Lake Erie Living 2008 Photo Contest
ABOUT THE JUDGES:
Lake Erie Living 2008 Photography Contest Judges
Ian Adams
Ian Adams is an environmental photographer based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, specializing in natural, rural, historical, and garden photography. Each year, Adams drives more than 15,000 miles across at least 20 states in search of new images of gardens, natural areas, historic barns and mills, covered bridges, lighthouses, fishing villages, rural scenes, and historic sites for books, regional and national magazines, calendars, posters, and postcards. His latest book project, Our First Family’s Home: The Ohio Governor’s Residence & Heritage Garden, will be released in June.
In addition, Adams has conducted more than 130 workshops and seminars throughout North America in nature, garden photography, and digital photography, and shares his images through slide programs on a variety of environmental topics.
Eric Seals
Eric Seals is a staff photographer for the Detroit Free Press. Some of the local, national and international news events he has photographed during his career as a photojournalist include the Bill Clinton and George W Bush presidential campaigns; the Iraq War; the Israeli/Palestinian conflict; California earthquakes; Florida wildfires; and hurricanes in North and South Carolina. Most recently, Seals traveled to Beijing, China, to cover the 2008 Olympics.
Seals has won numerous state and national awards including the Michigan Press Photographers Association’s Barry Edmonds Understanding Award, and the Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence for a six-part series called “Homicide in Detroit: Echoes of Violence.”
Art Weber
Art Weber is the director of the National Center for Nature Photography—the only facility in the country totally dedicated to nature photography. The Center, located in Secor Metropark in the Toledo area, celebrates the beauty of nature through photographs on display and through a large number of programs, workshops, and travel opportunities. Weber leads programs that are designed to help participants improve their photographic skills and to learn about nature at the same time.
Weber has been writing about and shooting photos of nature and outdoor subjects for more than 35 years, winning well over 150 prestigious international, national, regional, and state-wide professional awards along the way. For nearly ten years, he’s written a weekly nature column for The Mirror Newspapers based in Maumee, and is travel editor for the Toledo Free Press. In addition, he’s written two nationally recognized books, “Wild Ohio” and “Guide to Ohio State Parks.”
