Natural History

Get to know your camera shooting nature with Fort Tryon Park lover and photographer Michael Palma Mir! Capture the park’s natural assets, such as rock outcrops, foliage, trees, and plants from behind the lens. Michael will discuss nature photography strategies for dealing with difficult lighting situations, lens and zoom choice for perspective control, and composition, […]

Join expert mycologist Paul Sadowski, of the New York Mycological Society and the New York Botanical Garden, for a Fungus Tour of Inwood Hill Park, one of New York City’s oldest woodlands. We will walk among the Park’s varied habitats in search of mushrooms large and small, edible, inedible or just plain poisonous. Space is […]