GNPA in Yellowstone: May, 2024! Registration is Open!

GNPA in Yellowstone: May, 2024! Registration is Open!

Back by popular demand, GNPA is returning to Yellowstone for its first “club trip” in five years!

Come capture the wonder of one of America’s favorite national parks!

 

We’re taking TWO sessions this time.

 

May 9th – 13th
May 13th- 17th

 

Picture it…

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.

You’ll encounter…

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!

Small groups…

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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Credit: Mary Jo CoxCredit: Mary Jo CoxCredit: Mary Jo CoxCredit: Mary Jo Cox

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Images by Mary Jo Cox

 

Friends of GA State Parks Needs You – And Your Camera – On September 23rd!

Friends of GA State Parks Needs You – And Your Camera – On September 23rd!

Featured Image by Lisa Westberry.

Photo Credit: Jimmy Cash

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.

Photo Credit: Lisa Westberry

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.

Photo Credit: Lisa Westberry

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!

Photo Credit: Lisa Westberry

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

 

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: FernBank Solar Eclipse and Lunar Blood Moon Photo Exhibit

DEADLINE EXTENDED: FernBank Solar Eclipse and Lunar Blood Moon Photo Exhibit

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.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Submissions due by Midnight of September 10th.
  • To submit multiple entries, you can zip them up and do a single submission, please use the following naming conventions:
    • Naming convention for JPGs: lastname-firstname-title-number-endnumber.jpg
    • Naming convention for zip file: lastname-firstname-totalnumber.jpg

  • No signatures on photos submitted.
  • Maximum of 1200 pixels on the longest side and not exceed 3 MB in size. If sending a set of waxing and waning photos, please number them in numerical order.
  • Photos will be selected by an independent group of experienced photographers in conjunction with staff from the Fernbank Science Center.
  • Notifications of selection will be made by email no later than September 9th with details about delivering to Fernbank. This is a quick turnaround event.
  • Selected images will need to be framed in black wood frames no more than 1.5″ wide, with single white matting from 1″ to 3″ with longest side not to exceed 26″ and no images less than 16″x16″.

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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