Classes Washington, DC

The IT4IT™ Reference Architecture is a vendor-neutral open standard Reference Architecture and value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. IT departments run on IT4IT™ principles and framework reap large rewards in cost savings and automation.  The IT4IT™ Reference Architecture leverages standardized activities, data...

In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to successfully pass the CISSP Training, take the certification exam and become a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.  You will learn how to: Manage security and risk Secure assets Design security framework Secure communication and networks Securely develop...

Feeling overwhelmed? What if you could learn a process for thinking to make better decisions and create better solutions? In this course, you’ll learn and practice techniques to generate breakthrough ideas and solve your most pressing problems. You’ll also discover how to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and see others’ viewpoints...

The introductory flower design is a great course to expand your skills into the world of flower designing covering approximately 8 to 10 different styles of design. We go from American to European to bridal. The course consist of many projects all done in class. All hands on with all your flowers and containers included. We also discuss buying flowers...

Our Design Star comprehensive is a week packed full of learning and designing. It takes you from beginner to designer. We’ve seen amazing things in this class as on the last day we design our own mock wedding and some of the most beautiful work has come out of that final class. It’s approximately 24 styles of design covering every area of designing...

Full Course Title: Managing Chaos: Tools to Set Priorities and Make Decisions Under Pressure Welcome to chaos—otherwise known as the world in which we all work today. Attend this seminar and get proven solutions for managing chaos and minimizing its negative impact. First, you’ll discover how you can harness the energy of a dynamic, though often...

Join our photo lessons at Glen Echo Park, which is one of the excellent locales in the rotation of many DC venues that offer terrific photo opportunities. Dating back to the early 1900’s up through the 60’s, Glen Echo Park was the go-to spot for DC residents and others who were looking for gleeful carnival and amusement park activities, including...

Join Judy Graham for an afternoon photographing the hidden gems and intimate scenes of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC.  We will explore the sixteen acres of terraced gardens, fountains, vistas, orchards and kitchen gardens, and meadows and wooded pathways. We'll explore the gardens concentrating on...

The area surrounding the Capitol has many beautiful fountains and exquisitely maintained gardens.  Join us as we explore the grounds around the Capitol building, fountains at the Library of Congress and the lovely outdoor gardens of the U. S. Botanical Gardens. Learn techniques to capture colorful images within the gardens as well how to use...

For those of us who love to take pictures, it is VERY hard to be confronted with a visual culinary delight in a fancy restaurant and not take a picture! You’ve been there, right? Food presentation has now become an art form. That gorgeous dessert dripping with sauce and calories just HAS to be photographed before it is eaten, right? But it is not...

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) is an architecture framework for the United States Department of Defense that provides structure for a specific stakeholder concern through viewpoints organized by various views. DoDAF defines a set of views that act as mechanisms for visualizing, understanding, and assimilating the broad scope...

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a framework for enterprise architecture that provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise information technology architecture. ArchiMate® 3 is an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture. It complements The Open Group Architectural...

The ArchiMate® 3 Enterprise Architecture modeling language provides a uniform representation for diagrams that describe Enterprise Architectures. It includes concepts for specifying inter-related architectures, specifying viewpoints for selected stakeholders, and language customization mechanisms. It describes and brings different architecture domains...

Each fall and winter hundreds of Bald Eagles congregate along the Lower Susquehanna River below Conowingo Dam in Harford County Maryland. This location sets the stage for some of the best eagle in flight opportunities east of the Mississippi River. Along with the eagles hundreds of photographers return each year. This workshop is an introduction...

EA Principals are excited to announce that we will be in the first wave of accredited training providers to deliver the new updated ArchiMate 3.1 training course. The updated ArchiMate program holds a number of useful additions and improvements for Enterprise Architecture practitioners. The one most valuable improvements to the standard is the addition...