Ambassadors Team
Alyn Wallace is an astro, landscape, and timelapse photographer based near the Brecon Beacons National Park in South Wales.
"I'm often found enjoying the incredible views atop the Welsh mountains and my photography aims to capture the landscape looking its most scenic and stunning. I'm fortunate to live in the country with the highest percentage area of its land protected against light pollution and I'll jump on any opportunity to enjoy a night under the stars."
Royce Bair has been a professional magazine and illustrative advertising photographer for three decades. He also finds satisfaction helping other photographers achieve their vision through his writings, international lectures, and workshops. Royce was one the early innovators to focus on a new style of night photography some call “nightscapes,” or starry night skies with a foreground landscape feature. His unique astro-landscapes have received worldwide syndication through The Huffington Post, and he is the author of the book, “Milky Way NightScapes.”
Alex is an astrophotographer and time-lapse artist based out of Breckenridge, Colorado. He found photography in high school and started working for the local newspaper at the age of 16. He loves being outdoors, skiing, backpacking... etc.
Name: Richard Tatti
Country: Australia
Peter Zelinka is a nomadic nature photographer originally from Northeast Ohio. As an avid hiker and backpacker, Peter spent most his free time exploring the forests of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. After spending countless hours hiking with a point-and-shoot camera, Peter eventually became more interested in photography. In June 2014 he purchased his first DSLR - a Nikon D7100. He spent the next few years practicing macro, wildlife, astro, and long exposure photography.
Name: Hudson Henry
Country: United States
Hudson’s passion for creating dramatic still and motion imagery is infectious. In addition to his adventure, travel and expedition field work, a growing list of commercial clients rely on Hudson’s unique ability to produce stunning, ultra-high-resolution work in the most demanding of locations and conditions. Panoramic merger composites, 360 degree images, and time-lapse video are all long-time technical specialties. Underwater photography and video work are Hudson's most recent endeavors.
Hudson is also a teacher and a people person. He spends a great deal of time writing articles, producing teaching videos and designing training programs to help fellow visual artists not just increase their technical skills shooting and editing, but also to develop their own distinct creative vision. Hudson finds this time coaching other photographers incredibly rewarding.
Country: Germany
For almost 20 years, Florian does mountaineering in combination with the highest level of photography, Astrophotography. There is no mountain or region that’s to high to reach for him. As a technician he always looks for high build quality with his gear and also is very critical when it comes to function and testing.
"I`m a Welness-Photographer, because working underneath that beautiful and breathtaking tent of stars gives me my personal wellness. In my opinion, every human being would have to stay a few hours at a dark place in a clear sky night…that would change the world a lot. I want to thank you the MSM Rotator Team to provide us this good and extreme lightweight tool to capture extrem long exposures and creating stunning pictures!"
Country: United States
Country: Leicestershire. UK
After 30 years as a professional press photographer and college tutor, Glen set up running Digital Photography Courses in 2010. Initially this was just beginner’s courses but this grew organically to a range of over 30 course aimed at all levels from the complete novice to professional photographers.
Glen has always been interested in the stars and astronomy but tended to stick with Milky Way landscapes until purchasing the MSM last year. The extra detail available from the longer exposures prompted a new range of Astrophotography Courses being run over Zoom due to the pandemic. His passion is showing students how to get the best results with amateur equipment.
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Country: United States
I’m Beth Ruggiero York and am passionate about photography.
I love teaching other photographers how to use today’s advanced cameras to photograph both day and night, as well as experiencing the quiet beauty of night photography in the field. Through my workshops, books, seminars, and one-on-one custom instruction, I can guide you through this learning process.
For me photography is a hobby and a passion that brings me closer to the nature and its miracles. By taking photos, I've seen places I probably wouldn't have seen otherwise, for which I'm very grateful.
Photographing the Milky Way has always fascinated me.
Photographing and editing the Milky Way fascinated me so much that I wrote an online course (in German) about it.
Since you never stop learning, I always try to improve myself.
Hi, My name is John Nardacci. I am an US Photographer and Graphic Designer based out of Western Massachusetts. I love being outdoors exploring, hiking, rollerblading, and of course shooting and my favorite subject, the night sky. I have been shooting nightscapes for about four years now and seeing the Milky Way in the back of the camera while out shooting never gets old!
Country: Italy
Mauro is a professional landscape photographer. Born in Naples, Italy, Nature has become his greatest source of inspiration, so much so as to increase the desire to represent it and share it through his eyes.
“What excites me most is night photography. I love to represent the beauty of our planet with that of the universe through "astro-landscape" shots.
Country: Australia
Country: United States
Au fil des années j'ai pu approfondir mes connaissances et améliorer la qualité des mes photographies.
I research and teach new methods for processing astrophotographs from a single editing program. I have also developed an extension software for Photoshop: Art Panel, to streamline the workflow as well as give more power to objects in the night sky.
Abián San Gil is a professional full-time landscape photographer based in Canary Islands (Spain).
He loves exploring the islands where he was born to capture their beauty. Traveling and being in the mountains is his passion.
Javier is a profesional landscape and astro photographer based in Madrid, Spain.
Okan Bozat is a landscape astrophotographer who was born and raised in a city called Muğla, in Turkey. He has studied Architecture at the Izmir University of Economics, pursues architecture as his career. After he graduates from university, his passion for photography, mostly in astrophotography, put him into another path as well. His deep interest in nature, night skies and traveling makes him find himself into some of the darkest places with unique landscapes around the world.
I have always been amazed by the night sky, and going camping often has led me to experiment with astrophotography and shooting the night sky. I love outdoor activities like camping, hiking, climbing, scrambling and just exploring new places in general! I also just love taking time out to appreciate the world around me.
I am an astro, landscape and nature photographer originally from South Wales, now living in Kristiansand, Norway. After a twenty year career teaching adventure and extreme sports, I have now turned to my passion of photography. With a deep love of the coast, you will often find me scouring the beautiful rocky Norwegian shorelines for beautiful coastal astrophotography compositions. When the weather plays nicely I find I am blessed with some of the darkest skies in Europe.
Burak is a passionate landscape and astrophotographer who was born and raised in a northern German City called Osnabrück. My Parents are originally from Turkey, so I grew up multilingual and with the best of both cultures. I have a bachelor´s degree in business administration in Healthcare.
“Photography makes me forget everyday life and gives me the feeling of freedom. With the MSM Rotator I have a lightweight expert tool, that allows me to take high quality and fascinating night shots.”
Country: Morocco
Brahim is a travel photographer and content creator from Morocco. Have traveled to some of the stunning landscapes around the world for a long time. His photos shared in so many places.
"Milkyway photography makes me know the real beauty of nature."
He aspires to share knowledge and thoughts about photography on the platform that he believes in.
“I am a landscape and aspiring Astrophotographer from San Diego, CA. I originally started working weddings and events for photography. I have always been a huge outdoor enthusiast but three years ago I started climbing which really made me fall in love with landscapes, as the climbing always took me to these new beautiful places.
Astrophotography has fast become my favorite. It has been a steep learning curve but with the help of others and a ton of research I have learned quite a bit and am just now gaining enough knowledge to pass onto others. I look forward to my future adventures, but even more I look forward to passing on what I learn and know to others!”
“I started to photograph since I was child but only in 2017/2018 I decided to dedicate my life to Landscape Photography in its entirety. Mountainscape, Seascape, Cityscape and Nightscape ... and also a little bit of Wildlife. My goal is to impress people who see my photos and explain curiosity about my pics so people can get passionate to photography too."
“Jonny Hill is a British adventure and landscape photographer based in Utah, USA. Growing up in England gave him a passion for landscape photography at a young age, which has grown exponentially since moving to the Southwest United states."
Country: Chile
Thomas Puzia is a passionate hobby astrophotographer, time-lapse photographer and drone pilot based in Santiago de Chile. In his young years, he worked as a sports and event photographer for a newspaper in Europe and then decided to study physics, math, and medicine and became a professional astronomer, leading today one of the largest research groups in astronomy in Chile.”
“As an observational astronomer I'm often found at the major observatories in the north of Chile collecting very old photons under (still) dark skies. Since low-noise detectors became affordable in commercial digital cameras, I took up my old profession as a hobby and like to take pictures of the incredibly rich and diverse Southern skies.”
Name: Tan Nguyen
Country: US
State: Missouri
Tan Nguyen is a professional videographer that picked up astrophotography during the 2020 pandemic. He combines his passion for story telling and astrophotography through videos on tiktok and youtube.
"If skies are clear, ill be chasing the milky way or looking through my telescope."
Name: Manuel Wagner
Country:Deutschland
Manuel Wagner ist ein Astro- und Landschaftsfotograf aus der Region Pfälzer Wald.
" Die Fotografie ist für mich ein wichtiger Part meiner Work-Life-Balance, durch sie entfliehe ich aus meinem Alltag. Sie hilft mir, meinen eigenen Fokus zu setzen, die Welt aus anderen Perspektiven zu entdecken und das Verborgene sichtbar zu machen. Das Zusammenspiel zwischen faktenbasierten Tiefgang und Detailfreude gepaart mit Kreativität und Kunst, gerade in der Astrofotografie, fasziniert mich jedes Mal aufs Neue.
Meine Heimatregion, der Pfälzer Wald ist ein absoluter Geheimtipp für Fotografen. Durch seine einzigartigen Wetterbedingungen erlebt man häufig Nebel in den Tälern in einem der größten zusammenhängenden Waldgebiete Deutschlands. Hoch über dem Nebelmeer ist der Ausblick von den rund 140 Felsmassiven aus 250 Millionen Jahre alten Sandsteinfelsen unbeschreiblich. Ihre bizarren Formen und die oftmals darauf wachsenden Wetterkiefern eignen sich besonders, einmalige Bilder entstehen zu lassen."
Country: Italy
Country: US
Mike Pach, owner of 3 Peaks Photography & Design, in Colorado Springs, CO
is an internationally known, award-winning photographer, speaker and author
with more than 35 years of experience in photography. He is the founder of
the Colorado Photography Learning Group and has been teaching photography
and Photoshop classes since 2007. Mike is the author of Colorado Springs
Then and Now, and he conducts night-sky photography workshops. He loves
spending nights in the Colorado mountains under dark skies.
Country: Italy
Pierandrea is a landscape photographer living in south Italy, Lecce, in
love with the night sky. As astrophotographer achieved important high
results in many internationals contests, with 1st place in night amateur
section of the 8th FAPA.
"I'm Pierandrea Folle and I am an italian landscape and nightscape
photographer. I'm focused on nightscape and astrophotography because I
really love to spend my night's free time shooting the beauty of the sky. I
live in a town close to the sea, which is Lecce, also known as the tip of
the heel of the Italian boot, and of course I love seascapes too. I'm a
good explorer, and when possible i fly to new destinations trying to
realize always different images. Hope you enjoy my shoot. Good light
everyone!"
Name: Marc Rassel
Country: United States
Marc Rassel is an astrolandscape photographer, workshop leader, and instructor based in Minnesota, USA.
"I pride myself on having the ability to reach all students where they are in their photography journey. I not only bring participants to locations of epic landscapes and some of the best dark skies in the world but take the highly complex nature of astrolandscape photography down to simple, easy-to-understand steps. I am able to provide a wealth of regional knowledge and in-depth instruction to areas, landscapes, and processing techniques necessary to produce stunning images. Sometimes partnering with fellow photographers or content experts, I can ensure advancement in students’ depth of knowledge through small groups, meticulously planned experiences, and personalized instruction."
Name: Javier Rosano
Country: Spain
Javier Rosano is a night photographer based in Madrid, Spain, capturing the beauty of the night sky since 2010. He helps others to advance in night photography through workshops, online courses, an e-book, and a dedicated night photography podcast.
