Nature Photography Class

As most of you know, i'm an upper division student at Brooks Institute of photography. The past few sessions I've been taking portrait classes which have been wonderful, but pile on a few portrait assignments a week plus all the family sessions etc.. i've been doing the past few months and you are one busy person. Brooks is year-round and goes by 7-week courses. During those 7 weeks you take one photo class and one General education class. Last session I took a portrait photo class and two general education classes in anticipation for this nature photo class. This session the only class I am taking is the Nature class taught by Ralph Clevenger(awesome teacher and photographer... http://www.ralphclevenger.com/). This class has been a complete change of pace, and it has called for a little bit of adjustment. It is wonderful, I am forced to slow down and enjoy nature on an even deeper level than hiking and rock climbing. This class is allowing me to look at things in nature as photographs again, (not as scenes to take photos of people in). My passion of photography started by taking macro shots of flowers... yet throughout the past two years at Brooks i've been distracted and I've lacked the motivation/time to slow down and enjoy the little things in life again. So long story short, I'm completely loving this nature photo class. Here are some of the recent stuff I've been taking.
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This is a little leaf of some sort with a few beads of dew dangling on it