Macrophotography Workshop
April 15 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Land Trust invites you to a two-part workshop on macrophotography led by two local photographers and Land Trust volunteers, Jim Kendall and Kyle Zeringue. This workshop is for people already familiar with manual photography who want to improve their skills at macrophotography using a DSLR, SLR, or Mirrorless camera (no cell phone photography). In the indoor practice session you will learn about macrophotography and practice taking photos of flowers and small objects at the Land Trust office. In the field session you will apply this knowledge to photograph wildflowers, fungi, and whatever else inspires you at the Matthews Nature Preserve, which is normally closed to the public.
April 15 – 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Indoor session for instruction and practice
Location: Land Trust of North Alabama office–2707 Artie St SW Ste 6, Huntsville, Alabama 35805
April 19 – 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Field session
Location: Matthews Nature Preserve
You will receive further information such as supplies, locations and a handout after you sign up. There is a $20 fee to cover workshop supplies.
About the Instructors:
Jim Kendall is an electrical engineer who began his photography journey in the water while SCUBA diving, learning photography the hard way with underwater film, and later transitioning to digital photography. In the move from Florida to Alabama, he found himself diving less and becoming interested in photography on land. He likes traveling for photography workshops and to photograph specific subjects like bears in the Smoky Mountains. He was the photographer for the Huntsville Ballet for 10 years, shoots for the Army part-time, and is currently documenting Land Trust properties with a drone. See his work.
Kyle Zeringue has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry and began photography when in grad school as an escape from lab research work. He ran the office for PRA in Huntsville for 21 years and is familiar with photographing the local landscape, flora and fauna. He is mostly retired and spends time on creative pursuits such as photography and ceramics, which he took up two years ago at Sullivan Pottery. He had a studio at Lowe Mill for eight years and finds inspiration in John Shaw’s book on close up photography and photo workshops, mostly at National Parks, on topics like flower portraits, frozen flowers and milky way photography. See his work.
