2017 High School Program Participant Hannah Mirando photographs a damselfly during this week’s program. Photo by Andrew Snyder.
You made it happen! The 2017 NANPA High School Scholarship Program concludes today in the Smoky Mountains thanks to your gift to the NANPA Foundation supporting the program. Ten high school students had an intensive week learning about nature, nature photography and the natural history of the Smoky Mountains at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont in Tremont, Tennessee. The students’ best work from the week will be shown at a reception today. Instructors Kika Tuff, Morgan Heim, Andrew Snyder and Don Carter led discussions and presentations on topics for the student participants on topics including:
- Wildlife and ethics
- Lightroom and editing courses
- Shutterspeed and camera settings
- Rules of composition
- Ethics of manipulation
- Camera trapping
- Insect trapping
- Editing a portfolio
Students were also treated to field instruction in Cades Cove by Bill Lea and a stream photography workshop by Todd Amacker, a 2015 NANPA College Scholarship Program participant.
We can’t thank you enough for making this life-changing experience possible for these ten students and the ones that will go through the program in future years. You are making a huge impact on nature photography’s future, too. We look forward to sharing with you more from the 2017 program and what’s planned for the 2018 event. Contributions to the 2018 program can be made to the NANPA Foundation…include “High School Program” in the donor comments field.
Without your gift, we couldn’t have done it!
Thanks to the following donors for making the 2017 program possible:
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Jacque Boehm Steedle/Strabo Photo Tours
Myer Bornstein
Jeffrey Botkin
Chet Burgess
Joseph Campana
Don Carter
Steve Carter
Stefan Christmann
Deanne Cunningham
Mark Davis
Richard & Susan Day
Beverly Delidow
David DesRochers
Gary Farber/Hunt’s Photo & Video
Sean Fitzgerald
Bernard Friel
Keren Gertsman
Susan Goralski
Kimber Grabs
Colin Haase
Morgan Heim
Don Henderson
Jeanne Hoadley
Dennis Holt
Thomas Kachelmeyer
Ted Keller
Lewis Kemper
Judith Kramer
Mark Larson
Stacey Meanwell
Wayne Mitchell
Chad Mooney
Ted Moreno
Charles Murphy
Ted Orwig
Cynthia Parnell
Dee Ann Pederson
Cheryl Pelavin
Teresa Ransdell
Alice Robertson
Gabby Salazar
Robert Schlatter
Wendy Shick
Richard Stanley
Mac Stone
Bruce Straits
Brenda Tharp
Maria Veghte
Linda Williams
Clay Wimberley/Wimberley, Inc.
Special thanks to the fStop Foundation for their grant supporting the 2017 program.
