The VPS guest speaker in April is photographer and naturalist Wayne Wolfersberger who will discuss the strategies and techniques that foster successful wildlife photography. A well-known educator and nature photographer, Wolfersberger maintains that outstanding wildlife images are in many cases the result of careful planning rather than good fortune.

His presentation will comprise photographs of a diverse array of animals including snakes, bears, crayfish and birds, accompanied by the “unique stories” behind the shots. Wolfersberger employs macros as well as long lenses and occasionally shoots at night using only a flashlight as his source of light. During the spring and fall, he teaches a variety of photographic courses for Fairfax County’s Adult and Community Education organization and can be found each summer in Yellowstone National Park, working for the U.S. National Park Service.

Wolfersberger has been a photographer for the U.S. Navy and a commercial photography firm in the Washington metropolitan area and has lectured on a wide range of topics to photographic organizations in the mid- Atlantic region, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Among the dozens of nature photographs on his w e b s i t e “Nature is Wild,” at www.waynewolfersberger.com, are “Bison Fight at Nez Perce,” an mage of pelicans squabbling over fish, several landscapes and a shot of a kayaker taking a tumble in roiling waters. His photographs have appeared in “Nature’s Best Photography” magazine and a variety of other publications, as well as on calendars, post cards and in fine art exhibits. He appears with VPS on April 1.