LOCATION: EXPLORATION HALL- ROOM 121
Please join us Thursday night, September 11th, 7:00pm, to hear Tom Ramsay present his program on
” The Luminous Landscape: Mastering the Art of Light in Photography”
What does it take to move beyond a “snapshot of a scene’ to an artistic photographic rendering of a landscape?
Through the use of images, graphics, and music, award-winning photographer and highly acclaimed teacher Thomas Ramsay will explore the fundamentals of mastering landscape photography in our first meeting of the new year.
Behind the tools of the camera lie our personal responses to the quality of light and the dimensional elements in a given landscape. Behind those responses, however, lies the surprising nature of our human vision system: its complex inner workings and the manner in which different parts of the brain process different characteristics of an image, then merge them into a single integrated “picture” of that which is before us. Tom will explore how photographers can use an understanding of this visual processing to bring new levels of expression to their work.
While the portal through a camera lens is unique to photography, the portal of the human eye is shared by artists in all visual media. Consequently, Tom’s presentation will draw heavily on the work of the great classical artists, painters who intuitively discovered how to structure the elements of color and luminosity on their canvases in order to generate perceptions in a viewer that go beyond what individual pigments are capable of generating.
Although photographers “paint” with light, we can look to the masters of oil and watercolor to help us grow in our own medium, to better understand the link between the artist within and the landscape without, to go from snapshot to art.
Join us at our September 11 evening event to explore many of these possibilities for yourself.
Tom Ramsay
About Tom Ramsay :
Thomas (Tom) Ramsay is the lead instructor for The Leesburg School of Photography. He is a photographer, cinematographer, and motion picture/television director and editor with more than 35 national and international film awards.
Tom has photographed and directed for Time-Life’s “Wild Wild World of Animals,” Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom,” European television, the U.S. National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His films have been distributed worldwide and on ABC, BBC, CBS, and PBS television networks.
Tom has taught photography from the earliest days of his career, following his studies at Brooks Institute of Photography. Most recently, he developed and is now teaching a full photographic curriculum at The Leesburg School of Photography at Photoworks.
In addition to teaching photography, Tom leads a research team developing computer detection algorithms for the automatic early detection of diseases, such as breast cancer in mammograms and identification of tuberculosis in sputum slide microscopy in Africa and Asia.
In 2013, Tom was honored as an Alumnus of Notable Achievement by his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, for his work in photography, teaching, the environment, and medical research.
You can learn more about Tom and this work at
The Leesburg School of Photography http://www.leesburgschoolofphotography.com The Image Center http://www.theimagecenter.com Examples of Tom’s Photography 
