I have just confirmed 4 of the six speakers for the Banff International Photographers Symposium. Trevor & Faye Yerbury www.yerburyseminars.com/index.html , Martin Grahame-Dunn www.theimagefile.com/web/martingrahamedunn and Juli Cialone www.cialonephoto.com have been confirmed. Two more will be announced shortly. I am negotiations with two hotels in Banff and the location will be finalized soon. So stay tuned as this is looking to be a great event.

Two days in and busy

Well i am working on the newletter and have been talking to photographers about presentations. I have aproached Bob Kirst and Parish Kohanim and am just waiting to hear back about dates they may be available. Hopefully something positive soon. Watch the blog as this will be the first place new speakers will be announced. Hope everyone is having a good new year so far.

Well I've been doing a lot of reading, catching up on all the photo magazines I have backlogged. So much inspiration in these images and words. I am looking forward to a great 2009 and excited to have Dave Montizambert coming in. There were a number of articles by him in a variety of magazines and I know he do a great presentatin. It should be a lot of fun.

Starting to refine the CIFP

Well as we enter the New Year I am finally fondong the time to really concentrate on what I want the CIFP to become. Hopefully this direction will benifit photographers in and around Calgary. As usual, any feed back or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Look forward to seeing and hearing from all of you who are interested.