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July 3, 2008 issue

Grandfather Mountain Camera
Clinic Registration Begins July 15


Story by Corinne SaundersParticipants in the 2006 Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic took pictures of an owl, putting into practice what they learned from the professionals. Photo by Jack Morton

The late Hugh Morton founded the Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic in 1952, and it has been a popular event since then, attracting both working press and amateur photographers who come to learn about news photography from nationally known photojournalists.

Registration begins Tuesday, July 15, for this year’s camera clinic that will take place Saturday and Sunday, August 16 and 17, and includes a country buffet Saturday night.

The Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic is free for working press and members of the North Carolina Press Photographers Association and costs $25 for amateur photographers. Online registration begins Tuesday, July 15, for the popular event that typically sells out within two days. Photo by Jack MortonThe clinic is free for members of the working press and of the North Carolina Press Photographers Association and costs $25 for nonprofessionals. Advance online registration is required because the camera clinic is open to a maximum of 165 people.

Typically, four professional photojournalists from across the United States speak at the camera clinic, each presenting a different angle or topic in photojournalism. The final schedule of events will be posted online in about a month, said Landis Wofford, Grandfather Mountain news director.

Grandfather Mountain hosts two photography events—the Nature Photography Weekend in early June and the Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic in August—and both fill up almost instantaneously.

The most recent Nature Photography Weekend sold out in about six hours, and the camera clinic usually sells out in a day or two, Wofford said.
For more information, call 800-468-7325 or click to www.grandfather.com.