Saturday, March 3, 2012. 9:00 - 4:30 "Digital Layering & Collage " SynVis Photo Academy by Sheila Babbie (1 space left) Sat, March 17, 9:00 to 4:00 "Photoshop Elements Basics" SynVis Photo Academy Hands-on. for beginners. Saturday, March 24, 2012. All Day "Moab Photo Adventure" Moab, Utah Hands-on Workshop ~ 1 Space Left Friday, April 6, 2012. 9:00 to 4:00 "Floral Fantasy Flower Workshop" SynVis Photo Academy - Any Digital Camera OK Creative Hands-on with your Camera! Saturday, April 7, 2012, 9:00 to 4:00 "Floral Fantasy Flower Workshop" SynVis Photo Academy - Any Digital Camera OK Creative Hands-on with your Camera! Friday, April 13, 2012 "Nine Mile Canyon Field Trip" Nine Mile Canyon, Utah Rock Art Supreme! Friday, April 20, 2012 "Vernal Rock Art & Fantasy Canyon" Vernal, Utah area Photo Field Trip! ~ 1 Space Left May 19-21 "Shadows & Slots (class is full)" Page, Arizona Solar Eclipse & Slot Canyon Field Trip Friday, June 8, 9:00 to 5:00 "Arrested Motion Hands-on Workshop" Steve's Home Classroom Creative Triggered Photography! Saturday, June 9, 9:00 to 5:00 "Arrested Motion Hands-on Workshop" Steve's Home Classroom Creative Triggered Photography! July 24-29, 2012 "Ouray 25th Annual Summer Workshop" Ouray, Colorado Special Anniversary Edition ~ 2 Spaces Left Ouray July Workshop ~ 2 spaces Left! Special 25th anniversary edition of my Ouray Summer workshop. For more info a ..   Need Your Sensor Cleaned? Steve now offers sensor cleaning for digital SLR cameras. If you have black s ..   New Remote Consulting Service Steve is excited to announce a new remote consulting service. We link computer s ..   Gift Certificates For Any Occasion! A gift certificate makes the perfect present for that photographer in your famil ..   Fay & Steve at New Blue Pig Gallery! We are both excited to announce our acceptance in the new Blue Pig Gallery in Pa ..   New Lightroom 3 Instructional DVD A new 6 1/2 hour DVD of 37 movies to help you get the most out of Lightroom! ..

Steve Traudt Photo by Fay Timmerman

Raised in Nebraska, Traudt moved to Grand Junction in 1987 where he and wife, Fay Timmerman, established Quilt Junction and Gallery 412 which they operated for 9 years. The Gallery featured appearances by such notables as Galen Rowell and John Fielder. Steve currently teaches photography at several venues including the SynVis Photo Academy inside the Fabric Arts Studio (Grand Junction); Ouray Weehawken Creative Arts; Moab Photo Symposium and for the Black Canyon Camera Club (Cedaredge). Steve also taught for 18 years at Mesa State College. Steve also conducts a variety of photography workshops in Colorado; Utah; Arizona and New Mexico. He presents SynVis seminars around the country. In addition, he is a certified scuba diver, a writer and a pharmacist.

In a dusty attic at the age of 10, Traudt chanced upon some old darkroom items belonging to his father. He ordered fresh paper and chemicals from the “Monkey Ward” catalog and a lifelong interest was soon born.

He's exhibited photographs extensively around the world while earning many awards. Steve has led photo trips to such exotic locales as Costa Rica and the Galapagos. His magazine articles have appeared in various publications including Nature Photographer magazine. His images have appeared in several calendars and books. He's a member of The North American Nature Photography Association; The National Association of Photoshop Professionals and The Photographic Society of America from which he holds the honor of Associate.

Traudt calls his photographs Synergistic Visions. He explains synergism as the cooperative interaction of several elements to yield a superior result. For Traudt, photography is synergism of such elements as the brain, emotions, vision, lenses and the camera. Since photography is both art and craft, Traudt views this synergism as a marriage of left-brain and right-brain activities.

"In today's world, we're in such a hurry; never looking up or down, only straight ahead. I make photographs which cause the viewer to pause, even for a moment, and realize all the remarkable events in our world awaiting discovery."

Interested in a variety of subjects, his current work explores the form and texture of urban and natural landscapes. Traudt enjoys documenting the incongruities of everyday scenes and also employs various techniques to create emotive abstractions. His photographs are available in signed limited editions and are available for stock use.

Click for a 1.5 minute QuickTime movie of Steve Large file (about 50 mb). Produced by Colorado Public ETV, with a grant from the Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture.