This episode of LensFlareLive is brought to you by NatureScapes.Net and your host Dave Warner. I had a lightning strike on some equipment, which caused me to use the backup audio recording that is made on the Blog Talk Radio platform. So, please bear with the poorer audio quality! In this week’s episode, panelists Greg Downing, EJ Peiker and special guest Tim Grey cover everything from camera gear to bird blinds. In addition, they answer questions that came in via email, Twitter and from the live listening audience.
Tim Grey is regarded as one of the top educators in digital photography and imaging, offering clear guidance on complex subjects through his writing and speaking. He loves learning as much as he possibly can about digital imaging, and he loves sharing that information even more.
Tim’s work combines several of his greatest passions: technology, teaching, photography, writing, and travel. All of these have been part of his life in some way for as long as he can remember, and became a major focus starting in high school. He has been focused on digital photography and imaging for over 10 years. You can get more information about Tim by visiting his website.
Greg Downing is a professional nature photographer specializing in birds. He has been traveling the world teaching professional and amateur photographers for more than a decade hosting workshops and seminars.
As an internationally recognized photographer, Greg’s numerous publishing credits include books, advertising campaigns and editorial publications such as Birding Magazine, Outdoor Photographer Magazine, Birder’s World, National Geographic and many others.
He is currently the Publisher for the online nature photography magazine; NatureScapes.Net, which was created as an exchange for nature photographers.
EJ Peiker is a professional freelance Nature Photographer. He was born in 1960 in Augsburg, Germany in the German state of Bavaria near the Alps. His family moved to Mansfield, Ohio, in 1969 right before his 9th birthday. He became a citizen of the United States of America in 1975 and lived in Ohio until 1979 when he began attending Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
His original goal was to attend the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs but after his distance vision deteriorated late in high school, it precluded him from becoming an Air Force Pilot, EJ followed plan B which was set in motion when he inherited his grandfathers electronics workbench several years earlier. At Purdue, EJ earned a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering and also completed graduate studies in Microelectronics and Semiconductor Physics. For nearly 27 years, he worked for the Intel Corporation in California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Arizona where EJ was engaged in the production of the microprocessors, chip-sets, and communication chips that power modern Personal Computers, Workstations, File Servers, Super Computers and the Internet.
Since 1994, EJ has lived in the south-central Arizona city of Chandler, a suburb southeast of Phoenix in the Sonoran Desert. He has two sons, Nicholas (20) and Gregory (15). Nick is currently attending Arizona State University in Tempe and is in the W.P. Carey Finance program. Greg is in High School. EJ has formally studied photography at the University of New Mexico, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, and participated in photography seminars and workshops led by several renowned photographers including John Shaw, Arthur Morris, John and Barbara Gerlach, Charles Glatzer and the Nikon Corporation.
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