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Tips: Skyline Photography
I'm available:
• Afternoons and evenings.
• Weekdays and weekends.
I can come to your home or office.
Or, we can meet elsewhere.
• This website
• Many years of teaching at the International Center of Photography (Bio), 92nd St. Y (Bio), and elsewhere.
• Years ago, I taught young people at the Nightingale-Bamford School and the Trevor Day School.
• Counseling training at New York University (B.S.S.W, 2000, summa cum laude; M.S.W., 2002).
A two-hour session is $185.
A three-hour session is $235.
Please pay cash or check at the end of the lesson.
Handouts pertinent to your needs are provided at no additional charge.
E-mail support between lessons is provided at no additional charge.
We'll devise assignments to be completed between lessons.
At your lesson, have:
• The camera battery charged, and the camera instruction manual.
• Pen and paper handy.
• Questions ready.
• Photographs set aside in a folder on your computer for easy access.
Select photographs about which you have questions, and some of your "greatest hits."
Please don't have any concerns about showing me your photographs.
I'm not a rip-you-to-shreds-to-build-you-up teacher.
Please fill out this short form.
If you have a question, go to Ask Jim.