Fotos, Fiddles, & Felines

Clare Yuille is the owner of Merry + Bright, an award-winning fashion and gifts boutique in the Scottish Borders. She’s also the founder of Indie Retail Academy, the site for creative people who want to sell their work to shops. She's been called "a fresh, funny, endlessly encouraging voice" with a "spot-on understanding of the doubts and fears of creative people."

Clare Yuille is the owner of Merry + Bright, an award-winning fashion and gifts boutique in the Scottish Borders. She’s also the founder of Indie Retail Academy, the site for creative people who want to sell their work to shops. She's been called "a fresh, funny, endlessly encouraging voice" with a "spot-on understanding of the doubts and fears of creative people."

Troy Colby is an award-winning fine art photographer who creates poetic, dreamlike, and often haunting images. He has said that photography is “a chance to create a reality that is not real.”
Troy was born and raised in a small rural farming community. The rural American landscape has been the backdrop that has helped Troy refine his vision. In the past few years he has worked with his son to create handcrafted worlds. Together they have found a love of recreating dreams and haunting emotions.
Troy holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and is currently working on his MFA. His work has been seen in Black and White Magazine, Plates to Pixels, F-Stop, Adore Noir Magazine, and galleries from Miami to Portland. Troy is a 2015 Critical Mass finalist.

Troy Colby is an award-winning fine art photographer who creates poetic, dreamlike, and often haunting images. He has said that photography is “a chance to create a reality that is not real.”
Troy was born and raised in a small rural farming community. The rural American landscape has been the backdrop that has helped Troy refine his vision. In the past few years he has worked with his son to create handcrafted worlds. Together they have found a love of recreating dreams and haunting emotions.
Troy holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and is currently working on his MFA. His work has been seen in Black and White Magazine, Plates to Pixels, F-Stop, Adore Noir Magazine, and galleries from Miami to Portland. Troy is a 2015 Critical Mass finalist.

Dr. Brenda Scott has returned from her adventures in Scotland. This trip was part of her work on her next photography exhibit about connections between North Carolina and Scotland - connections beginning in the 18th century. This is her update from Edinburgh, Skye, South Uist, Barra, and Oban.

Echo is a small online advertising company with a reach that far exceeds its size. It treats its clients as guests and offers a totally customizable menu of services that cover the full spectrum of your personal and business needs, from website creation, Google AdWords, and SEO, to branding and social media marketing. Elizabeth earned a liberal arts degree from Duke University and worked her way to the upper echelons of an international web design and online marketing company in only three years, before starting Echo Online Advertising. She loves languages and can communicate in at least four. She is an artist and musician in her own right, and at Echo Online Advertising she brings together her technical know-how, marketing savvy, and her love of the written word, the visual arts, and music.

Called a “Modern Master” by The Strad, Dr. Peter Askim is a composer, conductor, bassist, and educator. He is the Artistic Director of the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the conductor of the Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Director of Orchestral Activities at North Carolina State University. Previously Music Director and Composer-in-Residence of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, he has had commissions and performances from the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony, and the International Society of Bassists, just to name a few.

Called a “Modern Master” by The Strad, Dr. Peter Askim is a composer, conductor, bassist, and educator. He is the Artistic Director of the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the conductor of the Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Director of Orchestral Activities at North Carolina State University. Previously Music Director and Composer-in-Residence of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, he has had commissions and performances from the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony, and the International Society of Bassists, just to name a few.

Dr. Brenda Scott is working on her next photography exhibit about connections between North Carolina and Scotland - connections beginning in the 18th century. She is currently doing research and photography work in the UK. This is her update from London and Oxford.

Cissy Spindler began photographing seriously in 1980 on the streets of San Francisco with an old Rolleiflex. Since then her life has been dedicated to photography. That evolved to medium format work focusing on intimate landscapes.

Her work was first exhibited in a San Francisco gallery, Grapestake, in 1983 in a group show featuring emerging California photographers. From 1984 through 2005 she owned and operated Spindler Photographic Services, a custom black and white lab in San Francisco. This afforded her the opportunity to meet and work with some of the finest photographers in the USA.
She now lives on the central coast of California. She teaches photography at the Academy of Art University of San Francisco in the online program.

David Spindler has been practicing and teaching photography for quite some time. He has been with the Academy since 1997. His personal work has been in numerous group shows and publications throughout the years, including Black & White magazine.

The bulk of his life in photography has been spent helping other photographers realize their vision as a second pair of hands and eyes. He owned and operated Spindler Photographic Services in San Francisco from 1984-2005. There he had the good fortune to work with many of the most creative and exciting photographers during that time, both commercial and fine art based.

He says that his biggest asset as an instructor is his ability to help other photographers and students of photography develop and pursue their own creative paths by encouraging them to continue questioning and exploring the visual medium.