BSOP Instructor Bios

Bruce is a professional event, wedding and portrait photographer. Bruce focuses primarily on wedding and event photography but also enjoys portrait and commercial photography. In addition to running his photography business, Moments in Digital Photography, Bruce is also the Director of Content for the popular website and podcast This Week in Photo with Frederick Van Johnson.

Chris is the former president of the Professional Photographer's of Canada and has been a professional photographer for three decades. Chris holds the designations of "Master of Photographic Arts" and "Honorary Lifetime Member" by the PPOC. Chris has won numerous awards for his work including being a finalist for the Alberta and Canadian Portrait Photographer of the Year. Imagine That Photographics is the name of the photography company that Chris has built and you can check out his work and services through his web site.

Dan grew up in Dewberry, Alberta. Dan's photography career started when he and his science teacher started a photography class when Dan was in grade 9. They taught darkroom techniques and processing to grades 7 and up. Dan continued doing this until he finished high school. He was also the yearbook photographer.

After finishing high school, Dan was a TV camera man for five years doing studio and on location news work. In the mid-nineties, he moved to Edmonton to be a color dark room technician, working in sales and printing professional photographer's competition work. Since then, and for the last twenty years, he has been working for Technicare Imaging, working with Photoshop and digital lab large format printers.

He is a self taught photographer and has been doing family portraiture, commercial photography and weddings for forty years. He joined the Profession Photographers of Canada in 1997 and received his Craftsman and Masters designations with accreditations in Image Manipulation and Fine Art. He has also judged image competitions for PPOC Alberta and Metro College.

He has expanded his knowledge experimenting with many different aspects of photography and has taken a special interest in Night Photography.
Dan Nelson Portrait Design is the name of the photography company that Dan has built and you can check out his work and services through his web site.

Born in Newcastle upon Tyne England, David emigrated with his parents to Edmonton, Alberta Canada in 1952. David obtained a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Alberta in 1971. In 2007, after a 39-year career in the insurance industry, David turned his attention to photography as an art form. David has studied extensively at Edmonton’s Metro College. In January 2011, David obtained accreditation in the scenic category with the Professional Photographers of Canada.

Although David’s focus is landscape photography, he is also exploring photography as contemporary art. His goal is to create innovative and high impact images.

David is resident in Edmonton, Alberta and spends much of his time photographing in and around Jasper and Banff.

Greg enjoys nature, photography and travel. He combines these passions to create wildlife images from around the world. Armed with a large format printer and a workshop, Greg prints and frames his own work. He leads photography groups to Southern France, Kenya and Alaska. Greg says “I’m either taking pictures, editing pictures, treating, stretching and framing canvases”. See more of Greg’s amazing photography at Harvey Wildlife Photography

In 1982, Rocco Macri began Macri Photography in Edmonton, Alberta. Macri Photography is now located on a beautiful acreage minutes east of Edmonton. His full-range of photography includes: architecture, aerial photography, food and dining, concerts, extravagant nature photographs, portraits, and precise commercial, industry, and business photographs.
Rocco Macri’s photography has garnered him numerous awards:

• 2013 Pixoto members voted two of Rocco Macri’s images as top 20% in the Landscape category.
  
• 2001 Fuji Professional Portrait Outstanding Achievement
  
• 1998 Professional Photographers of Canada Loan Collection Travel Image
  
• 1995 Kodak Professional Gallery Award for Architecture
  
• 1995 Master of Photographic Arts (MPA) NOTE: Few photographers achieve this degree in the course of their career.
  
• 1995 Alberta Professional Photographers Association (APPA) Commercial Photographer of the Year

"Andrew is a professional photographer based in Edmonton. After many years of enjoying photography as a hobby and taking landscapes of his journeys to Europe, Australia, and South America he started formally learning the art of photography in 2011 at Grant MacEwan and continued on through the Burwell School of Photography and in various video and drone courses.

He started his photographic journey by shooting local events including weddings and birthdays.

He has focused primarily on architecture and landscape photography, videography, and drone video. This is complemented by a growing base of business portrait, school portrait, wedding, and family photography.

Andrew currently shoots for local home builders, real estate agents and also works with commercial agents. 

Awards: His photo, Bobbleheads won the Visual Arts Alberta Association and CARFAC "People's Choice Award “in 2013.

• You may find more of his work at Andrewshawphotography.com or on Instagram at Andrew.shaw.photography"