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This episode of LensFlareLive is brought to you by NatureScapes.Net and your host Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, panelists Greg Downing, EJ Peiker and special guest Christoper Dodds 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.

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Christopher Dodds is a full-time freelance nature photographer, teacher and lecturer specializing in birds. Many of his images have been published in world-class publications including: National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer Canada, Bird Conservation(American Bird Conservancy) to name just a few. You have probably seen some of his work locally in Quebec Oiseaux Magazine.

Chris first discovered his love of the great Canadian outdoors during family and boy scout camping, and canoe and backpacking trips, after moving to Canada from England when he was eight. By the time he was fourteen, Chris thrilled at freezing fleeting glimpses of birds and the resulting ability to study every detail of their intricate beauty. Chris’ passion for photography has taken several paths through the years; photojournalism, studio portraiture, commercial and wedding photography to name just a few. He apprenticed in color and black and white chemical darkrooms, but today embraces the computerized, digital work-flow. Chris is passionate about capturing images of nature in an artistic, yet technically perfect, manner.

Today Chris travels to some of the best locations in the world photographing, and teaching nature photography workshops, and he is a popular lecturer. His images are collected and regularly published. You can get more information about Chis 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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