Tom and I are excited to share the news -- we have been invited to continue as OM SYSTEM Ambassadors! This is a continuation of our prior roles as Olympus Educators (note that now we are all known as OM SYSTEM Ambassadors). Tom and I are honored to be included in this group of amazingly talented photographers!
Tom and I are excited that we will be representing OM Digital Solutions (formerly Olympus cameras) as OM SYSTEM Ambassadors!
"Lisa and Tom are photographic artists and workshop leaders who love to share their passion with others. They love photographing almost every subject, but are especially drawn to night photography, light painting, urban exploration, nature photography, and creative photography. Their photography allows them to pay attention to the details, to be mindful, and to appreciate all of the beauty and nuances of our world."
Please note that while Tom and I are OMDS ambassadors
and we occasionally offer a workshop specialized for OM SYSTEM users, that
ANYONE is welcome on our workshops and we have people come on our workshops with smart phones, film cameras and every make and model of dSLR, point-n-shoot, large format, and mirrorless camera out there.
Our Olympus/OMDS journey. I first was exposed to the amazing Live Composite feature while leading a night photography workshop in the Fall of 2016. One of our participants was able to SEE the night scene developing DURING the exposure. I immediately inquired about the EM1 Olympus camera features and was impressed with many features, but especially the computational technologies. I went home from the workshop and researched and saw that an EM1 mark ii was coming out and I ordered one. Tom and I were Canon for decades, and I tried Sony and Tom tried Fuji, but we both preferred our Canon dSLRs. Upon purchasing the EM1 mark ii the Canon was not making it out of the camera bag anymore. Tom tried mine and we switched to Olympus in 2016 too.
Then Tom and I went to Cuba and we only brought our Olympus system, which really rocked with the image stabilization, live time, and much lesser weight and footprint. At that time we still thought that we would use the Olympus for macro, night, street, travel, landscape and that we might keep our Canon for birds (we each had a 500mm f4 lens). One month after going to Cuba we went to Florida, bringing our Canon and Olympus systems. We were going to use the Olympus the first day and then compare to using the Canon the next day and so forth. Well, the Canon never ever made it out of the hotel room, so we came home from Florida and sold all of our camera gear and purchased all Olympus. We have never looked back! The ability to easily handhold (and without teleconverter) fast 600mm FFE and now 1000mm FFE lenses is a big deal for our bird and wildlife photography!!
Serendipitously, I was presenting a program to a camera club in Pennsylvania and the leader of the Olympus camera club contacted me and asked me to give the same program for them (they had a lunchtime camera club at Olympus). The person who contacted me did not ask or know what camera we were using. At the end of the presentation he said "You should be an ambassador for Olympus" and introduced me to a couple of people. Now I should add to this that I was never one to get into the whole "Canon versus Nikon" debate, it was six of one and a half dozen of the other type of debate. But Tom and I found ourselves organically discussing all of the virtues of the Olympus system. The system can just do things, like focus stacking in-camera, pro-capture, LiveTim, LiveND, Live Composite, etc. that other cameras simply cannot do. and now we have the new OM1 camera and to say the new OM-1 and its computational photography features are incredible is an understatement! The new AI detection AF for birds, mammals, etc. is so much faster than the already outstanding Olympus OM-D E-M1x and this is due to the amazing processing power that was packed into this new body.
We look forward to sharing what OM SYSTEM cameras can help us create thanks to their brilliant computational photography features and AI detection AF, among other things.
Thank you to all of my followers (and to Get Olympus/OMDS). Stay tuned for future exciting content and announcements in 2022!
Below, please enjoy our favorite 21 from 2021. That is, our favorite 21 Birds in Flight, Birds, Flowers, Nature and Non-Nature photographs from 2021-- all taken with our Olympus/OM System cameras and lenses!
