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2015 NANPA Summit

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The 2015 NANPA Summit is shaping up to be a great event.

A star-studded group of keynote speakers include

  • Flip Nicklin
  • Frans Lanting
  • Nevada Wier
  • and Dewitt Jones

The breakout speakers vary from familiar names as well as new and emerging talent and plenty of viewpoints.

Topics include:

  • serious, hard-core Lightroom techniques
  • preparing work for fine art exhibits (including a look at the “before and after”)
  • how-to topics galore, such as landscape, birds and multimedia
  • plus conservation topics and personal projects.

The pre-Summit Boot Camp will be back and filled with how-to and inspiration.  For the working professionals, a Pro Day on Sunday will be packed with meaty business topics and discussion.  The tradeshow gives a chance to visit vendors offering products, tours and services.  More details are being worked out. But for now, put February 19-22, 2015 on your calendar. The 2015 NANPA Summit is an event not to be missed. 

Revealing and Reveling in the Beauty of Native North American Bees and Wasps – Story and Photographs © Clay Bolt

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Metallic Green Bee (Augochloropsis metallica) visits a Black-eye

A Metallic Green Bee (Augochloropsis metallica) visits a Black-eyed Susan.

Since Niall Benvie and I first developed Meet Your Neighbours in 2009 I’ve seen my fair share of amazing, beautiful and sometimes bizarre creatures. From the beginning, I’ve worked almost exclusively in the land that surrounds my home near the Southern Appalachians in upstate South Carolina, USA. Rather naïvely, I suspected that after a short period of time I would begin to run out of subjects to photograph but nothing could be further from the truth. Seldom does a day go by that I don’t see a creature or plant that I’ve never seen before in the wild, anywhere! As Piotr Naskrecki points out in his fantastic book The Smaller Majority, “Over 99% of life on Earth is smaller than your finger.” It’s little wonder then that the careful observer will be awarded with a lifetime of discovery.

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