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John Munro -
I am an advanced amateur photographer with a keen interest in landscape and travel photography.
I developed an interest in photography through my military service, education, and employment.
I earned B.A. and Masters degrees in Geography/Cartography and Urban Planning. Prior to
attending university I was in the USAF for five years stationed in the USA and Europe. The time
spent in the USAF spawned a travel bug that remains with me to this day. After attending
university I went to work with the U.S. Geological Survey as a cartographer making topographic
maps. In my early career I traveled throughout the western United States on mapping jobs doing
preliminary feature identification and topographic surveying. I also traveled to Saudi Arabia to
make and edit a small-scale map of the region. During my career I was a topographic map editor,
designed special (thematic) topographic maps, supervised different mapping operations, and was
a mapping program manager. I became interested in photography while in the USAF, and the late
1960s purchased a Minolta SRT-101 with multiple lenses. I spent the next 30 years trying to
learn how to make correct exposures but never progressed much beyond that point. Approaching
retirement I was faced with the age old retiree's question - what am going to do when I retire? I
decided to expand my passion and learn how to compose and make better images that attempt to
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Joanne Munro -
I am also an amateur photographer who used photography as a method of documenting my
travels. I have a BA degree in Geography and a Paralegal certificate. In the 1970s I purchased a
Minolta SRT-101and lenses after my first trip to Mexico. Since then I have traveled to Egypt
three times, Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, Ireland, Israel, and the United Kingdom documenting
my travels. Also a retired federal employee, I left federal service in 2006 after serving with the
U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. My principal interests are
photographing patterns in the natural and man-made world, and architectural details. |