Throughout 2020
Easthampton Media
116 Pleasant St Suite 102, Easthampton, MA
Advanced photographers (listed below) will teach interested residents digital photography in each of four separate disciplines at Easthampton Media. Then, the participants will be encouraged to explore the Easthampton environment, photograph their subjects, and submit their digital images. These images will be reviewed, selected, and tweaked for printing. Four images will be selected and printed from each of the four categories for display at Easthampton Media in a monthly exhibit. Pat Crutchfield will be curator of this exhibit.
Robert Floyd has taught photojournalism for 20 years including UMASS, St. John's University, The Floyd Gallery, and MASS Audubon. His strength is distilling the essence of what someone needs to learn to rise to the next level successfully. Derek Allard is recognized as one of the top birders in Western Massachusetts. He is a resident of Easthampton and has a wide following teaching at UMASS and MASS Audubon. Ms. Ann E Ely is an Amherst nature photographer photographer who has been published over 130 times in the Daily Hampshire Gazette's Valley Views. Marc St. One is a working photojournalist for the Westfield Times, an avid nature exhibitor, and an instructor for years in basic and intermediate photography.
Residents with little basic skills in nature photography will be taught a disciplined aspect of photography to focus on a particular subject matter to instill confidence they can create a worthwhile exhibitable print no matter their age/skill level.