Shoot the Extraordinary Everglades Youth Workshop with National Geographic's Raymond Gehman Nov 5, 2011

© Raymond Gehman

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

Space Limited to 12 participants

Description

Adventure and the Everglades are closer for your child than you think! This one day workshop is an unusual opportunity for your child, ages 9-17, to join National Geographic photographer Raymond Gehman for a trek out to West Palm Beach's famous Grassy Waters Preserve as he shares his outdoor photographic expertise in this extraordinary 20-square mile native wetland and wildlife sanctuary. Raymond, whose pictures have adorned National Geographic Magazine covers, will teach your son or daughter all areas of natural photography, from the basics of image-taking with SLR digital cameras in natural light to creative techniqus such as when to use fill-flash. Back in the classroom, students will receive a critique of their work, plus create a portfolio of their best photographs. Raymond will help your child capture dramatic nature images, and make sure he or she has a great time doing it!

---

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.