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Bob Winsett
Colorado native, Bob Winsett, has been a freelance photographer since leaving the ski business behind 13 years ago. Cllients include AT&T, Continental Airlines, Vail Resorts and a variety of national and regional publications. He is represented by Index Stock Imagery, Corbis, and StockNewport. For inquiries email Bob at: bwinsett@earthlink.net

Kate Thompsen
Kate has traveled extensively in the Western US, Central America, and Asia. Most of her sojourns involved guiding on whitewater rivers and working as a Geologist and Photographer. She settled on a full-time photography career shortly after she traveled into Asia in 1999, and spent time with the nomadic horsemen of western Mongolia. Upon returning to the States, she met her future husband, also a photographer, and settled in Dolores, Colorado. In her formative years as a photographer, she mentored with National Geographic photographers such as David Edwards, Dugald Bremner, and Bill Hatcher. She shoots professionally for magazines and clients such as National Geographic Adventure, Patagonia, MontBell, and Outdoor Retailer.

Margy Dudley
Photography in any of its forms, fine art, commercial, documentary or personal, is a medium which can elicit many powerful emotions and messages with an image. I have been in love with photography all of my life and have spent many days in the darkroom. I continued to study photography through my time at Wheaton College and then afterwards at the Silvermine Academy of the Arts. Many of you may have experienced the magic of watching a print in the developer come to life capturing a moment in time that only existed briefly and will never be repeated exactly the same way again.

This passion for photography is what inspired me to create the Open Shutter Gallery with which the support of other community members and photographers has become an extremely exciting journey. New and interesting ideas flow through this space constantly and my mission with the Gallery is to serve the community by both showing the work of local photographers as well as bringing in new and interesting work from around the world.

Although there are many subjects to photograph right at home, photography also inspires many people to travel and document other cultures, and in doing so learning more about them and creating human connections. This summer I was fortunate enough to travel with my family in China for six weeks and during that time live with farmers in the terraced rice fields for a week. All of the images from this trip were taken with a Nikon 5 meggapixel camera and printed on an Epson 1280 printer. The real advantage to bringing a digital camera along when travelling is that the local people get to see themselves on the camera’s small screen and they get very excited, so this became a real icebreaker and they were very happy to have us take lots of pictures. In light of all the economic and power struggles that are going on today, it is interesting to make connections with people on the other side of the planet. margy@openshuttergallery.com