Make the Ordinary Extraordinary Youth Workshop with National Geographic's Raymond Gehman Ages 9 to 17 Oct 22, 2011: 10am - 5pm

© Raymond Gehman

Members: $115 • Non-members: $145 • Prerequisites: Ages 9 - 17

Space Limited to 12 participants

Description

Would you like to give your child the most important gift of all? This one day workshop is an unusual opportunity for your child, ages 9-17, to join National Geographic photographer Raymond Gehman as he helps them discover and photograph the unseen and extraordinary world in the normal, ordinary objects of the local neighborhood. Raymond, whose pictures have adorned National Geographic Magazine covers, will teach your child all areas of photography that can be done in his or her own home, backyard, or local environment, and that transform common subjects into uncommonly imaginative creations. He will cover the basics of image taking and composition with SLR digital cameras in natural and indoor light as well as demonstrate the use of innovative techniques such as how to create the sense of motion. Back in the classroom, students will receive a critique of their day's work, plus create a portfolio of their best photographs. Raymond will help the youthful participants learn how to turn boring down time into ingenious up time, producing fantastical photographs on their own in the meantime!

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Biography

RAYMOND GEHMAN has worked for National Geographic Society since 1986. With three cover photographs and numerous books and articles, he has been on assignment in Yellowstone, Wyoming’s Bighorn Country, Florida’s Sanibel Island Gulf Coast, the Canadian Rockies, the rain forests of Belize, Icelandic glaciers and icebergs, deep, dark Polish forests, and rural China during the People’s Republic 50th anniversary celebration. He has documented grizzly bears, the vanishing prairie dog and wetlands, the ecology of fire, the aftermath of hurricanes, hot pools, and nocturnal Apache ceremonial dancers. Previously, he studied fine arts photography at Northern Virginia Community College and earned a degree in photojournalism from the renowned School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He worked for 11 years as a newspaper photojournalist in Montana and Virginia. Recently he has concentrated on more personal digital artwork, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary by shooting everything from apples to oranges, flowers to flying light domes, and glass globes to transcendent trucks, and transforming these subjects into dazzling impressionistic imagery. In 2010 his work will be exhibited from Virginia to Houston to Colorado.