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David Cardinal Biography
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David Cardinal is a veteran travel and nature photographer who specializes in Southern Africa and Southeast Asia as well as North American mammals and birds. His images of creatures in the wild help communicate the importance of our natural heritage and our responsibility to preserve it. David's clients include non-profit and socially responsible institutions such as the BBC, California State Parks Foundation, the City of Palo Alto, San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, Bay Trails, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, US Fish & Wildlife Service, NANPA, Bay Nature and Western Birding and National Geographic Kids magazines. David's work is part of the permanent exhibit at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Center and has been featured in exhibitions at the Palo Alto Civic Center, the Seipp, Works and Allegro galleries, the Watsonville Wetlands Nature Center, on calparks.org, and on portolavalley.net. David is co-author with Moose Peterson of The D1 Generation, and has had his articles and images appear in publications including Outdoor Photographer, Studio Photography & Design, Photoshop User, PC Magazine and Dr Dobbs Journal. |
David leads a limited number of wildlife and nature photo safaris, through cardinalphoto.com
David is the founder of Pro Shooters, which produces the award winning DigitalPro for Windows--software for organizing and managing your digital images--and nikondigital.org, the leading information website for serious digital shooters-with over 100,000 unique visitors each month-as well as DigitalPro Shooter, a leading bi-monthly newsletter for digital photographers with over 15,000 readers. David's background also includes many years of technical consulting on topics ranging from digital image management to color digital imaging for both Fortune 500 companies and the US Government.
You can learn more about David and his photography at http://www.cardinalphoto.com, and about DigitalPro at http://www.proshooters.com.
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| Links to Selected PC Magazine Articles online |
Spring Cleaning for Your PC, March 2009 and May 2009 Issue Infrared Digital Photography, December, 2008 Make something new with your old Digital Camera, October, 2008 Photoshop Editing Expert Tips, June and July 2008 Tips for better Point & Shoot Photography, April 2008 Securing your e-Mail & Instant Messaging, March, 2008 Adding Items to Outlook Automatically, February, 2008 New Features for Long Documents in Microsoft Word, October, 2007 Note Taking Goes to the Next Level, June, 2007 Location, Location, Location November, 2005 Make Your Photos Great!, March, 2005 Landscape Candid Photos in the RAW Troubleshooting Your Images Sports Digital Photography Travel Tips June, 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge Preview, October, 2005 Everyday Photography Cool Camera Projects, May, 2004 Beyond Point-and-Shoot, August, 2002 Architecture, March, 2005 Vista Tip: Readyboost, March, 2007 IE7 Tip: IE Without Add-Ons, March 2007 Vista Tip: Raw Images, March, 2007 Converting to a D-SLR, PC Magazine, Thailand |
Articles online about David Cardinal |
Portola Valley photographer David Cardinal shares his 'World Views' in exhibition, The Almanac, April 4, 2007 Tech-savvy Photographer, ECM Blog, April 2008 Not just another pretty bird, The Almanc, April 25, 2007 Where the Buffalo Roam, Palo Alto Weekly, March, 2006 Destinations: Shooting wildlife with a camera, The Almanac, June 29, 2005 Nature's Inspirations features local artists, The Almanac, October 4, 2006 Preserving Parkland with a Camera, California State Parks Parklands Magazine, August 8, 2003 |
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David is on the board of Pictopia, Inc Cardinal Photo is an affliate of Amazon, Zazzle, Blurb & B&H Photo David is a member of PPA, NAPP, the ACM and NANPA. Cardinal Photo is a Corporate member of NANPA. David graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1981, concentrating in digital imaging and algorithms, and was awarded the Joseph Clifton Elgin prize for contribution to the Engineering School. After stints at Amdahl Computer and nearly a decade at Sun Microsystems in a variety of positions including director of their consulting and sales support organizations and General Manager of their Applications Division, he founded FirstFloor Software in 1992, which merged with Calico Commerce where he was CTO until founding Cardinal Photo (Pro Shooters LLC) in 2000, where he is the principal owner along with his wife Lorrie Duval.
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| David's images are available from: |
A limited number of David's Stock images are available from:
A selection of prints and notecards is on display at Allegro Gallery in Woodside, California For prints and a full selection of images please email stock [at] cardinalphoto.com You can also find David & Cardinal Photo on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. |
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