| "Good Photographers are Life-Long Learners." Presented by Greg Ferguson |
| By Richard Nichols |
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Following, you will find Greg Ferguson's lecture to the Sweetwater Camera Club taped April 10th, 2008 entitled "Good Photographers are Life-Long Learners." This presentation lasts just over 60 minutes. Please turn on your audio.
In the infinite world of photography there are a number of ways to get started, but once a person has decided upon photography as a hobby or a career it soon becomes clear that to be a photographer,
 one has to be a perpetual student of the world. Greg Ferguson has taken one of the strongest and most logical paths available to aspiring photographers today. Combining his natural talent for image making with an eye for photographic opportunity and an insatiable hunger for photographic knowlege, Greg has become quite accomplished at his art and craft. It hasn't hurt that he seeks out the best speakers, teachers, courses, and workshops in the field, including Neil Chapin of the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, George Lepp, John Shaw, Galen Rowell, Marc Muench and Art Morris. Ask Ferguson to make a bad photo and he will tell you he already threw that one away. What he has left is nothing short of spectacular.
That's where Greg fits in-- perfectly. Many years of study at the feet of master nature photographers and Photoshop specialists have paid off royally through Greg's exuberant renditions of fabulous and expansive scenery, emotionally moving images of wild animals in their natural surroundings, and spiritually awakening environmental moods-- mornings with vapor, evenings with rain, sunrises and shadows, late afternoons with their orange yellow glows.
And now for a special treat: Here is one of Greg Ferguson's multimedia presentations from his 2008 visit to our club:
As a photographer with ever-evolving integrity, his spirited execution of deeply detailed landscapes and animals on the short list for extinction are truly larger than life. He not only seems at ease in any environment, a viewer can sense Greg's calm, studious sensibilities that he invests in his work.
Greg sums up his passion for photography:
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