Wildflower Walk at Serenbe with Macro - with Kathryn Kolb and Donna Rosser

In this 2-part workshop, Kathryn Kolb takes you on a walk around Serenbe woods to see various wildflowers and other spring woodland features along with tips about design and perspective, and Donna Rosser gives an orientation on easy to use macro photography field techniques. Photographers will learn about the accessories they may use to take excellent macro photographs, including extension tubes, close-up diopters, reversing rings and more. You may even discover that your best macro lens is a point and shoot camera!

This is an SPC “Eye on the World” workshop.

Bring:
Your camera, macro equipment and tripod
Students may also use the instructor’s equipment to try a shot with equipment that may be new to them.

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Overnight Lodging Available

Questions?
contact SPC Asst. Dir. Jenna Duffy
office - 770-463-9098

About the Instructors

Donna Rosser, owner of The Barefoot Photographer®, has been taking photographs since she was 9 years old. Forty years since Donna tracked the woods of Virginia with her grandfather, she is spending time in the woods near her Georgia home.  Donna prefers natural light and natural settings. Just a few years ago she began teaching workshops and founded a local photography group. Donna’s photos are part of many personal and commercial collections. She has been consistently juried into photo shows including Slow Exposures. Donna has been featured in newspapers, podcasts, and magazines; and her photos have been used on Atlanta news shows. In 2009, she turned her talent to directing Nature, Undisturbed, a juried photography exhibit benefiting the Southern Conservation Land Trust. The
show was such a success in its inaugural year, it will continue as an
annual event.

See http://www.thebarefootphotographer.com

Kathryn Kolb
Executive Director of Serenbe Photography Center

Kathryn Kolb is a free-lance photographer working in the Atlanta area since 1985. Her editorial work is characterized by an artistic style with strong graphic elements. Her photographs have been widely published and have appeared in Smithsonian, Veranda, Rolling Stone, Nature Conservancy, Orion magazine and others. Special photographic projects Kolb accomplished include: environmental portraits of regional artists for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution; portraits of formerly homeless men and women who regained successful lives through Atlanta's Samaritan House, and self-published calendars of Atlanta and Athens musicians, including artists REM and Indigo Girls. In 1996, Kolb photographed a medical mission to rural communities in the Dominican Republic. In 1999, through Soho-Myriad Gallery (Atlanta), Kolb was commissioned to create non-traditional landmark portraits of the University of Virginia campus for a permanent installation at the University's Boar's Head Inn in Charlottesville. Images from Kolb's Tree Series were recently installed in the public spaces of the Children's Clinic at Emory University, and Kolb was one of five photographers selected to display work on Atlanta's MARTA buses for the public art project "Art in Motion," sponsored by the City of Atlanta in 2008.

Since the mid-nineties Kolb has shifted toward fine art images of natural forms and landscapes. Kolb's fine art series include black & white and color photographs of landscapes, trees and other plants from diverse natural environments. Her most recent work, mostly in color, explores abstract constructions that often seem more akin to painting than photography. As photographer, Kolb stays true to the simplest form of her medium - all works are straightforward, un-manipulated images, and she uses no digital cameras or printing techniques. Kolb takes all photographs with a Hasselblad medium format camera and prints with traditional enlargers. Her fine art photographs have been exhibited widely and can be found in private and institutional collections including. MOCA, Georgia Museum (Athens, GA), Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, King & Spalding LLC, Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan, LLC, Georgia Conservancy, Goizueta Business School (Emory Univ.), Georgia Tech, and City of Atlanta.

In additional to fine art images of natural subjects, Kolb continues to do environmentally-oriented assignment work. In 1999-2001, Kolb produced calendars for Georgia Forestwatch, featuring unprotected areas in Georgia's national forests. Her work was included in the Sierra Club's Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, and she illustrated an article on kudzu for the October 2000 issue of Smithsonian. Two of her Tree Series photographs were featured in the Oct/Nov 2001 Veranda magazine. The Wilderness Society commissioned Kolb to photograph roadless and wilderness areas of the southeastern Appalachians for the publication, Why Wilderness? What the Remaining Wildlands of the Southern Appalachians Mean to the People of the Southeast, published in 2004. These photographs along with others from the southeastern region were exhibited in a solo show at Fernbank Museum of Natural History (Atlanta) in 2005.

Kolb's interest in the environment goes beyond her visual aesthetic. Since the early nineties Kolb has worked to preserve and restore native forest environments and care for urban trees and greenspace. She helped to produce new tree ordinances for DeKalb County and the City of Atlanta, served on the board of Georgia Forestwatch, and helped the City of Atlanta acquire a greenspace in her neighborhood. She also was the principal founder and served three years as Director of Keeping It Wild, a program of The Wilderness Society, dedicated to bringing diverse partners together with the conservation community in order to connect urban residents to natural lands and promote the protection and restoration of natural and wildlands in Atlanta, Georgia and the Southeast.

In August 2005 Kolb and her work were featured as cover story in the Arts Section of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. In 2007 she was featured on TBS' award-winning television series Storyline. A book of her fine art work, Kathryn Kolb Photographs, was published in 2008. Most recently Kolb was featured in the October 2009 issue of Professional Photographer magazine.

In 2008, Kolb established a cooperative group of Atlanta-area photographers called The Photographer’s Print Studio, in order to create a printing facility where photographers and working artists could pool resources in order to make high quality prints of their work affordably with the best equipment available. Under Kolb’s leadership, the project then partnered with Serenbe Institute in 2009 to become the Serenbe Photography Center. Kolb was chief founding planner and engineer, and currently serves as Executive Director of SPC.

Kolb's fine art photographs are currently available through Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta; Haen Gallery, Asheville, NC, Amanda Schedler Fine Art, Birmingham, AL; Artstudio 101, Scottsdale, AZ.

See kathrynkolb.com