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bio When planning out our first issue, we wrote down the names of people we really wanted in our first issue. Scott Bourne was someone we really wanted, his amazing photography, particularly his bird photography is breathtak- ing. Plus being avid podcast listeners, we reg- ularly tuned in to Scott from those early days on TWIP which he co-founded with Alex Lind- sey and Ron Brinkman to more recently with Marco Larousse at photopodcasts.com. Be- fore we interview Scott we wanted to share his bio... Scott Bourne is an Olympus Visionary (for North America,) a professional photographer, author and lecturer. He’s been involved with photography for more than four decades and is an internationally-recognized thought lead- er and artist. His work has appeared in more than 200 publications and he’s received hun- dreds of industry awards for his photography. Scott’s led workshops and seminars, taught for or spoken at conferences or events spon- sored by Palm Beach Photographic Center, Cooperative Communicators of America, The National Association of Photoshop Pro- fessionals, CreativeLive.com, Lynda.com, the National Association of Broadcasters, North American Music Merchants, MacWorld, Washington Professional Photographers As- sociation, WPPI, PartnerCon, PPA, Seattle Art Center, Marketing Essentials International, The Consumer Electronics Show and Olympic Mountain School of Photography. Scott was one of the first photographers ever to receive the designation Apple Certified Professional Trainer (T3) for Apple’s Aper- ture. He’s also previously held the designation Certified Adobe Photoshop Instructor. He was one of the first photographers in the country to receive the Professional Photographers of America’s Certified Professional Photogra- pher designation and also holds the Master Photographer designation awarded by the Washington Professional Photographers As- sociation. Huffington Post recently named Scott to the top 30 most socially influential photographers on the web. Website Maga- zine named Scott one of the 100 most influ- ential people in the history of the World Wide Web. Scott’s business acumen and marketing skills have landed him on the boards of directors or advisors for dozens of media companies and Internet startups, as well as several large pho- tographic-related businesses. Scott is also a past Dean of Marketing at Skip Cohen Uni- versity. He is the co-founder of TWIP and founder of Photofocus, two of the longest-running pho- tography related sites on the Web. His newest venture is the Photo Podcast Network (www. photopodcasts.com) which hosts free month- ly podcasts. Scott was named one of the most influen- tial photographers on the Web by Huffington Post. Scott is the author of nine photography books and has spoken or taught at every ma- jor photography related trade show or confer- ence in the United States. 7