A brown-bag presentation on "Photographing the Landscape" will be held at noon Jan. 8 in UNL's Keim Hall, Room 150.
"A good photograph is not one you take, but rather one that you make and that requires you to stop, look and see," said presenter Eric Berg, Community Forestry and Sustainable Landscapes program leader for the Nebraska Forest Service.
The presentation will explore ways to discover and capture the unique personality within every landscape. Participants will learn how to capture key elements in a scene to make more dramatic and artistically appealing photographs, including new ideas for working with light, composition and focus. It will also include a brief history of photography to see how new technology can help capture the uniqueness of the world around us.
This presentation is part of a brown-bag series on "all things green" sponsored by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, the UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL Garden Friends and Friends of Maxwell Arboretum.
Event sponsors hope to bring together a community of on-and-off campus people who care about the environment. There will be time for discussion at each session and, when weather permits, time to walk through the campus landscape.
Future topics include container gardens, attracting birds, garden design and children's gardens.
Participants are invited to bring lunch or dinner, if desired, and ideas or questions. For more information about the brown-bag series, call the Arboretum at 402-472-2971, email arboretum@unl.edu or visit http://arboretum.unl.edu/brown-bags.