Tracey Clark

With a modest arsenal of Canon equipment, a bounty of intuition and her self-proclaimed obsession with natural light, Tracey has spent over 15 years as a professional photographer and takes great pleasure in capturing the kind of images that remind us that life is beautiful. She appreciates good composition, authenticity, a cool ocean breeze and her 50mm Compact Macro lens.

Tracey is the founder of Shutter Sisters and her blog and can be reached at .

Paige Balcer

Paige is a graphic designer turned professional photographer living in Omaha, Nebraska. She started Paige B. Photography in the winter of '08 and is looking forward to another successful year in 2009. Paige and her husband John enjoy frequent trips to visit friends in Chicago, where they lived before moving to Omaha. Paige loves dark chocolate, argyle socks, the Paper Source and any good book. She can often be found taking pictures of her cat Roxy, a common subject on her blog Look Away. You can reach Paige at .

Irene Nam

Irene is a writer, mother of two who loves instant photography. When her husband gave her her first Polaroid camera as a Christmas present, she had no idea that the little experiment would soon become a source of inspiration, an opportunity to see and express things differently and that she would enjoy it so much. Irene now navigates a happy balance between working on her photography business, playing dominos with her twin sons, and strapping on a backpack full of film and crawling all over her native Paris shooting Polaroid photos. You can see more of her work on her site irenenam.com. You can reach her at  

sarah-ji

Sarah-Ji i finds hope in our unfinishedness as human beings. Transformative friendships are what sustain and inspire her on the journey. She aspires to use her camera as an instrument to build solidarity, infuse love, magnify joy, generate friendships and make peace. She currently resides in Chicago, where she is a free-lance photographer who documents the movement building work of the diverse social justice activist community in her city. She also makes empanadas, stays up way too late and prefers to drink cortados or tequila. She photoblogs at sarah-ji.com or you can reach her at .

Jen Lemen

Jen Lemen realized she was a photographer on the fertile fields of Rwanda where little girls tugged at her skirt and old women stood solemnly waiting for their portrait to be taken. This experience--revealing joy and wisdom in unexpected places--shapes every shot Jen takes with her trusty Canon Rebel, whether she's gazing at flowers along the street where she lives in Silver Spring, Maryland or telling stories about sage souls from near and faraway lands. You can read more about Jen's creative adventures at jenlemen.com.

Stephanie Roberts

Stephanie Roberts is often found behind her Nikon and iMac composing images, digital videos, and audio podcasts. For the past twelve years, she's been powering an interactive design and communications firm. Now she pursues fine art and documentary photography and crafts digital documentaries for her clients. Stephanie lives on a cattle farm with her family where she sculpts natural light, thinks deep, avoids ironing and enjoys watching the grass grow. You can follow her thoughts and images at LittlePurpleCow Photography. You can reach her at .

Meredith Winn

Meredith is mostly a writer, but has found herself having a love affair with photography. She currently lives in Austin, Texas, and spends a big majority of her time daydreaming of the coast. She writes of life (and such dreams) on her blog the~spirit~of~the~river. Meredith gathers light and true spirit on her photography website and is also a contributing photographer for Getty Images. She drinks chai tea, parents mindfully, embraces this human existence, and will always be a camera shy momma. She can be reached at .

Kristin Zecchinelli

Kristin Zecchinelli is a proud momma, living on the coast of Maine with her three children, hubby and one fat chocolate lab. She is a tragic knitter, avid blogger, and admitted sun worshipper and "flareoholic". She thrives on finding beauty in her everyday. She likes collecting treasures with her children, DnD iced coffee, and a big pot of garlicky mussels. You can often find her pointing her Nikon straight at the sun, and yes, there is lots of sand in her camera bag. Kristin can be found on her blog maine momma or reached at.

Alessandra Cave

Alessandra Cave is a photographer and film producer with a 'gypsy' heart. She loves color, sunshine, afternoon naps, redwoods, small villages, long walks, and she never (ever!) says “no” to dark chocolate or an invitation to travel. She blogs about her gypsy lifestyle at Gypsy Girls Guide and she shares her adventures in Photography at AlessandraCave.com. She can be reached at .

Chris Sneddon

Chris Sneddon has loved photography forever but didn’t truly catch the shutter bug until after her now teen-aged son was born. Since then, she’s gotten herself a reputation for stopping the car on a dime and hopping out to capture the perfect shot. A lover of natural light and all things Canon, Chris believes that everyone brings their own medicine to this world and that photography is hers. She blogs at Everyday Heartbeats , and she can be reached at .

Xanthe Berkeley

From shooting 35mm in school, learning to process and develop, falling in love with Polaroid at college and a glorious affair with lomo in the 90‘s - taking photos has always been part of Xanthe’s life, it’s now her addiction.. She has a camera with her all the time, capturing the beauty in everyday moments. Embracing the journey to transform her love and hobby to a vocation.. A lover of bright colours and sunshine - along with sand between her toes, things served generously during her 5 years living in Asia. Now living in London with her two boys and partner, Xanthe enjoys sitting around the campfire, growing beautiful things in the garden and singing along to music compiled by her boys. You can follow her photographic musings on flickr or her photo blog.

Kim Klassen

Kim is an artist turned crazy passionate photographer, living in a tiny Canadian town with her family and sweet love Ben, their Goldendoodle doggy. She’s crazy about her life; basking in the quiet solitude of her studio as she creates daily. Until recently her creative passion was painting. Then one day after a life changing event, her quiet little Nikon called to her. She will never forget their first true connection; a simple trip to the trail with camera in hand....wow...what a rush. Kim now combines her art and photography, creating painted textures for photo enhancement. It’s a perfect combination of digital and ‘get messy’ creativity. She shares photography tips, tricks and techniques at Kim Klassen Café.

Tammy Lee Bradley

Tammy is a Kitchen & Bath Designer by day, photographer and creativity cheerleader by night. Wife to Chris, mom to three beautiful young men, and feeder of five spoiled pooches. She loves freckles and fur, playing the pedal harp and Irish concertina, losing herself behind the lens of her Nikon D90, airboating, reading and stalking the bright colors and gorgeous sun flare that South Florida provides. You can find her collaborating throughout the photographic community, cheering like a Proud Mama from the sidelines of Mortal Muses, a photographic collaborative that she originally founded, and blogging at Bliss and Folly. .

andrea corrona jenkins

Andrea is one part photographer, one part writer, one part modern dancer and one hundred parts mama. She lives with her spectacularly bearded husband and two children in Portland, Oregon in a little house filled with too many collections and probably too many legos. She's convinced life would stink without the following: polaroid cameras, bicycles with baskets, old school photobooths, underground hip hop, vintage everything and lemon sugar anything. Andrea writes the Covet column for UPPERCASE magazine, which also features her polaroid photography. You can find more of her work over at hula seventy. She can be reached at  hula70@comcast.net.