Finals

Nicholas Samaras
              Nicholas Samaras is different from other photographers of today because he specializes in underwater photography.He captures the beauty of life underwater with marine animals as well as people swimming and diving.  His career began in 2006 in an international underwater photography competition. Winning this competition proved his talent in this style of photography. In 2008 Nicholas presented his work in an exhibition titled "Soulfly". Many of his work has been seen in famous magazines such as National Geographic.

Joe McNally
          Joe McNally was born in 1952 and was involved with National Geographic since 1987 and Life Magazine from 1994 1998. The most famous of his work is "Faces of Ground Zero" which is a series of portraits of heroes from September 11th. The 246 photos in this series were presented in seven cities and seen by almost a million people. It was also raised approximately 2 million dollars for 9/11 relief efforts. Another story he published on National Geographic was "The Future of Flying " which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight.

Jerry Uelsman
          Jerry Uelsman is a master of creating an image made from multiple photographs. What makes him an amazing photographer is that his techniques are similar to using Phiotoshop but he made his work way before Photoshop was created. Using multiple negatives he is able to create a final photograph of, for example one of his pieces of work is a boat floating over a lake. In the time when he made his work a photograph was considered undeniable so when people saw an unbelievable photograph there were always amazed. His photographs were seen in a number of museums like The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London