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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.
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