Meet Your Neighbours Photographers and the International League of Conservation Photographers team up to photograph National Geographic Society’s 2012 BioBlitz at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
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Meet Your Neighbours Photographers and the International League of Conservation Photographers team up to photograph National Geographic Society’s 2012 BioBlitz at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Greenville, South Carolina – August 16 , 2012 – Meet Your Neighbours is pleased to announce a partnership with the International League of Conservation Photographers to photograph species found at the 2012 BioBlitz at Rocky Mountain National Park for the National Geographic Society. National Geographic will be conducting a new BioBlitz each year until 2016, which is the Centennial of the U.S. National Park Service. NGS defines a BioBlitz as “a 24-hour event in which teams of volunteer scientists, families, students, teachers, and other community members work together to find and identify as many species of plants, animals, microbes, fungi, and other organisms as possible.”
Meet Your Neighbours photographers who will participate in the 2012 event include Karine Aigner, Clay Bolt, Kevin FitzPatrick, Krista Schlyer and Piotr Naskrecki.The mission of the expedition is to capture beautiful portraits of as many of the discovered species as possible. The images will be used to not only promote the event but, more importantly, encourage participants, Coloradans, and viewers on-line and beyond to take a closer look at the wildlife in their own backyard and community. Presentations will also be given at the event by Clay Bolt and Piotr Naskrecki.
Founded in 2009, Meet Your Neighbours is a worldwide photographic initiative, which is dedicated to reconnecting people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps – and enriching their lives in the process. Meet Your Neighbours images have an instantly recognizable look. Each subject is photographed on location in a field studio. A brilliantly-lit white background removes the context, encouraging appreciation of the subject as an individual rather than a species. Their own form constitutes the composition. Seen this way, animals and plants we thought we knew reveal another side of themselves, encourage a second glance, perhaps even renewed interest.
To learn more visit our website at www.meetyourneighbours.net or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/meetyourneighbours.
Contact:
Clay Bolt
clay.meetyourneighbours@gmail.com
198 Jenkins Way
Easley, South Carolina, 29640
USA
PH: 1.864.385.4616
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