Photographs provide a more concrete way of recording recollections than sketching portraits in sand or dictating memoirs to an empty jam jar. Preserve precious memories with today's Groupon: for $59, you get one enrollment in Total Exposure: The Ultimate Nature Photography Crash Course with Outdoor Photo Workshops, located in St. Petersburg (a $199 value).
Outdoor Photo Workshops packs together classroom instruction, in-field work, and image critique like sardines inside a camera bag. Instructors Jason Hahn and Jim Caldwell are seasoned moment-freezers with decades of combined experience in fields including magazine and stock photography. The nature photography class lasts up to six hours and teaches would-be shutterbugs the tricks to taking better shots—including how to best calibrate their cameras for outdoor photography—then tests their skills by visiting a local park rife with wildlife, scenic landscapes, and roving teeter-totters. Classes are scheduled regularly through June; check the online schedule for dates and times.
There are three different photography workshops to choose from but this Groupon is valid for any or all of them.
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