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Walk with Joe Standart – Improve Your Photography Skills on Smartphone or SLR Cameras
Join the East Haddam and Lyme Land Trusts for a walk with photographer Joe Standart to gain insight into picture taking. Joe will teach the techniques, settings and editing options on a smart phone and/or SLR camera. Many of the concepts apply to all cameras. In particular at Devil’s Hopyard, Joe will give insight into photographing the moving water of the dramatic Chapman Falls waterfall.
To reserve, a space on the walk, email: education@lymelandtrust.org
Directions: Meet at the Pavilion Parking Lot. Enter at the Devil’s Hopyard State Park main entrance, 366 Hopyard Rd, East Haddam. Take the driveway to the end and around to the left to park near the Pavilion.
Joe is an internationally recognized award-winning photographer and is a founder of the Lyme Land Trust’s photography program, Imagining Lyme – A Visual Exploration of Lyme’s Preserves.
East Haddam Land Trust encourages participants to consider submitting online their nature photographs to the land trust for possible inclusion in its 2027 calendar. For more details, please see: ehlt.org/photo-calendar
Participants are encouraged to submit photographs to Imagining Lyme, Lyme Land Trust’s amateur photography program.You do not have to reside in Lyme, but photos must be taken in Lyme in the places below. Photographs taken at Devil’s Hopyard during this walk will be accepted. The deadline for submission of Fall Photos is December 31, 2025. Three photos of distinction will be chosen.
- Lyme Preserves owned and/or managed by the Lyme Land Trust, Town of Lyme, and The Nature Conservancy. View a map of the preserves
- Pollinator/wildlife habitat with native vegetation– May be in a backyard, preserve or in a Lyme Pollinator Pathway garden in Lyme, CT
- Trail 53- the sky above Lyme.
- Devil’s Hopyard, East Haddam, CT
