Cape Cod Viewfinders Camera Club - Competition Judge Biographies

COMPETITION JUDGES

Andre Bourque

     Andre, a resident of Millis, Ma., has been a camera club member for over 20 years. He has competed at Stony Brook Camera Club in the AA level, receiving many awards for his outstanding work. Currently Andre has gone digital, and he took this new venture to a very high level by presenting a totally digital, highly creative show at NECCC in the summer of 2004. This show has also been presented at camera clubs in the eastern states. Andre has conducted workshops on digital imaging and has had gallery shows of his beautiful prints.
     Recent awards are: Black & White Print of the Year, 2002/2003 - Stony Brook CC., First place winner NECCC model print competition. His winning photo was used on the cover of the 2003 Speaker’s notes for NECCC. Douglas H Wanser Memorial Award for the best black & white portrait, 1992.

Dan Charbonnet

     Dan has been seriously involved in photography since he joined his first camera club in 1973. He is active in PSA, currently serving as Director in the Nature division and as commentator for color and nature slide study groups. His knowledge of nature is exceptional, and he serves as the "identifier" of nature subjects for PSA. He can also tell you about habits and habitat of almost any of the many species that are the subjects of the PSA nature salon entries. Dan belongs to PSA, Yankee Photographic Society, Stony Brook Camera Club, Greater Lynn Camera Club, Boston Camera Club and Mass. Camera Naturalists, and has served many of these clubs as an officer. In PSA exhibitions, Dan has reached top limits in the color slide division, with impressive star ratings in Nature, Photo Travel and Photojournalism. He has also been awarded over 40 medals in international competition. Added to his club participation, Dan is also a judge, lecturer and author.

Rick Cloran

     Rick Cloran is a member of Greater Lynn CC, Yankee Photographic Society, has judged widely and done presentations for clubs and also at Yankee.
     He is extremely good at most types of photography from nature to sports and photojournalism. He is also very astute which makes his critiques so helpful, as he seems to understand the digital creative process very well.

Greg Crisci

     Greg has been a member of the Boston Camera club for over 20 years, and has served as treasurer for that organization. He is also a member of the Mass Camera Naturalists, an exclusive "invitation only" club whose members must demonstrate that they produce quality nature images, and have a strong regard and respect for nature subjects. He is past chairman of this organization. In addition, he has judged and lectured at various camera clubs and produced a program for NECCC in Amherst and has received a Gold Medal at NECCC for the best New England entry. Greg’s photos have appeared in magazines and catalogues.

Kent Crossley

     Kent joined Stony Brook Camera Club with a number of other people from the Photo Society of Rhode Island. Kent is a versatile photographer with expertise in model photography, and he works with model set ups for the Yankee Photographic Society and NECCC. He is also an excellent nature and scenic photographer, and produces some beautiful special effects images as well. Kent is currently a member of the Photographic Society of Rhode Island and the Mass Camera Naturalists, and is a past member of Stony Brook Camera Club, Boston Camera Club and Fall River Camera Club. His helpful, but careful commentary has taught us a great deal about creating better photographs.

John Fuller

     John has the honor of being awarded "Fellow" in the Photographic Society of America, "Master" member of New England Camera Club, and "Artiste" of the International Federation of the Art of Photography. These honors are awarded for years of dedicated service to each organizations. He is a multi-star exhibitor in PSA in color, nature and photo journalism.
     John was a founding member of Stony Brook Camera Club, Honorary member of Photographic Society of America, and member of Mass Camera Naturalists, Boston Camera Club, and North American Nature Photographers Association. He has served as an officer in most of these organizations, as well as acting as a judge, lecturer, exhibitor, and workshop presenter. He has been published in many notable magazines, newspapers and calendars.

Stan Godwin

Stan was an Associate Professor of Photography at Texas A&M-Commerce (TAMU-C) where he was employed for 30 years. He taught a large variety of courses including, Basic B&W, Color, Nature and Wildlife, Visual Perception and Digital Imaging. At retirement Stan was the Interim Head of the Art Department. Stan has taught over 30 workshops, continues to shoot professionally and personally, and was the lead for one of the first 5 digital programs in a US university.

In 2005 Stan received the “Star of Texas” award for his lengthy contribution to photographic education. His photographic work has been published in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and books over the last three decades. His work has been shown in galleries and on the web. He is a past President of the Photo Imaging Education Association and currently serves as Consultant to that group. Currently Stan is teaching a variety of workshops on Cape Cod and in Texas.

Stan holds the BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and the MS from TAMU-C. After a 30-year hiatus Stan has moved back to his childhood home in Brewster!

Ray Guillette

     Ray is a pediatrician with a passion for photography. He has been a presenter at NECCC and other venues in New England and New York, and possibly other places as well. He has judged local clubs and PSA salons, and recently was published. I'll try to find out the details. His creativity is legendary, his scenics are really awesome, and his love of children certainly shows in his kid photos. He also has done some very fine images of the marathon, and created numerous beautiful slide shows. Ray still prefers to shoot slides

Arnold Kaplan

Our Judge tonight has been presenting, judging and critiquing at New England Camera Clubs and Councils for more than 35 years. He has presented over four hundred color slide presentation from coast to coast, including a half dozen all day photo-seminars. He is one of the founding fathers of Yankee Photographic Society and was their first program chairman. He joined the Boston Camera Club and the South Shore Camera Club in the early 1960’s and became a member of the Cape Cod Viewfinders in 1978, after he retired and moved to Cape Cod. He is the author of the famous yellow covered Vermont photo guide book, “How To Find and Photograph The Photo-Scenics In Vermont”.

Jake Mosser

     Jake Mosser is a serious amateur and semi-professional who has been obsessed with photography for the past 30 years. He has earned top photographic honors from the Photographic Society, the New England Camera Club Counsel and the Greater Lynn Photographic Association for both his skills with the camera and his efforts on behalf of the photographic community. Jake is most at home in the field with camera in hand, but he finds great satisfaction in teaching the techniques and vision he has learned through experience and the kindness of other sharing photographers.

Susan Mosser

     Susan Mosser has been involved in photography at the organizational level since 1978. She is the long-standing chairman of the Greater Lynn International, America’s and possible the world’s largest single division PSA approved color slide exhibition. She has served as program chairman for the Photographic Society of America, the New England Camera Club Counsel, Yankee Photographic Society and the Greater Lynn Photographic Association and been President of all except PSA. For her dedication to photographic organizations and for her success behind the camera Susan has been awarded a "Fellowship" in the Photographic Society of America and been made an "honorary" member of the New England Camera Club Counsel. Susan has organized and led photo-safaris to Africa and across North America. Her eye for an image has earned her four stars as an exhibitor in PSA color and nature slide exhibitions.

Shiv Verma, MNEC

A photographer, educator and technologist.

He has been photographing since he was a teenager but with the advent of digital he has evolved his photography to express his intense devotion to wildlife and nature. Since 2003 Shiv has been capturing images exclusively in the digital realm and over the years has earned numerous awards and recognition both nationally and internationally.

“I think of photography as art – represented by the vision of the photographer. Photography gives me the ability to express and to communicate ideas that cannot be expressed in words.”

He 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 belongs to multiple photographic clubs and associations and serves as Vice-Chair Nature Division, PSA; Director of the slide instructional and essay sets, PSA; Vice President of the Digital Circuit NECCC. Shiv is a past President of the Stony Brook Camera Club; and the Gateway Camera Club.

Henry Weisenburger

     Henry Weisenburger has been involved in photography for over 50 years. He has numerous letters after his name, such as APSA (Associate, Photo Society of America) indicative of the recognition he has received in his photographic pursuits. Mass Camera Naturalists, Photographic Historical Society of New England, and Yankee Photographic Society all claim Henry as one of their charter members, and he is also a member of Boston Camera club and Sudbury Valley Nature Photographers. Henry has taught over 60 educational seminars and courses, been a star rated PSA member for over 50 years, a commentator, lecturer, photography instructor, exhibitor and judge. With a background in Aerospace Engineering, Henry also brings his technical expertise to his photography avocation, skillfully fixing things that go wrong, and creating all sorts of gadgets that assist him and others in creating beautiful images.

Bob Yankee

     Bob Yankee lives in Franklin, Ma. He has taught photography for many years in the Franklin Adult Education Program. He was a founding member of the Stony Brook Camera Club, where he maintains his membership. Bob has also been very active in NECCC serving as President and Equipment Director. We have had the pleasure of Bob’s thoughtful commentary for our competitions during the past three years, and he has judged at other clubs throughout New England. He also has twice judged the photography exhibition at the Chatham Center for the Creative Arts.
     Bob and his wife Loretta enjoy trips to the outer Cape where he creates stunning images of sea, sky, sand, light and shadows so beautifully inherent to this area. He will be with us on October 21 to judge our 2nd slide competition.

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