2008 PSNZ Northern Regional Convention
Howick camera club will be hosting the 2008 over the weekend 17-19 October 2008 in Howick Auckland
Keynote speakers will include:
  • Peter Walton
  • Sheldon Muller
  • Shaun Barnett
  • Michael Schneider
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Peter Walton
When the digital revolution arrived in the early 90's Peter was the first Australian photographer to offer stock images on CD, and one of the first to have a stock photography website.

Over the years he has photographed several coffee table books. These include “Tasmania”,“ Red Centre”, “Landscape Australia”, now in its second printing, and the recently reprinted Reader's Digest book “Australia's Most Scenic Drives”. To photograph it Peter and his wife Margaret drove almost 100,000 kilometres around Australia.

His love affair with photography rem ains as strong as ever. As well marketing his stock image library www.australianscenics.com he continues to photograph around Australia and has plans for more overseas assignments.
Shelton Muller
Shelton Muller has been in the photographic industry since he was seventeen and has worked as a professional photographer since 1987. His clients include some of Australia’s largest corporations and publications.

In 1996 his career began a new path when he became the editor of what became Australia’s highest circulation photographic magazine, PhotoMaster. Since then he has become publisher and editor of his own publication, Total Image and Better Pictures magazines, which com bine to form Australia’s highest circulation photographic magazine. He has also served as editor for other photographic magzines and is also honoured to be asked to write for other photographic publications both in Australia and overseas.

His weekly photography podcast, Shutters Inc is among the internet’s most highly rated and has drawn thousands of listeners from around the world.

Shelton lectures regularly and also enjoys leading international photographic tours and workshops overseas. He has done so in Egypt, Vietnam, Peru, China, Cambodia and Argentina. His passion for photography remains after 25 years with a camera in hand.

http://www.photographybyshelton.com
Shaun Barnett.
"Making a Living from Nature, Outdoor & Travel Photography."
Shaun is a freelance writer and photographer and one on New Zealand’s most respected tramping authors.
He has an extensive academic, photographic and outdoors C/V. Précising his CV - He is a previous Editor of New Zealand Wilderness Magazine. From Sep 1993 to Aug 1996, he was Conservation Officer, Wild Animal Management, Department of Conservation, Hamilton.
Currently he is Editor of the Federated Mountain Clubs bulletin. He is the author of numerous books with particular reference to the outdoors and natural New Zealand.
He has had over 450 articles published in popular magazines including NZ Geographic, GEO Australasia, Action Asia (Hong Kong), Forest & Bird, The Listener, North and South, and NZ Wilderness. Most articles have focused on conservation, outdoors people, history, travel or tramping.
Michael Schneider
Starting out in a commercial E6 photographic lab and then moving on as an assistant to a commercial photographer, Michael learnt the trade by working in such areas as product, architectural, corporate and public relations photography.
Moving out as a freelance photographer, where a passion for wildlife and nature developed into a decade of natural history work for the NZ Geographic Magazine focusing on close-up and technically challenging projects.
With a desire to incorporate studio quality lighting, and to put the viewer eye-to-eye with the subject in its natural environm ent; Michael developed specialist one-off flash lighting systems for macro and close up photography which gave performance and flexibility not available with any commercial systems.
Now fully digital and mainly doing commercial work, the DIY spirit is far from dead. Challenges from commercial and personal projects, now keep his creative spirit alive.
Post Convension Workshops
Shelton Muller is running two one day workshops for $250 per day. One day will be Wedding Photography and the other will be a Creative Flash workshop.
For more information email Colin Tyler at ctyler@slingshot.co.nz.
The workshops will be run on the Monday and Tuesday after the convention