Super Session Series

Tim Grey

Tim Grey is a highly respected educator in photography and digital imaging, offering clear guidance on complex subjects through his writing and speaking.

Tim has written eighteen books on a variety of subjects related to photography, has published over two hundred training courses, and has hundreds of articles published in some of the top magazines in the industry.

For more than twenty years Tim has been answering questions from photographers in his daily Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter. He teaches through hands-on workshops and presents at a variety of events around the world.

You can learn more about Tim’s various projects at timgreyphoto.com.

Brenda Tharp

Brenda is a professional photographer and educator with a life-long wanderlust for exploring and photographing.

She began her career in photography in 1985. Her photographs have appeared on the pages of Sierra Club Magazine and Calendar, Audubon, National Geographic Books, Michelin Travel Guides, Nature Conservancy, Traveler, and many more.

She has received high commendations for her work in Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Expressions Magazine Photo Competition (NANPA). Brenda is the author/photographer of two books, her most recent Expressive Nature Photography (Monacelli Press), and she co-authored Extraordinary Everyday Photography (Penguin-Random House) with Jed Manwaring.

For three years, she was a judge for the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by renowned English photographer Charlie Waite. Brenda loves to share this passion for photograph with others, and teaches workshops and leads photo tours internationally.

Tim Timmis

Tim is a retired Chemical Engineer with his passion being wildlife photography. He has been an active wildlife photographer since 2005. With living close to Galveston, TX, he specializes in shorebird photography using a ground pod to get eye level with the birds. Tim has also made multiple photography trips to Yellowstone in winter, Lake Clark in Alaska for coastal brown bears and Churchill in Canada for polar bear photography.

Tim started taking slow motion videos using his Canon R3 mirrorless camera during his 2022 trip to Alaska. Capturing a coastal brown bear opening clams with her claws in slow motion is amazing. He won honorable mention for one of his slow-motion videos in the 2024 Audubon Photo Contest and had two videos selected in the top 15 videos for the 2023 Audubon Photo Contest. Tim has also led bird photography workshops and fieldtrips at Galveston’s FeatherFest since 2011.

Visit www.timtimmis.com to see some of his photos. He also has a blog at www.timtimmisblog.com.