Mark Vollmer Snowshoe Photo Tour
Mark Vollmer Snowshoe Photo Tour Information
WHAT: Hope Valley Snowshoe Photography Tour & Slide Show. Mark will lead the tour & present a slide show on winter photography. The event is hosted by Hope Valley Outdoors and Starlight Lodge. If you’d like to stay overnight at the lodge, see details below for rates and reservations. Cost of the event itself is on a donation basis. RSVP’s are welcome. We’d love to know you’re coming! Contact us at hopevalleyoutdoors.com, 530-721-2015, e-mail hopevalleyoutdoors@gmail.com
WHEN & WHERE: Saturday, March 10, 2012 -- Meet at the Starlight Lodge near Woodfords, CA – 6:00 PM Artist’s Reception and Photo Display (photos will be for sale); 7:00 PM Slide Show. We will learn to compose a variety of winter images & enjoy Mark's beautiful photos. Starlight Lodge is a wonderful retreat in the pines a mile south of Woodfords along Hwy. 89 towards Markleeville. Woodfords is about an hour’s drive south from Reno via Hwys. 395 and 88.
Sunday, March 11, 2012 -- Snowshoe photo tour at 9:00 AM, meet at the Yurt in Hope Valley, Hwy. 88/89, Pickett’s Junction, CA.
Rooms are available at Starlight Lodge. For reservations and directions to the lodge, contact 530-694-9691, e-mail kylescabin@gmail.com. For details, click on (or copy & paste): http://www.kylescabin.com/details.htm
MARK VOLLMER BIOGRAPHY:
Mark Vollmer is an award-winning outdoor photographer & instructor, and freelance writer based in Reno, Nevada. His illustrated feature articles have appeared in Nevada Magazine, and his images have been widely published in regional books, calendars and brochures. He authored and co-photographed the best-selling 2003 coffee table book, Tahoe Rim Trail, Exploring the Jewel. His 2010 DVD “StorySongs: From the Soul of the American West”, a collaboration matching Vollmer’s photography with original music of Jim Eaglesmith & co-produced/published by David Blonski, continues to be a local favorite. Mark chooses to use the 35mm format camera for its lightweight versatility that enables him to move easily in the wilderness in search for nature’s special moments of light.
Mark’s love of photography began with family outings to the Grand Canyon and other Southwest locales as a youngster in Arizona, and later while earning his geology degree in Northern Arizona University. He enjoys sharing with photo workshop students his knowledge and passion for the West that grew out of these early journeys. A student of Galen Rowell, Frans Lanting and David Muench, Mark has taught photo classes of his own through Washoe County Parks, the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, Elderhostel, Great Basin Outdoor School, Hope Valley Outdoors, and the Community Education divisions of Truckee Meadows Community College & Washoe County School District. In April 2007, TMCC awarded Mark its Excellence in Teaching for the Continuing Education Division. Mark also photographs fragile habitats endangered by encroaching development for local non-profit groups. His photographs have hung in galleries in Reno, Sacramento, and South Lake Tahoe.
For more information, contact Mark at (775)323-2074, mark_e_vollmer@yahoo.com.
