Today is Nature Photography Day! Go on a family hike and see what you can see! Here are some recommendations from North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA):
* Select a subject in nature that is small or common and thus easily overlooked. Then photograph it in a way to make the ordinary seem extraordinary.
* Take your kids and grandkids on a nature trek and give them a single-use camera to use. Then print some of their photos and present them, in a mat or frame, to those young photographers.
* Pick something that you've never photographed before, and then make plans to photograph that subject or scene every June 15.
* Look for and photograph something that detracts from the beauty in nature - images that show how human beings sometimes adversely affect our environment.
* Finally, ask yourself how your images can help to bring positive changes to your world!
This a fun way to see nature and to challenge yourself to see things in a new way. I love taking different photographs with our small digital camera. I liked the bark of a ponderosa pine tree at Buffalo Park. The bottom photo shows my son's arm next to some bear claw marks on a fallen aspen- grrrrr.
Always remember to Leave No Trace.
Thanks Molly, for sharing this information.
Leave No Trace website: http://www.lnt.org/programs/principles.php
NANPA’s website: http://www.nanpa.org/nature_photography_day.php
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