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Award-Winning Photojournalist Offers Four-Part Program

Jim McNutt will teach patrons how to see photo possibilities, compose better images and how to use your camera more effectively at the Peters Township Public Library.

Dig your camera out of hiding, and learn how to take great photographs by an award-winning photojournalist!

Jim McNutt will instruct a four-part series at the  Sept. 22, 29 and Oct. 1, 6.

McNutt has been a photojournalist for the Observer-Reporter newspaper for the past 41 years and a former adjunct professor at Washington and Jefferson College for 22 years. 

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His striking photos have captured people, wildlife, nature and everyday life. 

He's won the 2011 PA Associated Press Award—First Place Feature for "Little Man, Big Shot" and the 2011 Keystone Publishers Award—Honorable Mention for "Sawyer Glacier in Alaska."

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During the four-part series, McNutt will teach patrons how to see photo possibilities, compose better images and how to use your camera more effectively. The cost for the classes is $75. 

The dates and times are as follows: 

  • Thursday, Sept. 22 from 7-9 p.m. 
  • Thursday, Sept. 29 from 7-9 p.m.
  • Saturday, Oct. 1 at 9-11 a.m. (meet at the library then travel to a remote location for a photo session)
  • Thursday, Oct. 6 from 7-9 p.m.

Register at the library's circulation desk. Visit www.observer-reporter.com/or/mcnuttgallery/.


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