John Fielder celebrates park service’s 100th anniversary

Images of Dinosaur National Monument will be featured at John Fielder's presentation on Nov. 3 at CMC Vail Valley at Edwards, to commemorate the National Park Service's 100th anniversary. Photo John Fielder
Images of Dinosaur National Monument will be featured at John Fielder’s presentation on Nov. 3 at CMC Vail Valley at Edwards, to commemorate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary. Photo John Fielder
Rocky Mountain National Park will be featured in a slide show presentation by John Fielder on Nov. 3 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. The presentation will be at Colorado Mountain College Vail Valley at Edwards. Photo John Fielder
Rocky Mountain National Park. Photo John Fielder

EDWARDS – The National Park Service turned 100 on Aug. 5, 2016, and to celebrate, on Nov. 3 Colorado Mountain College Vail Valley at Edwards is hosting a special evening with Summit County’s John Fielder, Colorado’s popular landscape photographer. In an original multimedia presentation, Fielder will share many of his signature images of Colorado’s four national parks and nine monuments, which he captured while traveling by foot and by boat.

Backed by a soundtrack, Fielder will provide comm

entary during his presentation, detailing his 35 years as a photographer, publisher, conservationist and teacher.

The evening is free and open to the public, and begins at 5:30 p.m. with a

Colorado landscape photographer John Fielder will give a multimedia presentation to celebrate the National Park Service's 100th anniversary, featuring images such as this of Hovenweep National Monument, on Nov. 3 at Colorado Mountain College Vail Valley at Edwards. Photo John Fielder
Hovenweep National Monument. Photo John Fielder.

reception. The multimedia slide show begins at 6 p.m., and books will be available both before and after the presentation for sale and signing, including two of Fielder’s latest publications, “Wildflowers of Colorado” and “Colorado’s Yampa River: Free Flowing & Wild.”

For more information, call 970-569-2900 or go to coloradomtn.edu or johnfielder.com