Richard Bennett is a past National President, a Master of Photography, a Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography and is a past chairman of the Australian Professional Photography Awards. With a professional career spanning over 40 years, Richard has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Nikon-Kodak Australian Press Photographer of the Year Award for the best sports photograph with his images of the 1998 Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race tragedy and in 2006 the Gold Tripod the Photo Imaging Council of Australias highest award. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his promotion of Tasmania through his photography.

Rob Blakers  Wild Tasmania

Rob Blakers has been photographing wilderness in Tasmania, the Australian mainland and the USA for over thirty years.His landscape photography and wilderness photography reflect the fragile beauty of wilderness as seen through the eyes and camera of one who knows it in a way that few people today ever will. Rob's photography portrays iconic Tasmanian wilderness landscapes such as the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, the Walls of Jerusalem National Park and Freycinet National Park. However many of his images are from wild and natural places that remain unprotected, including the remote rainforest wilderness of the Tarkine and threatened oldgrowth forests of the Weld, Florentine and Styx valleys. It is hoped that public appreciation of such places and the prospects for their secure reservation might be thereby enhanced.

Chris Bell  "The Apparent and the Abstract": Nature

IA passionate naturalist, Chris has been photographing wild places and wild things for over 30 years.  He is a deeply committed conservationist and was a founding member of both Australia�s Wilderness Society and the Tasmanian National Parks Association.  He has had 4 books published of his photography and writing, the most recent being Primal Places Tasmania.

�It is crucial we re-establish our reverence of Nature and regain an understanding of its workings if there is to be any future for humanity. I want to present beauty as a worth in itself, and for that beauty to act as a conduit to a new affirmation with the natural world which we so desperately need to establish.�

 Andy Chisholm  Fluid Tasmania

Andrew evolved into professional surf photography through travelling the State on surfing adventures with big wave riders James Polonowski and Andrew Campbell. Once experiencing the exhilaration of Shipstern Bluff it was not long until Andrew wanted to capture the amazing feat endured by his mates and which has since been of captivating interest to surfing enthusiasts worldwide. Andrew has the fortune of traveling extensively to many great surfing locations throughout Australia and overseas including Indonesia and Hawaii. Images from Andrew�s travels have been widely published in surfing and lifestyle magazines worldwide, with his most notable achievement being a regular photographer for renowned Australian Surfing Life magazine.

Dan Giselsson   Flora & Fauna