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You’ll be exploring (as conditions permit) Mammoth Hot Springs; Lamar Valley and Hayden Valley; the Yellowstone, Madison, and Gibbon rivers; upper, middle and lower Geyser Basin and Old Faithful Geyser; Grand Prismatic; geothermal areas such as Back Sand Basin and Fountain Paint Pots; the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone; and more! We will set our daily itinerary based on the conditions given to us each day.
Majestic landscapes, wildlife (bison, grisly and black bear), wolves, coyote, pronghorn, big horn, fox, elk, and many bird species. PLUS, spring is when the babies come out, so be sure to keep a keen eye out mothers with babies!
From daylight to dusk, trip coordinators (Mary Jo Cox and Anna DeStefano) will lead a group of six GNPA members per session. Keeping our numbers small allows coordinators to offer attendees the best possible opportunity to capture Yellowstone’s magic.
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Images by Mary Jo Cox
Featured Image by Lisa Westberry.
Saturday, September 23, 2023, is National Public Lands Day. As part of commemorating this day, Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites (Friends) hosts Your State Parks Day, a day when volunteers arrive at Parks throughout the state to participate in park projects and give back to the places that offer us a wonderful setting in which to enjoy nature. Friends is a Conservation Partner with GNPA and would love to have a photographer on hand at each park to record the efforts of the volunteers.
This year, Friends are launching a state-wide project to help park guests and volunteers learn about birds, bats, and bees, and the crucial role these and other pollinators provide in our day-to-day world. Projects will include trail clean up, installing bat boxes, beautifying areas around park offices and entrances, sprucing up or planting pollinator gardens, and a variety of other tasks depending on individual Park needs.
Times may vary from park to park, but most participate from 9 AM to 2 PM. No problem if you have an afternoon commitment and need to leave a bit early. At some parks drinks and lunch will be provided and work usually stops between 12 and 1 when everyone gathers to eat. Entry into the Parks will be free for anyone volunteering and all volunteers will receive a free t-shirt.
Friends is asking for GNPA photographers to take photos of the volunteers at work. Photos will be used on social media, in Friends publications and mailings, and may be archived to promote Your State Parks Day in future years. Our partners at Friends provide full photo credit to both the photographer and to GNPA whenever an image is used.
GNPA members are mostly nature photographers, not event or portrait photographers. However, Your State Parks Day is an easy event to shoot. Volunteers are glad to be there and love being photographed while they work. No special equipment is needed, just a camera. If you’re not there, someone will be taking photos with a cell phone – great for social media, but not so great for print purposes. Photographing this event is much like taking candid photos of your own family, including the group shots where someone is invariably looking in the wrong direction!
It’s a no-stress event. Interested?? Please email Lisa Westberry at cons_dnr@gnpa.org to get more information and/or sign up. She can provide more details on how to shoot the event, which park is near you, answer any questions, etc. Mark September 23 on your calendar and bring your camera to a state park for a fun morning!
Photo Credit for above three images: Jimmy Cash
GNPA has been asked to solicit members for their photos of past Solar Eclipse and Blood Moon events for possible exhibition at the Fernbank Science Center. The exhibit will be comprised of about 40 images. These can be single photos or a set of photos that could portray the waxing and waning of either or both events in 5 to 7 photos.
There is no submission fee.
NOTE: If you submit your images and they are selected, you will be responsible for printing, matting/framing, and delivering framed photos to the Fernbank Science Center on a date yet to be determined.
This is not a competition but an opportunity to have your photos selected for exhibition.
Deadline to submit these entries is September 10th @ 11:59 pm.
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