If you thought you had to travel to exotic locales to photograph captivating subjects, think again. Award-winning natural history and conservation photographer Clay Bolt shows you how to find, approach, and photograph bees and other fascinating insects in your own backyard with spectacular results. Learn to work with available light and shallow depth of field to create captivating images. Explore a variety of off-camera flash setups to enhance color and texture, increase sharpness, and freeze motion. Use wide-angle macro lenses to create surreal images that showcase your subject and its habitat and get Clay’s expert tips for successfully photographing insects in flight.

Clay Bolt is the Manager of Pollinator Conservation for World Wildlife Fund-US and a conservation photographer focused on supporting policy that protects insects from pesticides and other threats. Clay’s words and images have appeared in publications such as National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, and National Wildlife and he is a Senior Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and a past president of the North American Nature Photography Association.

$125 donation will go to Livingston Loves Bee projects to enhance habitat, education, and native pollinator species around Livingston. Learn more on our website.

Email cbnatphoto@gmail.com to register or for more details.