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Classes at the Library's Viridian Event Center

Hobby 101: Capturing Milky Way NightScapes

Learn something exciting or pick up a new hobby at these weekly classes covering a wide range of topics. Classes are perfect for beginners and taught by experienced, passionate instructors.

“Half the park is after dark” is a catchy slogan used by our national parks, and I'm encouraging people to discover this unique world with their photographic night vision. You might say I'm inviting you to "to the dark side" of landscape photography!

During the past two decades I've been able to avoid the crowds in our public lands and find amazing beauty and solitude in places that are oftentimes crawling with tourists in the daytime — it's like a whole new world of photographic opportunity!

In my presentation I hope to not only get people excited about "nightscapes" but help them find new ways of seeing and enhancing their nighttime compositions. If you've tried astrophotography in the past and found it challenging, I will help you break some of the technical barriers and make it more fun and fulfilling.

If you think you've already figured it out, let me assure you that there is much more to learn. I will show you new techniques that are opening up many exciting horizons in the astro-landscape photography genre! In other words, this is for both the beginning and advanced photographer.
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BIO: Royce Bair has been a professional magazine and illustrative advertising photographer for three decades. He is one the early innovators of a genre of night photography some call “nightscapes,” and has often been called "the founding father of landscape astrophotography." His unique images have received worldwide newspaper and magazine syndication. Royce believes the foreground is just as important as the starry night sky, and may need additional natural or artificial light enhancement for better recognition and aesthetic appreciation. Lecturing throughout the world, Royce has taught various ways to accomplish this, including his public service website on "Low Level Lighting" methods.

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