Ken Thompson

Teaches at The Morton Arboretum

Ken Thompson specializes in close-up and macro photography. He currently teaches several subjects at the Morton Arboretum’s Photography Program and for many years was an assistant leader at the Fall Photography Workshop at the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont, TN. Ken’s work concentrates on close-ups of water drops, flowers, and plants. He is also interested in abstracts of these subjects. Ken is the author of two e-books, Introduction to Dragonfly and Butterfly Photography and Introduction to Focus Stacking. 

When asked “why macro and close-ups” Ken responds that close-ups show more compositions and stories than can ever be recorded and every day is completely different. Plus, when all the landscape photographers have gone home, he can continue taking images of what he calls “The World Within”.