'Photographing the Southwest Landscape: from Iconic Images to Intimate Scenes'

Steve Weaver is an award-winning professional landscape and nature photographer as well as an academic geologist working as the technical director of geology at Colorado College. He has been practicing the art of nature photography for over 40 years and travels throughout North America pursuing his creative passion of capturing the beauty and wonders of the natural world. Weaver has provided many images for Colorado College including all of the State of the Rockies report covers and posters as well numerous images for Admissions publications. His work can be viewed on his website.

This lecture will showcase a photographic tour of landscape photography of the Southwest. Photographs will include iconic images of classic locations such as national parks and monuments as well as lesser known areas in the region. In addition to iconic “grand landscapes”, it will also feature some more intimate images photographed for their artistic qualities that showcase the art of the natural world. Steve will discuss his approach to seeing and extracting images from the natural environment that go beyond the typical nature photograph “snapshot” and help the audience to make their own better photographs.