By Barbara Seese
CAMBRIDGE – Robert Sullivan returns to DCA for a winter season photography workshop at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 22 from 6:30– 8:30 a.m. This workshop includes a Blackwater sunrise, as well as the opportunity to record lovely winter season colors.
According to Sullivan, daybreak is a great time for 2 reasons: it’s when the wildlife is most active, and the quality of light is remarkable and continuously altering. Plus, January is peak time for the migratory geese, duck, and swan that fill the sky in such great deals.
This workshop will offer information on photographing wildlife at Blackwater, as well as tips and techniques for photographing a daybreak. Professional photographers at all levels of experience are welcome.
You’ll see– and photo– Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in methods you have not previously. Workshop tuition is $25 per individual for DCA members, $60 for non-members. If you want to sign up with DCA and save on this and future class tuition, check out online at www.dorchesterarts.org. A second workshop at Blackwater will be held on Sunday, March 19, from 6:30 -8:30 a.m.
. The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1933 as a waterfowl sanctuary for birds migrating along the important migration highway called the Atlantic Flyway. Blackwater is host to over 250 bird species, 35 species of reptiles and amphibians, 165 species of threatened and threatened plants, and various mammals that can be spotted throughout the year in Blackwater’s marshes, forests, meadows, and fields. Presently the refuge is house to among the greatest concentrations of nesting bald eagles on the Atlantic coast.
Robert Sullivan is a documentary, landscape, and portrait photographer, with an enthusiasm for night photography, including the night sky. Since studying movie and photography in college, his profession path has taken lots of twists and turns, prior to lastly deciding on what he enjoys most and feels he ought to have been doing all along: working as a full-time professional photographer.
His pictures have won numerous awards and have actually been shown in various galleries and museums. He also teaches, tutors, and runs workshops committed to assisting professional photographers establish brand-new abilities and improve their imagination. Find Robert at workingimagephotography.com.
For details and registration for this workshop and extra activities at the Dorchester Center for the Arts, visit online at www.dorchesterarts.org. As the designated County Arts Council for Dorchester, DCA is devoted to increasing access to the arts for all members of our neighborhood by supporting extensive outreach and academic opportunities in the arts. Programs at DCA are supported by the Maryland State Arts Council. Discover us on Facebook.