WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Cades Cove
Friday, December 4 – Sunday, December 6
Cost: $250
Limited to 10 students. This will sell out!
Instructors: Donald Brown, Toni Lovejoy
Lodging: Highland Manor
Suggested lodging location. Workshop instructors
will be lodging at Highland Manor.
COVID Requirements:
– Masks and social distancing required.
– Each participant will separately caravan to each site.
– Each participant will be responsible for their own lodging.
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Cades Cove is within the Great Smoky Mountains. The Cove’s 12-mile loop offers some of the best opportunities to see white-tailed deer, elk, black bear, raccoon, turkeys, woodchucks, and the beautiful remnants of the early mountain settlers. Scattered along the loop road are three churches, a working grist mill, barns, log houses, and many other faithfully restored eighteenth and nineteenth-century structures.
Donald Brown and Toni Lovejoy have extensive experience photographing at Cades Cove. Both are proficient in the technical and creativity it takes to make award-winning pictures. Lucky us that they’re taking us along and sharing their skills! We will be photographing iconic shots and unique spots, allowing you to expand your technical skills and your ability to express your unique creative vision. On Saturday evening, there will be an optional session experimenting with light painting and astrophotography.
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DONALD BROWN
Don is a resident of Charlotte, NC, and was President of the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Assn (CNPA) for 5 years. He is an active member of the North American Nature Photographers Association (NANPA), and the Photographic Society of America (PSA). Don joined the Board of Directors of PSA in 2011 and served as Membership Vice President until Oct 2018. He is currently the 1st Vice-Chair of the PSA Pictorial Print Division. An avid exhibiter since 2011, he regularly offers his works for judging in juried competitions and PSA sanctioned International Exhibitions of Photography and has earned over 700 acceptances to date. His works have appeared in the NANPA Showcase, Natures Best Photography, and Lenswork to name a few. He enjoys three PSA sponsored Study Groups (American Portfolios), providing written critiques for a Nature Print Portfolio, the Large Monochrome Print Portfolio, and a Small Print Portfolio.
You can find Don’s work online at debphotography.blogspot.com.
TONI LOVEJOY
Toni Lovejoy is a full-time visual artist based in Charlotte, NC. Raised by a renowned American Western Artist and educated at Colorado Institute of Art, she’s been creating images for over 30 years starting in sports and fashion. She began her career as a photojournalist in Iowa photographing sports, moving on to fashion and editorial work in Australia. After moving back to the States in the 80s to continue her fashion work, she spent a year interning in a fashion studio before beginning to work in the film and commercial world in Phoenix and LA. In 2008 Lovejoy made the switch from film to digital and began exploring fine-art landscape photography.
You can find Toni’s work online at mynameislovejoy.com as well as her Instagram accounts under the same moniker @mynameislovejoy.
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Images 1 and 2: Donald Brown
Images 3 and 4: Toni Lovejoy
