Creative Art Classes

Photographing the Joshua Tree Landscape

Date/Time: Friday, November 7, 7 pm - 9 pm
Saturday, November 8, 9 am - 5 pm
Meet at: Copper Mountain College
Fee: $80 ($70 JTNPA/PINE members)
Instructor: Spelman Evans Downer M.A. Visual Art
  Associate Professor, Copper Mountain College

Capture the beauty of Joshua Tree National Park through your camera lens. Artist and educator Spelman Evans Downer will teach participants to develop their personal photography styles against the backdrop of the Mojave Desert. This two-day class will begin in the classroom, setting the stage for an intensive photo shoot in Joshua Tree National Park the following day. Spelman will review camera basics and how to combine traditional photography skills with digital techniques to create dynamic images in the classroom session and then focus the field session on exploring the landscape through the eyes of artists using boulder towers, outwash plains, panoramas, close ups, and Joshua trees as subjects.

Student in photography class
Photograph by Spelman Evans Downer

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