Field trips are a great way for PSC members to get acquainted, to learn, to share photographic knowledge with others, and to visit some interesting places and events. Past PSC field trips have included many locations close to home such as Point Park, Coolidge Park, downtown night shoots, and the TN Valley Railroad Museum and numerous areas away from Chattanooga, such as Cumberland Island, Callaway Gardens, Nashville, Atlanta, and the Okefenokee Swamp, and once, all the way to Colorado.   Upcoming PSC field trips are listed below. You are invited to attend but do let the leader know you are planning to be there.

Saturday, May 19 - Gibbs Gardens, Ball Ground, GA Meet at the Antique Mall in East Ridge, at 7:30 a.m. behind the Cracker Barrell. Gibbs Gardens just opened on March 1, and is already a popular place - written up in Southern Living magazine and on PBS. It is located 1 hour north of Atlanta, in the triangle between Interstate 575 and Georgia 400. Sign up with Wendell Gordy, but please purchase your ticket online ahead of time to be sure to get in on May 19, at http://gibbsgardens.com/

Admission:
Adults, $20
Seniors (age 65+), $18
Child (3-17), $18
Tram Ticket - $5

Visitors to Gibbs Gardens will be amazed by the diversity and breadth of its 16 artistically designed garden venues and dazzled by the four feature gardens:

Japanese Gardens, at more than 40 acres is the largest in the nation.

Monet Waterlily Gardens, featuring 140 varieties of unique lilies and a replica of the bridge in Monet's Garden at Giverny (outside Paris).

Arbor Crest Manor House Gardens, located on the highest ridge in northeast Cherokee County, where seven flowering terraces flow seamlessly down 150 feet of elevation from Arbor Crest Manor House to the Valley Gardens.

Daffodil Gardens, 60 varieties of daffodils sweep across more than 50 hillside acres under a canopy of flowering dogwoods and cherry blossoms.

Saturday, May 26, and Friday, July 13, 2012, 5 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. at One North Shore condo club room and balcony overlooking the river and downtown. (For river and downtown evening, fireworks, and night landscape photographs – bring your tripod). Jim Mears, leader. Please sign the signup list or send an email to Jim Mears. Once you sign up, a map and a parking pass will be sent to you. Jim will have sandwich stuff and soft drinks.

If you have a location in mind for a field trip and wish to share it with others, contact the PSC Field Trip Director. Anyone can suggest a location or lead a field trip. The current Field Trip Director is Wendell Gordy