PHOTO CRITIQUE & TEA

Take Better Photos – Learn from the best!

Saturday, February 8, 2014 2 – 3:30 p.m.

$18 for Members/$25 Non-members, per class. Please call the Center to register, 860 633-8402

Diana Atwood Johnson, one of the judges this year’s CAS Photo Contest, will lead this photo critique workshop. Diana will be open to questions from photo contest exhibitors about the work they submitted and will lead a discussion of how you may be able to improve your own photography from an artistic point of view.

As the former owner of the Old Lyme Inn, Johnson got to know Roger Tory Peterson when he and his wife would come for dinner. According to Johnson, it was Peterson who first alerted her to the swirling motion that flocks of tree swallows make during their migratory preparations from the lower Connecticut River and nearby Goose Island, where they gather each August before migrating for winter. She produced “Swallow Tales” in 2008, a book of her photographs of this rare Connecticut phenomena. Last summer, The Gallery at Firehouse Square in New London had a unique exhibition featuring original works by Diana and Peterson. Titled “Roger Tory Peterson and Me: A Bird Photographer’s Inspiration.”