MEET THE TEAM

CINDY DYER
Owner / Designer / Photographer
My projects have included more than 50 magazines and newsletters, more than 70 books and directories, packaging, brochures, annual reports, conference collateral, direct mail and corporate identity. My skills encompass design, layout, photography, writing, creating content for publications, marketing and blogging. Photographic services include portraits, convention and event coverage and stock.

My design work has gamered several Hermés Creative Awards and my photographs have been featured in American Photographer magazine, Shutterbug magazine and Hearing Life magazine. My botanical photography is featured in the Learn & Explore series on Nikon's website in “How to Grow Your Garden Photography Skills.”

In 2014 the USPS released a series of FOREVER stamps using five of my fern images. My second series for the USPS were four water lily photographs, which debuted as FOREVER stamps on March 20, 2015 in Cleveland, OH. My image of Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens was one of 16 national parks featured in the stamp panel commemorating the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016, making that my 10th stamp with the USPS. My image of an African daisy is the Global Stamp for 2022, and debuted on March 15, 2022, making this my 11th stamp with the USPS

BARBARA LEWIS
Marketing Communications Consultant / Writer
Barbara Lewis has many years of professional writing and communications experience, ranging from television documentary and corporate video scriptwriting to advertising and marketing communications copywriting. She has also worked in book/magazine publishing and contributed to a published children’s book. Barbara worked in the direction department of the popular children’s PBS TV series, “Wishbone,” for 8 episodes. More recently, she researched and wrote 10 episodes of a 60-minute, prime time documentary series entitled “The Genesis of Healing” for a cable network. She has received communications industry awards, including a Dallas Press Club Katie, an IABC Bronze Quill Award of Merit and a League of American Communications Professionals Gold Vision Award, among others. One of her screenplays has also placed in two international screenwriting competitions.

BRIAN LOFLIN
Photographer / Author / Teacher / Consultant
Brian Loflin is a highly respected photographer, author, teacher, and consultant. His seasoned professional career spans more than five decades in the advertising, aviation, bio-medical and publishing industry.

As a graduate biologist with an extensive background in marketing and communications, his early experience was as a medical photographer and a freelance photojournalist producing materials that served a variety of educational, technical and consumer publications. Later, he held senior marking positions at several international aerospace firms, serving airlines and aviation organizations on five continents.

Clients include leading names in the advertising and aerospace industry including: Bozell Worldwide, Young and Rubicam, Fairchild Aircraft, Saab Aircraft Corporation, Aeritalia, Raytheon/Beech Aerospace and BFGoodrich Aerospace.

Brian is a highly regarded teacher whose passion is in passing his knowledge and vision along to others. He currently teaches a new curriculum of Wildlife Photography at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He held similar teaching positions the University of Texas at Austin, University of California at Riverside and Riverside Community College. Brian actively teaches and conducts tours, seminars and workshops in many areas of photography.

Brian and his wife Shirley designed, authored and photographed Grasses of the Texas Hill Country (now in its second printing), Texas CactiTexas Wildflower Vistas and Hidden Treasures and Advanced Macro Photography for Nature Scientists.

ANNA DAVALOS / ALEJO MEDIA
Chief Storyteller
Anna Davalos is the Chief Storyteller at Alejo Media. (i.e. Owner, CEO and Decision maker). Anna is a multi-talented, Emmy-award-winning producer with more than 20 years of experience in broadcast and online-media; a well seasoned expert in video production techniques. Anna began her career as a small-market producer before working her way up to national-level assignments—along the way, receiving an Emmy. She has been intricately involved in the writing, producing and editing a variety of television and cable network news productions. Her assignments have included covering the Olympics, Pope visits, Presidential Inaugurations and the Charlottesville riot.

In 2006, Anna took her storytelling skills to an online platform—joining the Associated Press Online Video Network. There, she and her team developed, wrote and edited stories for distribution to hundreds of websites across the country. Before launching Alejo Media, in 2011, Anna was the Executive Producer at the nationally syndicated EnergyNOW!, a weekly, nationally syndicated news magazine airing on Bloomberg TV on energy and environmental issues.

At Alejo Media, Anna and her team create marketing videos for corporations, non-profits and individuals. Learning about clients and what they do, and finding the right way to show their story is a passion and something new with each client. Anna has also produced education media for The Great Courses, now known as Wondrium. She worked with some of the country’s best university professors on topics ranging from life in the biblical era to world explorers and best-selling authors. Learning should never end when you get your degree!

She produced a comedy series, “Pushers”, with the creators, two pharmaceutical reps who based the show on their crazy, antic-filled days.

Anna graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and serves as a guest lecturer at Georgetown University and the University of Oklahoma, she sits on a number of business boards of directors and is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

DANIEL SCOTT JR.
Design / Fine Arts
Howdy! I am an industry veteran with more than 20 years of design and fine art experience. In my spare time, I also create breathtaking portraits made with candy wrappers and play the guitar. After a solo exhibit, I was interviewed by Fort Worth magazine and the article was included in the January 2021 edition. I currently reside in Fort Worth, Texas with my wife and two girls.