Photographing the Environment with Gary Braasch Apr 23-27, 2012 9:30am - 5:30pm	© Gary Braasch

Members: $845 • Non-members: $895 • Prerequisites: None

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

This workshop will experience the beaches, gardens and wetlands daily to make extraordinary images. You will develop your eye and sensibility toward nature and landscape while sharpening skills of subject selection, composition and point of view. A goal will be to create imagery that communicates personal feelings, environmental awareness and emotional power.

The workshop will include fieldwork, research and editing, including previsualization and planning for location. Many days we will arise before dawn to photograph the morning light, go back to the classroom to review the day's work, and return to the field for late afternoon light. There may be day-long excursions to everglades locations. The work will be reviewed with comments ranging from the practical to the aesthetic. We will explore composition, the quality of light and exposure, lens choice and story-telling, among other skills. With his work on the Everglades and Florida coastal issues as background, Gary shares his approach to combining environmental information with strong images for editorial, book, and conservation assignments. You may share personal projects and portfolios and discuss how to turn a personal vision into story proposals, assignments, portfolios and books.

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Biography

GARY BRAASCH is a nature photojournalist and writer specializing in environmental issues and conservation. His images and assignment articles have been published by Time, LIFE, Discover, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Scientific American and the United Nations among many others. He received the Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra Club and the Outstanding Nature Photographer citation from the North American Nature Photography Association. In 2010 he was named as one of the Forty Most Influential Nature Photographers by Outdoor Photography magazine. Gary Braasch is author of Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, which Al Gore calls "essential reading for every citizen." He is a founding executive committee member and Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, and is a Nikon "Legend Behind the Lens. In 1999 Gary began World View of Global Warming, a self-assigned project documenting climate change around the world.