Introducing the Lenzr Judges, in no particular order. I’ll start with Adrian Fiebig because I have a picture of him and I together (thats me on the left) taken from inside Lenzr in the summer of 2011.

1) Adrian Fiebig

Rob Campbell and Adrian Fiebig

Adrian Fiebig has been working as a freelance photographer for the last 25 years. Born in London, England, his work has taken him to many parts of the globe including London, Cape Town, Los Angeles, Miami, Amsterdam, and Toronto. We met while waiting for the rain to stop out front of Archeo restaurant in The Distillery District the same day / storm in which rob shot the highly acclaimed YouTube video entitled, Sudden Rain Shower interrupts The Distillery Tenants BBQ on Monday 15th of August.

Adrian’s experience, skill and creativity have all contributed to his success in the fashion industry. He has shot professionally for a broad range of advertising, catalogue, and editorial clients including BMW, ING Direct, Harrods, Marks and Spencer, Jaeger, Burton Group, Weller, Clairol, L’Oreal, Cover Girl, Revlon, Procter and Gamble, Sony and Labatts. His catalog clients include Sears, Hudson’s Bay Company, Empire Stores, and Gratons. Editorial clients include Cosmopolitan, Company, Seventeen, Options, Woman’s Own, Good Housekeeping, Living, Hairdressers Journal, and Flare.

2. Richard Carmichael of FRANK  Ideas and Execution

Richard is a creative guy with a business brain. He’s a web designer, team builder  and problem solver.

FRANK Ideas and Execution is a no-nonsense interactive marketing and social media strategy boutique. Prior to establishing Frank, Richard spent ten years sharpening his teeth as Creative Director at Creative House in Toronto where he did some excellent work for an impressive assortment of top tiered companies like CIBC, Club Monaco, Edward Jones, McMillan Binch, Nelvana, Revlon, and YTV.

More recently, Richard has been spearheading Frank’s migration into the realm of Web 2.0, social networking, analytics (SEM) and the possibilities created by next generation social innovation technologies. His mission is to identify the opportunities inherent in everything he sees, bring progressive ideas, innovative technologies and talented people together to connect and engage, affect positive change and create a better, smarter and healthier world.

3. Nora Camps of Duo.ca

Nora Camps  of Duo Strategy and Design, is part of innovative  business storytelling company with a green mandate to help change the world.  She’s a graphic designer, web marketing strategist and fine arts painter living and working in Toronto, Ontario.

Nora has sponsored the Canadian Harvest photo contest and is the sole judge of that match.

You can read and learn more about Nora Camps on Canada Blog Friends, where she was profiled in October 2011.

4. Mary Bratko is Wedding Girl

Mary Bratko is very busy wedding planner in Toronto who blogs as WeddingGirl.ca and she is a very influential blogger. Her monthly traffic is much larger than even Lenzr’s traffic, and her pictures and text are hungrily devoured by thousands of readers, all over the world everyday. Yes, Mary is almost a daily blogger, for rarely a day goes by that she doesnt update her blog with some fascinating tidbit.  She tells me that she posts for her readers now, because that she knows her writings bring comfort to a lot of people who find happiness in weddings, wedding fashion, jewelry and marriage rituals,  exotic traditions, decorations, menu ideas, beverage ideas, stags and … all that stuff.  When you are young and in love – its the bomb.  Mary Bratko was recently profiled on Canada Blog Friends and can be accessed through her Wedding Girl Dot Ca Facebook page.  As a Lenzr Judge, Mary likes to see good design and rich colours, and straight forward shots that capture beautiful moments.

5. Bill Watson, aerial photography

Bill has enjoyed photography for over 40 years. His multiple interests in the art form led him to become a very versatile photographer that’s good at getting effects and really good at moving the camera… Currently, Bill likes to shoot landscapes, and wildlife he finds therein. He likes candid shots, but executes portraits and commercial product photos too.  Bill has every reason to be confident and even proud of his abilities – he’s combined his two passions; 1) his love of aviation (he’s a licensed amateur pilot) and 2) photography have merged into a new artform, Remote Control Helicopter Aeriel Photography.

Bill and his wife Debbie (Mommakoala) both view photography as the ability to capture fleeting moments of life that can be enjoyed and treasured for decades to come.  Bill Watson is the owner of very cool aerial photography business.  This mad scientist’s high angle pictures have been featured in the Hamilton Spectator, Toronto Sun, Fallsview Hotel Niagara Falls, Snap Hamilton, and Daily Planet (… hey, isn’t that where Clark Kent works?).

Bill Watson  is the prolific Lenzr member Ve3bnw and with much applause here in the office, he’s been appointed as Judge in the upcoming session . Years ago he won a Blackberry Bold smart phone in the Crowded Places photo contest. I’ve been on Bill’s side ever since he tagged along with his wife Debbie on her Locaboire wine tour prize package; Bill took great shots of The Wine Ladies at the local Prince Edward Co wineries we visited that day.

6. Debbie Watson is Mommakoala

Mommakoala is a veteran contester and winning Lenzr participant – she has a dedicated following and a good eye for pictures. She’s the token Lenzr member that’s been promoted to the nobility ‘from the ranks’, if you will.

Debbie is a health care worker in Hamilton and multiple Lenzr contest winner. She’s won three contests.  Debbie won a Locaboire wine tour, 50 lbs of chocolate from Chocolicks, and $200 gift certificate from Kanetix. ( At one time she was tied with Slimmswitch for being the winningest member, but Silversurfer71 has since obliterated their record).

Debbie maintains the Canadian National Autism Foundation (CNAF) blog and that’s a good cause. She’s got a big heart.

Mommakoala’s maternal instincts are present in her picks. She voted for Silversurfer’s airborne counting picture winner and said she found herself ‘counting out the numbers’ and she gazed upon the picture. It was a powerful image and supporting text like that from Judges made it unforgettable in the blog post and thats what I appreciate most from the Judges, their insights into why and how they chose the picture they did to win,

Lenzr can count on Deb to ring alarm bells and cry foul if and when she spots any shenanigans in the index.

7. Carolyn Wilman the Contest Queen

Carolyn has been very supportive of Lenzr over the years.  She has offered countless tidbits of free advice and consulted on the legalities of running photo contests across North America, including Quebec.

Carolyn is probably Canada’s foremost contest blogger with a massive Twitter following @ContestQueen . She writes From The Contest Queen which is a weekly round-up of great challenges and best prizes, sweepstakes conventions and profiles of good companies and other ‘sweepers’. Carolyn was cast in a reality TV show about online contesting in the summer of 2011 and she’s a regular on Canada AM and other news programs.

October 21st 2011 she visited our offices and a I snapped this shot outside in the Distillery District.

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