Last Year's 2010 Symposium Schedule

Friday, March 12th Saturday, March 13th
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Friday Session

7:30 am

Registration desk opens

7:30 am - 4:00 pm

Give It Your Best Shot registration in the East Hall

8:00 am

Main Hall Opens

  • Continental Breakfast
  • Trade show and Presenter’s Gallery
  • Portfolio Reviews and Individual Photography Sessions begin
8:30 am - 8:45 am
Stuart Scofield

Welcome to Shooting the West XXII

Stuart Scofield (Winnemucca, Nevada)
Chair, Shooting the West

Stuart will also be teaching a workshop.

Cindy Baldauf
8:45 am

Cindy Baldauf (Pittsboro, Indiana)
Master of Ceremonies

8:45 am - 9:00 am

Winnemucca at Work Image Show

Student images show from last year’s Winnemucca at Work workshop.

9:00 am - 9:30 am
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Latest Camera Hardware and Software News

Gordon Allen (Reno & Carson City, Nevada), owner of two of the largest (and best!) camera stores in the West, will share his knowledge of all the latest products and trends in equipment.

9:45 am - 10:30 am
Tom Bol

Lighting Gone Wild — Lighting for Action Sports

Tom Bol (Fort Collins, Colorado) will discuss the use of battery powered strobe packs to produce those spectacular shots for the extreme sports industry.

Tom will also be teaching a workshop.

10:45 am - 11:30 am
Taki Telonidis

Focusing on the West

Taki Telonidis (Salt Lake City, Utah) discusses his move from the East coast to the West, and shows examples of the radio and television work he’s produced for the Western Folklife Center.

Taki and Hal Cannon will also be teaching a workshop.

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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Hasselblad News

Jeff Payne (Denver, Colorado) will discuss the latest news and products from Hasselblad.

1:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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Epson News

Peter Sorenson (Epson representative) will discuss the latest news and products from Epson.

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Whit Deschner

Movement, Humor, and Montage Mayhem with a Mediocre Camera

Whit Deschner (Baker City, Oregon) incorporates fate, taking pictures with low-end dslr's, his Parkinson's disease and accompanying “rapid-fire” picture taking… and lots of other wacky and entertaining stuff.

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Jay Dusard

La Frontera and the West

Jay Dusard (Douglas, Arizona) will describe his book, La Frontera: the United States Border with Mexico. He will also cover his lifelong project photographing working cowboys.

Jay will also be teaching a workshop.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Friday Evening Session

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Art Show, Book Signing, and Reception

Art, wine, food, and good company.

Di An Putnam
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm

Mayor’s Welcome

Di An Putnam (Winnemucca, Nevada)

7:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Doris Dwyer

Margaret Bourke-White — Pioneering Photographer

In this Chautauqua presentation, Doris Dwyer (Fallon, Nevada) will allow us to share Margaret Bourke-White's fascinating life as the first (among many firsts) female war correspondent.

8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Saturday Session

7:30 am

Registration desk opens

7:30 am - 10:00 am

Give It Your Best Shot registration in the East Hall

8:00 am

Main Hall Opens

  • Continental Breakfast
  • Trade show and Presenter’s Gallery
  • Portfolio Reviews and Individual Photography Sessions begin
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Mark Citret

Photographing the Non-Descript

Mark Citret (Daly City, California) will discuss his interest in shopping carts, place settings, guard rails, storefronts, back alleys… and other “commonplace” photographic subjects.

Mark also teaches our Portfolio Reviews.

9:30 am - 11:30 am
Lori Cobb

A Life in Pictures

Jodi Cobb’s (Washington, D.C.) thirty-year career as a staff photographer with National Geographic has taken her to more than sixty countries around the globe. She’ll share a lifetime’s worth of stories and images with us.

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Lunch

  • No host lunch available at the Convention Center
  • Jodi Cobb and Jay Dusard book signings
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
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Great Basin College Image Show

Student’s images from the Fall Semester Art 141 class at the Winnemucca campus of GBC.

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
Duane McGarva

Shooting from a Tripod with Four Legs and Two Ears

Duane McGarva (Likely, California) discusses the pleasures and advantages of photographing from the back of a horse.

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
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Range Outback Photo Contest 2010

C.J. Hadley (Carson City, Nevada) and Marilyn Newton (Reno, Nevada) will announce the winners of this year’s contest, and talk about why the images were chosen.

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Give It Your Best Shot

Awards presentations and winner’s comments.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Saturday Evening Session

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6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Give It Your Best Shot Gala

  • Art, wine, food, and good company... again!
  • Raffle drawing and prizes
8:30 pm

Closing Comments