| Mar. 13, 2014 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Location: GWU Ashburn Campus, Exploration Hall, Rm 101
Hi Everyone,
Our speaker this month will be Ben Greenberg, who will be presenting his program based upon his just published book “Natural Virginia”. Ben also plans to join us for dinner at 5:30 pm beforehand at Rubino’s, so hope to see you all there!
Details about Ben Greenberg and “Natural Virginia”:
Ben Greenberg, an award-winning landscape photographer from Charlottesville, Virginia, is pleased to announce his availability to present a program based upon his upcoming book,Natural Virginia. Natural Virginia is a coffee table sized book (10” x 17” & 240 pages) composed of panoramic color landscape photographs from throughout the state of Virginia. The book will celebrate the natural beauty of the state and its preservation. Natural Virginia is being marketed and distributed by the UVA Press and will be published in March 2014. It is being supported by nine statewide non-profit environmental organizations.
Natural Virginia is unlike any book ever published about the state of Virginia. The entire focus of the book is the state’s natural areas. There are 122 panoramas from the three regions of the state: Tidewater, Piedmont and Western Virginia. These images highlight national and state parks, wildlife management areas, national wildlife refuges as well as rivers, lakes, wetlands, mountains, valleys and much more. Waterfowl are also featured.
The writing in Natural Virginia features Tayloe Murphy, former Delegate, Secretary of Natural Resources and a well-known environmentalist, who wrote a wonderful Foreword for the book. Furthermore, Deane Dozier, a good friend and an outstanding photographer and writer who has published three books about Virginia’s environment, wrote the introduction to the book as well as the introductions to each of the three regions of the state. Her written words beautifully complement Ben’s dramatic color images.
Ben’s presentation on Natural Virginia will feature projection of images from each of the three regions, the stories behind the capturing of many of the photographs, information about Virginia’s natural areas and the process of photographing them, keys to capturing dramatic landscape photographs and methods by which one can take and create panoramic images.
Copies of Natural Virginia will be on hand at the presentation and Ben will be available to sell signed copies.
Information about Natural Virginia and its images can be found on the book’s website:www.naturalvirginiabook.com. Ben’s landscape photographs are also featured in his photography website: www.bengreenberg.com.
Cheers,
Carol Tharp
