• I am a nature photographer, specializing in Landscapes. I have been involved with Photography for over 45 years. I have taught 100's of youth photography as well as several Road Scholar Groups.  I have been teaching at Furman Olli for the past eight years and Clemson Olli for the past three years.
   
• My long range goal is to photograph all 63 National Parks in the US.  To date, I have completed 46.
   
• I have developed my own Web Site, where I have posted a lot of training materials as well as a gallery of my images. (www.bobspalding.net)
   
• One major area of my website is a listing of places to photograph in the area (http://www.bobspalding.net/Photography/photoareas0.
   
• I am currently member of Carolina Nature Photo Association (Board Member), Photography Association of America,  the Clemson Photography Club and the Spartanburg Photo Guild.
   
• My camera of choice is the Canon Mirrorless System

For a full bio, see Bob Spalding.

Bob Spalding

• .I began my interest in photography as a teenager. Later in years my interest grew with experience.
   
• As my professional life progressed, I lived and traveled in seven different states and had the opportunity to visit the middle east and the Mediterranean Islands.
   
• I retired in 2002 and moved back to Greenville after living in New Jersey for 35 years. During those years I participated in the Ocean County Camera Club.
   
• After returning to Greenville, I purchased my first digital camera to enter the world of digital photography. I now use Nikon D800 and D810 cameras. I have attended various workshops on landscape photography.
   
• I have been teaching photography at OLLI/Furman with Bob and Mike for the last 8 years and enjoy helping others how to improve their photography.
   
• I am currently member of Carolina Nature Photo Association  and  the Photography Association of America,

John Bryant

• I have been involved in Photography in one way or another since my early teens. I progressed
  to processing my own color prints and slides till I moved to live overseas in Africa, in my mid-
  twenties, living in Zambia and Sierra for 10 years and Australia for 6 years.
   

• I continued to shoot landscape and travel most of my adult life. When I retired seven years ago, I took up photography more seriously and have progressed beyond landscapes and travel and progressed to where I have been assisting Bob and John with OLLI and CNPA classes.
   

• My camera of choice is Sony Mirrorless.
   

• I am currently member of Carolina Nature Photo Association  the Photography Association of America and the Spartanburg Photo Guild.

As an avid photographer since 1964, I am focused primarily in landscape, street and nature photography. My first camera was an Exakta VX1000 35mm. I photographed with Leica, Nikon, Mamiya Sekor, Olympus and Sony film and digital cameras. Currently, I use an Olympus Pen-F and Sony 6700 digital cameras.

Over the years I learned both black and white and color darkroom processing. I also taught black and white film darkroom at the college level and on my own. During the past 50 years I taught photography at both the academic and private institution levels. At OLLI I taught 6 photography classes since 2021.

With at least one camera in hand, I traveled much of the world. Forty-three countries and all 50 states to be exact. My passion is to capture people, their environments, landscapes, and animals as photographic subjects. My photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Time, Lake Living, Arizona Highways, and Friends of Lake Keowee magazines.

I am a member of the Carolina Nature Photographers Association (CNPA), The Aperture Foundation, and the World Photography Association.

Bob Buurman