thousands of people to form the picture designs.
Pearl is a Board Certified Evidence Photographer, Board Certified Questioned Document Examiner & Handwriting Expert, and runs the Qualified Panorama Photography program for IAPP and as also the web site editor.
He lives in Atlanta and is married to Claudia, a video producer, and has one son Ryan who also works at the company.
http://www.atlantapanorama.com |
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Dawn Snow
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Dawn Snow has pursued her passion for photography, art and design all her life since learning darkroom techniques from her father at an arts & crafts school & learning how to SEE creatively from her mother.
She was a corporate photographer for a U.S. based Fortune 200 Corporation for over 10 years and a graphic designer for over 20.
Dawn received the designation of 'Certified Professional Photographer' by the Professional Photographers of America, and has a print accepted in the PPA's 2009 Print Competition Loan Collection. She has won numerous International Association of Business Communicators Bronze and Silver Quills for her editorial & illustrative photographs.
http://www.snowprophoto.com |
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Michel Dusariez
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Michel Dusariez was born in 1938 in Brussels, where he still lives. In 1959 he qualified as an Optician Optometrist at the Centre for Applied Optical Science.
In 1985 he founded and was president of the KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION - FOUNDATION ( KAPWA ). This association has more than 500 practicing members throughout the world. He has been doing 360° panoptic photography since 1989.
In 1996 he received the DE BOELPAEPE prize from the ROYAL ACADEMY OF BELGIUM - Science Class - for his work in 360° panoptic stereoscopic photography.
He was invited to participate in and make a presentation to ELECTRONIC IMAGING - STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY AND VIRTUAL REALITY at SAN JOSE, CA, USA in February 1997.
Michel demonstrated his technical progression showing 10 prototype cameras he made himself, at the PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM of CHARLEROI Belgium - February/March 1997.
He organized the first European meeting of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHERS (IAPP) in Brussels in 1996, and has participated in many exhibition and publications everywhere from 1985 through today.
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The VR/360 Judging Panel
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G. Donald Bain
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I have always used photographs of landscapes in teaching geography and environmental sciences. This led me to create The Geo-Images Project in 1991, one of the earliest web sites (1994), and perhaps the first site to feature color imagery.
When I first saw Apple's QTVR, I recognized it as a significant advance in portraying landscapes. I built a special camera mount and started making VR panoramas in 1995, eventually presenting them on my website: Don Bain's Virtual Guidebooks. My goal is to portray the landscapes of western North America, in pursuit of which I have travelled from the tip of Baja California in Mexico to the Arctic Ocean in Canada, creating over 8000 panoramas.
In 2004 Landis Bennett and I founded the World Wide Panorama with the aim of bringing VR photography to the attention of a wider audience, and promoting a sense of community among the participants. It is now administered by the World Wide Panorama Foundation, of which I am President. I served on the IVRPA (IQTVRA) board from 2004 to 2007 and again beginning in 2009, and currently serve as Vice-President.
In June 2007 I helped organize and host the International VR Photography Conference in Berkeley, California. In 2010 Christian Fleury and I were the organizers of Tucson 2010 - The International Panoramic Photography Conference in Tucson, Arizona.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended the University of California at Berkeley and University College London in England. From 1986 to 2008 I was the Director of the Geography Computing Facility, University of California Berkeley, where I taught computer cartography and field studies. I live in El Cerrito, on the crest of the Berkeley Hills, with my wife Dr Nora Weldon and two cats.
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Aaron Spence
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Buying an SLR camera in highschool during the late 80's kicked off my career as a photographer. I entered the digital age of photography in 1996 with Photoshop 3.0.5 and a Nikon Coolscan II film scanner. In 2000 after years of computer based design, web, cd-rom, audio, video & photography I finally found the perfect blend of photography & computer imaging
..the 360 degree panoramic virtual tour.
Since that time, I've continued working across most fields of digital multimedia while specialising in the shooting & production of panoramic virtual tours. All the while I've had a desire to build the ultimate product and company to expand the use and appreciation of the Panoramic Virtual Tour.
Over the past couple of years I've had the opportunity to make that desire a reality, doing extensive R&D into panoramic photography workflows & systems for batch processing extremely high quality georeferenced panoramic photography. The fruit of these years of labour is Panedia, in what we have now, and the more advanced products & services still to come.
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Scott Highton
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Scott Highton has often been called "the original VR photographer" , having served as the first outside photographer brought in by both Apple and IPIX for testing and consulting during their respective developments of QuickTime VR and IPIX technologies.
In the 16 years since, he has remained a pioneer in the development of effective and creative shooting techniques for panoramic VR, and has photographed a number of landmark assignments and locations. His long awaited book on Virtual Reality Photography has recently been completed. see http://www.vrphotography.com/bookpromo.html
http://www.vrphotography.com
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Keith Martin
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Keith Martin is a Senior Lecturer at the London College of Communication, part of the University of the Arts London. He teaches publishing, editorial and design for print and digital media in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Outside of this role Keith is the Technical Editor of MacUser magazine, and he is on the board of the World Wide Panorama project.
He has also written and contributed to a wide range of articles and to numerous books on the subjects of design and production for print and digital media, including The Digital Designer's Bible, Creative Suite 3 Integration, and 1000 Fonts. Keith has been designing and developing content, structure and interaction logic for digital media since 1989.
http://www.panoramaphotographer.com
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Pat Swovelin
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With 4 decades as a skydiver and well over 2 decades in the motion picture industry as a First Assistant Cameraman Pat has unrivaled experience in shot composition and opening view selection. A lifetime of being able to move freely in a 3D world (vs. the 2D world everyone experiences on the ground) and "thinking through the lens" as a career give him a unique perception of the world around him. The 3D world is what VR is all about and that's where he excels.
Pat is a co-founder of the PanotoolsNG Yahoo! group and President of its Verein. He is the Events Coordinator for the World Wide Panorama project and last year was the Tutorials Coordinator for the Tucson 2010 Conference.
http://www.lookinanydirection.com/
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