A Pulitzer Prize winning National Geographic photographer and a prominent Chesapeake Bay photographer will team up to offer two, three-day photography workshops on the Eastern Shore in January. Jay Dickman, who operates FirstLight Workshops from Denver, Colorado and Cambridge resident Dave Harp will conduct sessions January 16-18 and again on January 23 through the 25 at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and the marshes of Dorchester County. This is the fourth time over the past decade that the two have teamed up in Cambridge to pass on their many decades of experience to photography students with skill levels from beginner to advanced amateur.
Winter Light on the Chesapeake will begin each session with a Thursday night reception and get acquainted session followed by two days of intensive shooting at first light and again in the afternoon, with a critique and discussion in the middle of each day. A final projection session of the students’ work will be held on Sunday morning.
“We stress a sense of community in our workshops,” Dickman said. “We learn from each other and are always sharing tips and experiences. Dave and I combined have spent more than eight decades making photographs for regional and national publications and it’s always a joy to pass along what we’ve learned. We often see considerable growth in our students in just a few days.” Harp added that January is the ideal time to photograph the marshes of Dorchester County, with the low arc of the sun producing warm horizontal light on the grassy edges between land and water and the classic Chesapeake landscape of water, grasses, trees and the clear winter sky. “It’s also an ideal time to see and photograph the wintering Canada and snow geese, tundra swans and bald eagles and a wide variety of waterfowl,” he said. “ It’s absoulutely the best time to be out in the marshes of Dorchester County.”
In addition to instruction by Dickman and Harp, a technical representative from Olympus Camera will provide cameras and lenses from the revolutionary new mirrorless OMD-EM1, which has garnered Camera of the Year accolades from several top web sites and publications including DPReview.com and Popular Photography.
Each workshop has a maximum of 12 participants. For further information go to www.firstlightworkshop.com/upcoming-workshops/ or call (303) 730-2894.
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