January SPS Club Meeting

January's theme is Open: Enter your best work on any subject, however, all images must have been exposed within the past 12 months (this is not a "Vintage" competition).

Our guest speaker and judge will be Mark Alberhasky (http://www.imagema.com/blog/).

Mark picked up a camera in college. His motivation: To make a good photo of a young woman. The irony: He fell in love with both woman and photography.

Fast forward 30 years. Several decades into a career as a physician, Mark had cause to pick up a camera once again. Trading his view into a microscope as a pathologist for that of a NIkon F100 viewfinder proved to be irresistible. In 2001 a windsurfing shot made off the coast of Venezuela was published in the US and Europe, a spark that ignited his dormant photographic interests. Fortunately his rekindled passion not only touched him, but his family and an ever increasing circle of friends and acquaintances until one of those connections led to recognition from Nikon. In 2004 Nikon began using Mark’s images in their advertising and later that year featured his work in Nikon World magazine. His experience as a medical educator and speaker made a transition to digital photo educator a natural outcome. In 2006 he became a mentor for the Nikon sponsored Pop Photo Worldwide Destination Trek Series. His work has won international awards, attracted clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Lowepro and DxO Software, and found placements in commercial installations, stock agencies (Science Faction and Alamy), and private collections.

You can view some of Mark's outstanding images here (http://www.imagema.com/).