Event happens on Saturday March 13, 2010 from 5 - 8 pm.  Sweetwater Camera Club members and friends are invited to the grand opening of the Serenbe photography Center in Palmetto, Georgia. The center is offering a wide range of photography workshops and classes as well as full-service printing studio in which you can print your own work using a range of digital processes.  Bring this invitation at the end of the article to schedule 1-hour free printing time. 

The grand opening will feature an exhibition of instructors from the center.  Instructors include Frank Hunter, Peter Essick, Billy Howard, Marilyn Suriani, Kathryn Kolb, Greg Newington, Mark Maio and more.  Kathryn Kolb is scheduled to be a presenter at a Sweetwater camera club meeting in the spring.

March 5  at 6:30 pm or August 21 at 6:30 am.

There's a special opportunity to photograph Ruby Falls in Chattanooga, TN.  A top tour guide will take a limited number of photographers to the most scenic locations in the cavern and falls.  Photographers will be allowed to take unique photographs of the cavern and waterfall.   For those photographers with a competitive spirit, you may enter a Photo Contest with prizes.  (No information about what the prizes are).

Ledra Davis, the owner and president of
Natural Connections Photo Workshops announces a great special offer to Sweetwater Camera Club members - If you sign up for their Savannah/Jekyll Island workshop by Monday, February 22nd, you can save an additional $100 off the $995 price listed on their website for one of the most stunningly beautiful photographic adventures you will find ANYWHERE this year. 

Please visit www.naturalconnectionsphoto.com at your earliest convenience to find out about this wonderful photo training company and the fabulous image making opportunities they have in store for you. For a list of workshops, continue reading:

By Ledra Davis

With this workshop you get it all - an amazing cross section of Savannah and its surrounding areas.   With shoots of historic Savannah, beaches, night scenes and night life, cemeteries, parks, old plantations and lighthouses, this is one workshop that is sure to please. 

Immortalized by the best seller, 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,' Savannah is an 18th century village that lives resolutely in the present.  The city brings together an exotic history, a sub-tropical natural environment and an obvious desire to keep true to its Southern traditions.  Savannah is arguably one of the South's