Bobbi Lane, a commercial photographer based in Fairfield County, Connecticut, specializes in creative portraits, travel and stock photography. She is available for assignments from agencies, design firms and magazines both local and nationally. Lane's multi-faceted approach to photography combines over 25 years of technical experience with her innovative artistic interpretation.

Bobbi has exhibited her fine art work on Native American Pow Wows and Sensual Flowers in Los Angeles, New York City, and Ridgefield, CT. She has won awards for both her commercial work and fine art work in regional and national competitions. As a teacher on the regional, national, and international level, she brings insight and enthusiasm to her classes, inspiring hundreds of students each year. Her excellent rapport and open communication with her students stimulates creative thinking, while her straight-forward teaching style motivates photographers of many different skill levels.

Bobbi teaches for some of the leading photographic educational centers around the country including: The Santa Fe Workshops, The Maine Workshops, the Julia Dean Photo Workshops and the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City. She is also a contributing editor to Photo Techniques magazine, and has written many articles on lighting, portraits, and color for the publication.

Creative Techniques for Color Photography, an informative how-to book written and photographed by Bobbi Lane is published by Amherst Media.

Lois Greenfield is both famously and uniquely adept at capturing the vibrancy and joy of dance. Part choreographer, part photographer, she does more than seize dancers in motion in her images—they seem to define the essence of movement itself.

When she started taking photographs during the late 1960s, her dream was to be a National Geographic photographer. After graduating from Brandeis University in 1970, she started freelancing for Boston’s counter cultural newspapers, photographing everything from maximum security prisons to rock concerts.

She had majored in anthropology and filmmaking, but having never studied photography, learned as she went along. By the time she moved back to New York City in 1973, the modern and postmodern dance world was exploding in NY at the time and she was able to get regular work at The Village Voice, The New York Times, Dance Magazine and other periodicals. In this experimental environment, not only did she master the technique of photographing modern dance, but also found herself very intrigued by the subject matter.

The fruits of her collaboration with Daniel Ezralow, Dave Parsons and Ashley Roland, as well as other dancers and companies was Breaking Bounds, her first monograph published by Thames and Hudson and Chronicle Books in 1992. In her latest book, Airborne, she explores the metaphoric potential of bodies in flight.

Charles Reid is an artist, teacher and author known around the world. He has authored eight books on painting which are directed toward students at all levels. His use of beautiful clean color and his capture of light create a look of freshness and spontaneity that immediately grab your senses and bring you into his work.

He was born in Cambridge, NY and studied at the University of Vermont and the Arts Student league in New York. He is a member of many prestigious organizations including the National Academy and the National Watercolor Society where he has won numerous awards. He is represented by the Munson Gallery in Chatham, MA and Santa Fe and the Stremmel Gallery in Reno, NV

Despite her extensive film and theatre credits, Julia Cameron is best known for her hugely successful works on creativity. The Artist's Way has sold over two million copies worldwide, and her follow-up bestsellers The Vein of Gold, Finding Water and The Right to Write are are taught in universities, churches, and centers throughout the world.

Credited with having founded a new human potential movement which has enabled millions of people to realize their creative dreams, Cameron eschews the title "creativity expert," preferring to describe herself simply as an "artist" saying, "Artists have always mentored, I just do it on a wider scale."

Citing creativity as an authentic spiritual path, Cameron's work has been embraced by such diverse spiritual groups as Buddhists, Sufis, Roman Catholics and Church of Religious Science and Unity with "quite a few British Wiccans thrown in." Cameron recently published the long-awaited sequel to The Artist's Way entitled Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity. She also recently published her memoir, Floor Sample.

Watercolor Online is dedicated to the promotion of all forms of watercolor and the artists who create works in the various media encompassed by this broad classification. On their website, you can view works in acrylic, gouache, transparent watercolor, tempera, and various other water based paint.

Copious information is presented which is designed to enlighten and aid the aqua media artist. They also have individual artists' galleries, workshop listings, discussion forums, exhibitions, an online store for watercolor products, an extensive linked list of of art museums and galleries from around the world, and much more.

The Center for Nonviolent Communication is global organization helping people connect compassionately with themselves and one another through Nonviolent Communication language, espoused by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) helps connect us with what is alive in ourselves and in others moment-to-moment, with what we or others could do to make life more wonderful, with an awareness of what gets in the way of natural giving and receiving.

CNVC's vision is a world where all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully. In this vision, people are using Nonviolent Communication to create and participate in networks of worldwide life-serving systems in economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping.

Marshall Rosenberg is an author of many best-selling books, including Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion, Raising Children Compassionately: Parenting the Nonviolent Communication Way, and Speak Peace in a World of Conflict.