Staff & Instructors
Your Instructors, Joe, Kevin, Laurie & Moose
Moose
Peterson
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Moose Peterson is a wildlife photographer who manages to get himself involved
in a whole lot more than just wildlife photography! Beginning in 1981,
he literally took apart Nikon gear in search of photographic answers to
the problems he faced in photographing California's endangered wildlife.
He hasn't stopped shooting or taking things apart since!
Moose switched to a fulltime digital shooter in June 2000 because of
the quality and capabilities he found in the D1. Within a year's time,
he had filed over 40GB of original digital wildlife images captured
with the D1, D1x and D1H. To date he has over 3.1TB of original digital
image (his files containing over 1.2 million images). It's this day to
day experience of shooting with D2Xs, D2Hs, D200, Nikon lenses and in
the design & development
of everything needed for post work, that he presents at Digital Landscape
Workshop Series!
Moose's honors run the gamot of photography. Named a Nikon Legend Behind
the Lens, Lexar Elite Photographer, PS
World Dreamteam are just a few. His 1998 John Muir Conservation Award and
his becoming a Research Associate with the Endangered Species Recovery
Program he consideres his top honors.
Moose Peterson - Wildlife Research
Photography
Moose Peterson's Gallery
Joe McNally
 Joe
McNally shoots
assignments for magazines, ad agencies, & graphic design firms. Clients
include Sports Illustrated , ESPN Magazine , National Geographic, Life,
Time, Fortune, New York Magazine, GEO, Golf Digest , Discover , Men’s
Journal , New York Stock Exchange, Target, Sony, GE, Nikon, Lehman Brothers, & PNC
Bank. In addition to having been a recipient of the Alfred Eisenstaedt
Award for outstanding magazine photography, McNally has been honored numerous
times by several of the following: Communication Arts, Applied Arts, Photo
District News, Pictures of the Year, The World Press Photo Foundation,
The Art Directors’ Club, American Photo, and Graphis. Joe’s
teaching credentials include: the Eddie Adams Workshop, the National Geographic
Masters of Contemporary Photography, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Smithsonian
Institute Masters of Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, Maine
Photo Workshops, Department of Defense Worldwide Military Workshops, and
the Disney Institute. He has also worked on numerous “Day in the
Life” projects. One of McNally’s most notable large scale projects, “Faces
of Ground Zero - Giant Polaroid Collection”, has become known as
one of the most primary and significant artistic responses to the tragedy
at the World Trade Center. Joe was described by American Photo magazine
as “perhaps the most versatile photojournalist working today” and
was listed as one of the 100 most important people in photography. In January
1999, Kodak and Photo District News honored Joe by inducting him into their
Legends Online archive. In 2001, Nikon Inc. bestowed upon him a similar
honor when he was placed on their website’s prestigious list of photographers
noted as “Legends Behind the Lens”.
Laurie Excell
 Laurie
Excell shares her passion for wildlife and the wonders of nature through her
photography. She has been photographing for nearly all her life but turned
it into a full time career in 2000. Since that time her images have been showcased
in galleries and magazines in the Pacific Northwest, Audubon calendars, postcards,
Camping Life Magazine, Amtrak publications, the BT Journal and Outdoor Photography
Magazine (UK) to name a few. Her images can also be viewed on her website.
Laurie has been a part of the DLWS team from the beginning, helping both
staff and participants to have the best DLWS experience possible. With 28
years of photographic equipment sales background and as many years photographing,
Laurie shares her expertise in all aspects of photography, from the technical
workings of the camera to creative composition and exposure suggestions, she
willingly shares her knowledge and enthusiasm for nature and photography with
an eager audience at each and every DLWS. In addition to traveling, teaching
and photographing all the beauty nature has to offer, Laurie has also turned
her vast experience in selling photographic equipment into a business called EquipmentLady.com.
Kevin Dobler
 Moose & I have
been shooting together for over a decade, from birds to sheep to bears to
floating ANWR. While I’m a published photographer and have a wildlife
fine art business, wildlife photography for me is in many ways like you,
a passionate hobby. I’m here to help YOU take all that’s being
taught and put it into action. I was inspired and have shot with one of the
best in the business for along time and luckily, some of it has rubbed off
and I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to pay it back by helping
you!
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