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Join Bob Krist and Michael Clark at the Rockport Opera House Tuesday, August 21st, at 7:30pm.
Bob Krist is a freelance photographer whose work appears regularly in magazines such as National Geographic Traveler, Islands, and Smithsonian. He is contributing editor at both National Geographic Traveler and Outdoor Photographer magazines. His books include: A Photo Tour of New York, Caribbean and Secrets of Lighting on Location. His how-to book, Spirit of Place: The Art of Professional Travel Photography, was hailed by American Photographer magazine as "simply the best book about travel photography we've ever read." His coffeetable book "In Tuscany" with author Frances Mayes, spent a month on the NY Times bestseller list. Bob is a great workshop leader; enthusiastic, knowledgeable and sensitive to student needs. This will be his fifteenth year at The Workshops.
Michael Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, and mountain bikers in remote locations around the world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong graphics and dramatic lighting to capture fleeting moments of passion, gusto, flair and bravado in the outdoors. Balancing extreme action with subtle details, striking portraits and wild landscapes, he creates images for the editorial, advertising and stock markets worldwide.
As a former physicist Michael has worked on both sides of the technical revolution – helping refine the technology and using it for his current profession. Michael has worked as a professional photographer since 1996 and added digital photography to his repertoire in 2003. While Michael still shoots some film, mostly medium format, the lion’s share of his images are now produced with high-resolution digital cameras. He has been featured in Outdoor Photographer
Maine Media Workshops invites the entire community to the Rockport Opera House, 6 Central Street, for our free Master Series event!