Speakers Forum

Russ Burden

Russ is the owner of Russ Burden Nature Photo Tours and runs workshops around the country to the best locations at the times they appear in their utmost glory. He also does stock work that is sold through Photo Library; these often show up in magazines and advertisements around the world. Russ’ website may be found at http://www.russburdenphotography.com

Russ teaches classes of all levels for the Panasonic Digital Photo Academy in addition to writing all the curriculums for the national program. Russ has been published numerous times in Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, and Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic. He writes a weekly Photo Tip and a monthly Photoshop column for Take Great Pictures.com. He has two books to his credit.

Russ is a multiple time winner of the prestigious Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice Award in the Art In Nature category in addition to the Backyard Habitat category. He also won Highly Commended honors in a number of other categories. As a result, his images have appeared in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

Glenn Randall

Since 1979, Glenn Randall has combined his love of wilderness with a passion for photography.  His intimate knowledge of atmospheric optics, weather and the landscapes he photographs allows him to find the intersections of magical light and stunning subject matter that produce exceptional images.

His work has been published in Audubon, Avalanche, Barnes & Noble, Brown Trout, Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy and Runner’s World calendars and in Audubon, GEO, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, SKI, Los Angeles Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure,  New York Times Magazine, and many others.  Prints of his fine-art landscape photographs can be found in several Colorado galleries, including Art Mart in Boulder, The Canyon Gallery in Montrose and Grizzly Creek Gallery in Georgetown.

His photographs have also been used in books published by Falcon Press, Lyons & Burford, New Readers Press, Reader’s Digest General Books and Scribner’s.  His corporate clients include Avago Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Colorado Outward Bound, Cobe Laboratories (owner of over 100 prints) and many outdoor-equipment companies.

At age 54, he has accumulated over 1,000 photo credits, including 67 covers, and sold over 10,000 prints.  He was the sole photographer for two books of landscape photographs, Rocky Mountain National Park Impressions and Colorado Wild & Beautiful, both published by Farcountry Press.  He teaches landscape photography workshops through the Rocky Mountain Nature Association and Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.  For more information, please visit www.glennrandall.com.