Dave Weathers
Discovering his passion for the visual arts at a young age,by becoming high school film student, he won numerous state and national awards for his diverse films ranging from Drama to Animation. This recognition led to a motion picture scholarship to attend UCLA film school, one of the highest regarded film schools in the nation.

After graduation Dave went to work for Marvel Studio contributing his visual skills and story telling abilities to projects such as “Transformers”, “Muppet Babies”, and Spiderman. Within 3 years of graduating from UCLA, Dave was managing an editorial department of 53 editors.

From Marvel he went on to an Emmy award winning career as a supervising Sound editor, television academy governor, and entrepreneur. Daves most recent business, before Timbuktu Studios, was Miles o Fun Sound which he grew from one employee to 85 employee’s and 13 million in Revenue. Miles o Fun was sold to Technicolor is 2001. Where Dave became president of Sound services ,animation, and Interactive.

With always a love for photography in the back of Dave’s mind he set out to start a business to bring the art of photography to people. With the influx of digital camera and imaging there has evolved a need for education and preservation of these images. Providing the resource will be the next chapter of Dave’s life…

Suzette Troche-Stapp
A photographer since the age of sixteen, Suzette Troche-Stapp a.k.a "the glitterguru" has been working in digital imaging since its inception in the 1980's. In 1995 she co-founded the web-design firm Red Channel Interactive, one of the first Los Angeles web design firms, which was widely acclaimed for its visual and technically ground breaking original content. Recognized throughout her industry, Suzette was named one of the "Top 40 Photoshop Experts" by graphics tablet manufacturer Wacom, and was also awarded the "Guru Award" for excellence in Photoshop by NAPP. For 2 years in a row this glitterguru has been nominated for the "Photoshop Hall Of Fame".

Currently her images can be seen in the national ad campaign for Dynalite, and many editorial beauty and fashion features. Her celebrity images have been broadcast to millions on shows like "The View", "The Late Show", and "Kathy Griffin's Life on the D-List"... In addition to her photographic work, the glitterguru is also an author, an internationally exhibited artist, a  two time nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame and one of Wacom's Top 40 Photoshop Experts.  This multi award winning photographers tutorials and articles have been published in many magazines, both in the US and overseas for over a decade. As author of, "The glitterguru on Photoshop: from Concept to Cool" Suzette honored with the coveted Designers Bookshelf Award for "Most Exciting New Photoshop Book" and is now published in three languages. Many of the glitterguru's images can also be seen in the new book "Digital Fashion Photography" alongside those of Patrick De Warren, Enrique Badulescu and many other world-renowned fashion photographers.

Books:
 "The glitterguru on Photoshop: from Concept to Cool" New Riders Publishing - Author
"Digital Fashion Photography" Thomson Publishing- Contributor

Vincent Versace

Best selling author of "Welcome to Oz: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop". A three time nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame and a recipient of a Smithsonian Award for innovation in Media Arts & Entertainment and the Shellenberg Fine Art award. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History. Vincent is the photographer of Immediate Assistants Medical Rescue Go team and one of the members of the photographic team of Eco-Challenge. He has been commissioned by the San Francisco Presidio National Park to create a permanent collection of art for the park. He is an American Photo Magazine Mentor Trek instructor and a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team teaching regularly at Photoshop World and the Santa Fe and Palm Beach Photographic Workshops and the host of the Epson Print Articles about his work in conjunction with digital workflows have appeared in American Photo, Popular Photography, Shutterbug, Petersen's Photographic, PC Camera, Studio Design and Photography Professional Photographer and Digital Imaging magazines. On the weekends he is a part time superhero and short-order cook.

Richard E. Aaron
Armed with a heat seeking eye, degrees in Fine Arts, and precise instincts, photographer Richard E. Aaron's professional talents offer us an insider's look into the world of music -- rock, blues, jazz, funk, reggae - you name it.

In the midst of the rock 'n' roll circus, Aaron had a ringside seat when he lived next door to New York City's top recording studios. In his remarkable career he has captured the thunder of rock's foot stomping with explosive images of Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Van Halen, Carlos Santana, Ted Nugent, Prince, the Sex Pistols, Rory Gallagher, Bob Marley, B.B. King -- his stable of images is phenomenal.

Fueled by adrenaline, Richard E. Aaron is always ready to mix it up with work in feature films, posters, video and other media. Currently he is a globetrotting freelance photographer for six record labels.