Comox Valley Nature is hosting a public lecture on photography.
Join Terry Thormin for an illustrated talk entitled, Nature Photography in the Comox Valley.
The lecture is on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Rotary Room of the Filberg Seniors Centre at 411 Anderton Ave., Courtenay.
The Comox Valley has a diversity of ecosystems ranging from marine intertidal estuaries, rivers, marshes, forest and subalpine mountain habitats. These habitats are home to an abundance of organisms. Nature photography is critical for documenting habitat and species diversity in the area. These images can also serve as a record of biodiversity and can generate an increased interest in nature by the general public.
Thormin is an accomplished photographer with an impressive collection of images that include landscapes, plants, fungi and a variety of animals such as insects, spiders, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals. Thormin has worked for a private ecological consulting company based in Edmonton, doing mostly bird work, and much of it in the Canadian Arctic. He also freelanced for a couple of years before joining the staff of the then Provincial Museum of Alberta (now the Royal Alberta Museum) as a foreground artist working on dioramas. He then switched to the newly formed Invertebrate Zoology Program where he stayed until he retired in 2006. He now lives in Comox. Thormin also leads the Nature Photography Group of CVN.
This is an excellent opportunity for the public to learn more about nature in the Comox Valley and nature photography.