Board of Directors

Ed Robidoux - President

Email: ed.tidelandsphoto@gmail.com

Cell: 843-385-0099

Bio: Founder and President of TPC, is a retired Engineer who moved to Murrells Inlet in 2003. He is a former Regional Coordinator for the Myrtle Beach Region of the Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association. His interests are photography and post processing. He works with fellow photographers to help them develop their skills in photography and to be comfortable with their images through the post processing workflow. His camera is a Fuji.

John Kester - Secretary

Email: johnlkester@gmail.com

Bio: John joined the Tidelands Photography Club in 2021. He currently serves as Club Secretary. He retired from his electric motor business in Sumter, SC and moved to Georgetown full time in 2015. John began learning about photography at an early age. His grandfather was a serious amateur photographer. As a child, John spent much time with his grandfather “helping” him in the darkroom and tagging along when he was taking pictures. John loves photographing wildlife and landscapes. He has always shot with Nikon cameras and currently uses a Nikon Z8 mirrorless camera.

Linda Dittrich - Treasurer

Email:
lindadit13@gmail.com

Bio: Treasurer and Membership Chair, Linda developed an interest in photography after she retired from teaching high school English. She is a “Nikon person” who particularly enjoys photojournalism and street photography. She likes to meet with members to build critiquing skills so that all can move toward reaching their goals as photographers.

Fred Giese - Liaison to the Presentation Committee

Bio: joined Tidelands Photography Club after moving to this area in 2015. He has been involved in fostering photography for beginners by teaching the basics, and setting up a program which put advanced photographers together with several beginners for mentoring. Fred also has experience as a judge in photo competitions.

Bob DeMarco

Bio: Bob DeMarco is a retired corporate tax director, a founding member of Tidelands
Photography Club and its past Secretary and Treasurer. He took up photography 19
years ago. He has an interest in landscape and wildlife photography but his true love is
showcasing the color, the natural beauty and wonder of flowers and enhancing his
images with a complimentary texture background.

David Fattaleh - Publicity and Programs Chair

Email:davidefattaleh@gmail.com

Bio: Having come from a family owned photofinishing business, David has been in photography most of his life. He started his photographic career as a wedding, portrait, and school photographer. His career expanded when he was hired as the Photography Manager for the West Virginia Division of Tourism. There he had the privilege of photographing beautiful landscapes, wildlife, natural wonders, state parks, and historical areas of West Virginia. David’s photographic career,
in West Virginia, also included being part of the photographic team for the Governor’s Office.
As a freelance photographer, his clientele included hospitals, local businesses, national and local magazine publishers, industrial and commercial photography.
David’s work has been shown in many publications, such as; Time-Life Books, Newsweek, National Geographic Adventure, Louisville Magazine, Huntington Quarterly Magazine, Marshall Magazine, Wonderful West Virginia Magazine, and others throughout the United States and abroad.
David has taught photography classes and workshops throughout West Virginia state parks and at the Huntington Museum of Art. He has conducted presentations at local high schools, photography clubs, city and state conventions, and business luncheons. After his retirement from his West Virginia career in 2009, David now resides in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. David has presented at the Seacoast Artist Gallery, Hobcaw Barony, Myrtle Beach Camera Club, Tidelands and CNPA Camera Clubs here in South Carolina.

www.davidfattaleh.com

Sandra M Barnes - Website

Email:
smb.piper@gmail.com

Bio: the administrator of the TPC Website, retired from education as the Library Media Specialist in an Arkansas high school after having taught elementary school, art and reading. Until Sandra picked up a camera for the first time, she says, “I did not actually see all the beauty that surrounds us.” She applies her media experience and her creativity in photography to TPC as well as many other arts and crafts. Her camera is a Canon.