Passing this post on from Fred Miranda's site....
Hi Everybody,
I just wanted to let you all know about an amazing eight-day festival celebrating Southwest landscape photography happening this July in Sedona. It's being produced by our local artists coalition non-profit, the Sedona Arts Center, who had the long-range vision to take a germ of an idea (mine) and run with it. I'm functioning as the Creative Director and am proud to say we are bringing some really amazing photographers to Sedona for the week.
Jack Dykinga is our Master Photographer-in-Residence for the week, and he, along with Tom Till, Larry Lindahl, Chris Robinson & Rob Sheppard of Outdoor Photographer magazine, Jeff Kida & Peter Ensenberger of Arizona Highways magazine, FM's own Floris van Breugel, Laurent Martres (publisher of the award-winning Photographing the Southwest series), and a host of other great photographers will be the individual and panel discussion presenters for the three day PhotoFest Symposium.
The ticket prices are incredibly reasonable, the program extensive, with a number of additional evening events, a special "Conservation & Landscape Photography" symposium presentation, lots of opportunities to shoot in the field and interact with many of these fine photographers, and two stunning fine art landscape photography exhibitions ("Jack Dykinga" & "The Sedona Masters").
There will be a free "Location, Location, Location" seminar each day during the week that will provide a wealth of information about the best spots to photograph
Sedona during our dramatic monsoon season. And you'll be able to enter the Red Rock Open Public Competition and compete for a nice bunch of prizes.
To the mods, I know this is right on the edge of being pretty commercial, but it's a non-profit arts education school and artists coalition, with a portion of the proceeds going to some great conservation charities. It's completely dedicated to landscape photography and the symposium, in total, will be an amazing workshop over three days covering a wide range of topics of great interest to FMers.
For more information, the schedule and ticketing information:
www.sedonaphotofest.com
Look forward to meeting many of you this summer!
Sincerely,
Derek von Briesen

