For 2025 CELLPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY in the Forest - Instructor Kim SignoretPaar

Learn to use the camera you have with you all the time!

Create spectacular photographs with your cellphone anywhere you are, everywhere you go. You can easily practice and add to your visual memory and storytelling.

Each of the four sessions will include demonstration of an aspect of creating photos on your phone, a photo-shoot in the forest, and then hands-on editing/processing.

These classes are open to photography enthusiasts at all levels of experience and geared to enhance your visual perspective.

Take your photographic skills to the next level.

Recommend to fully participate, please download and install apps prior to coming up the mountain.

Kim tells stories with her camera. She creates images of people and places with a sense of how the moment feels and at the same time searching for something deeper and referential, opening the curtain for the viewer to see, imagine, feel.

Her journey began at thirteen when she won her first competition with a B&W photo of a boy in a tree, sparking a dream of becoming a National Geographic photographer. After earning a journalism degree from the University of Iowa, she moved west in 1980, building a career in public relations, publishing, and fundraising in California and Mexico.

Since 2009, Kim has dedicated herself to photography. Her work has earned significant recognition, including Best of Show at the International Exhibition of Photography at the San Diego County Fair in both 2014 and 2023. In 2024, four of her photographs were juried into an exhibition at the legendary Soho Photo Gallery in New York City, curated by Michael Foley and the American Photographic Artists New York Chapter.

Beyond exhibiting and competing, Kim shares her passion by teaching iPhone photography at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Retirement Center and other organizations. She also served as president of the Poly Photo Club at Balboa Park in 2022 and 2023.

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