New Class Offerings at the MPC

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Creative Edge Learning Opportunities

Spring Break is Almost Here!

Spring Break Seminar 2011

Save this date: Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:00am to 5:00pm

Where: Dakota County Technical College Main Campus

This all day event will include breakout sessions with an emphasis on portrait photography from the initial shoot, to retouching, to printing. There will also be programs on Paint Shop Photo Pro, Portrait Professional, Picasa, and Corel Painter Essentials 4.

There are six rooms reserved for simultaneous sessions. There are two rooms with a capacity of 150 each, one classroom which will accommodate 30, one computer lab with 24 computers set up with photo software and two portrait studios for instruction. This will allow us to offer a wide variety of workshops and to repeat the workshops throughout the day.

Location:
Dakota County Technical College Main Campus
Located in the heart of Rosemount, Minn., just minutes away from the Twin Cities, the main campus of Dakota County Technical College reflects the intimacy of a small town with the networking and cultural advantages of a modern metropolitan area.
• Dakota County Technical College 
1300 145th Street East (County Road 42)
Rosemount, MN 55068
651-423-8301

The Flash Tour

THE FLASH TOUR

Demonstrating the speed of light while rolling across the country at the speed of a moving bus, the world's two leading educators and innovators in the big world of small flash, David "The Strobist" Hobby and Joe "Numnuts" McNally team up for the FLASHBUS 2011 TOUR.

Hobby and McNally kick off this small flash fest on March 11th in Seattle, and then head down the West Coast and across the country teaching, demonstrating, lighting and debating about speed lights. Shoot manual? Check! Wanna try TTL? Gotcha covered! 29 cities, 13,000 miles, rolling, flashing, tweeting from San Diego to Boston, Atlanta to LA, Memphis to Denver, and lots of stops in between.

Two different styles of lighting and two different ways of teaching combine as Hobby and McNally join forces to explore and explain good light — good light done fast and well.

Hobby and morning coffee! David runs the morning session, and then gives way to McNally and lots of lights in the afternoon. They come together onstage at the end of the day in a free-wheeling Q&A--no holds barred.

The Flashbus 2011 Tour is coming to a venue near you!

For more information go to: www.flashbustour.com

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Registration opens January 31st @ 9 AM EST

$99.95

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Photography

Call for Artists at HCMC

There has been a call for artists and their work at the new Whittier Clinic of HCMC:

• We are seeking submissions for artwork to be considered for future purchase
  
• and installation in Hennepin County Medical Center’s new Whittier Clinic in
• the Whittier Neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Please see the attached
  
• RFP/Call for Artists requesting proposals. The deadline for this call is
  
• February 18, 2011.

If interested contact Wenda Lyons Ballinger the Arts Program Coordinator for Inspire Arts at the Hennepin Health Foundation. Her number is 612-873-2208. You can go to their website to learn more about the Inspire Arts program.

Below is a copy of the Request for Proposal. Click on it for a larger view.

So you're considering an African Adventure?

Africa the dark continent is large, diverse, mysterious and accessible to photographers who sign up for a photo workshop with an experienced photographer. One such workshop is offered by Jansen Photographic Expeditions in Tanzania with a side trip to the spice island of Zanzibar. (Click on the images below for a larger view).

Mark Jansen is a professional photographer who has offered workshops primarily in and around the Sierra Mountain area of California. He is considering putting together an African adventure for interested photographers. To get more information about this adventure, or his offerings in California go to his website Jansen Photo Expeditions.



You may also consider going to Africa with experienced local photographer Mark Lissick who is well known to camera club members. He has offered workshops at various locations in Africa for many years. This year he has one scheduled for Tanzania from February 25 - March 7. (Click on images below for more details).


Mark is also planning another trip to Tanzania in February 2012 and one in Zambia in August-September 2012. Its never too early to plan for an African safari. You can view a listing of all of the workshops at Mark's website.

Alex Johnson workshops

Our good friend, presenter and judge for man of our clubs has announced he is putting on two workshops this year. The first is in the badlands of South Dakota in June, and the second is his spectacular workshop on the North Shore in August (I personally attended this one and can highly recommend it). You can view the particulars on his website acjohnson Photography and then click on "location workshops". You can also sign up to follow his blog from a link on this site.




Also view some of Alex's fine commercial work at acjohnsonphoto.