2017 Outdoor Photography Workshop Schedule
Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 26-31, 2015
Crossroads Photography Workshops
with the Santa Fe Photography Workshops
By joining us on this workshop you will be very actively sustaining and supporting the remaining wild places and wild birds of prey of the Santa Fe River Basin. The impact of your images will be long lasting and long
appreciated.
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Manchester Center, Vermont: May 2-7, 2017
Crossroads Photography Workshops
with the Santa Fe Photography Workshops
Vermont is often described as a state unlike any others- even its fellow New England neighbors. While most of New England and the Northeast have long ago lost the rural character of their landscape to spreading vacation homes and
a broken rural economy, Vermont has worked hard to maintain the working nature of its landscape. Barns, farms, stone fences, winding dirt roads together visually define what many know as Vermont. Photographers know this and it is why so many come to Vermont to photograph what elsewhere is a vanished landscape.
One of the prime reasons Vermont retains much of its working, rural land is because of the efforts of the Vermont Land Trust (VLT). To date, the VLT has successfully protected from development over half a million acres which equals almost 10% of the state. This is a remarkable achievement but there is still much work to be done and the VLT needs help getting their message and good work to all corners of the state.
We will be working with the VLT for the entire week, visiting partner dairy and organic farms and photographing all aspects of their operations. These traditional farms are very picturesque and completely authentic creating both a timelessness and a timeliness for our photography.
The VLT also actively saves natural areas from the developer’s hand. To support these efforts we will also be photographing the nature of the Vermont spring- vernal pools, wildflowers, greening hillsides, slithering salamanders and bright rushing rivers and creeks.
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Sitka, Alaska: August 8-13, 2017
Crossroads Photography Workshops
with the Santa Fe Photography Workshops
The far northwest coast of the US is as remote as it is renown. This is where adjectives come to grow and prosper- ancient, luxuriant, primeval, torrential. It is where the scale of everything- everything!- is grand and life still moves to the rhythms of season and tide. This is a place where salmon turn shallow creeks red and squirmy, dark spruce cleave the clouds and forests exhale great banks of fog. This is a place where humans still live by the grace of Mother Nature, holding on to the wave washed edge of a continent a country away.
The workshop will be held in Sitka, Alaska on the northwest edge of the Tongass National Forest, the largest temperate rainforest in the world. The community of Sitka – first established by Tlingit natives 10,000 ago, became a Russian trading outpost 250 years ago and is now a community of 9,000- still counts fishing, logging and hunting as its economic backbone. Sitka is part Alaskan frontier town, part Russian Orthodox fishing village and part thriving arts community.
Most importantly to us, Sitka is home to three busy working harbors, countless salmon streams, singing humpback whales and plodding bear, glacier-carved mountains with tumbling waterfalls, soaring bald eagles and a magical, mist-shrouded forest where ancient totem poles seem to come alive and whisper in the twilight.
This workshop will be working with several local non-profit organizations that are trying to move Sitka and the Tongass toward a more connected and sustainable future. The Sitka Conservation Society has worked since 1967 to protect the old-growth forests and the wild salmon of the Tongass. Our images will support their important educational programs. We will also partner with the renowned Alaska Raptor Center where we will help share the story of rehabilitation, education and hope for many of their magnificent birds of prey.
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October 11 – 15
Fall in Vermont
Manchester Center, Vermont
I call this my backyard workshop because, well, it is done in my (greater) backyard. Taught with my great friends and fellow pros Jeff Wendorff and Lisa Cueman, we take the class to all my favorite locations- tumbling mountain streams, misty ponds, colorful meadows and old barns. We also go to the wonderful old dairy farm that I did an entire book on to photograph the old-time Vermont of generations past. As a special treat we will also photograph two magnificent horses- running against a background of colorful trees and portraits of them with a dramatic black background.
For more information please contact Santa Fe Workshops when their summer/fall schedule comes out in early January.
October 18 – 22
Fall on the Maine Coast
Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park
I have been going to Acadia National Park and the headlands of Down East for more than 20 years and every time I go there I find more things to photograph. Now after doing three books on the coast of Maine I appreciate the area even more. From the beautiful working harbors to the hidden ponds surrounded with color to the birch forests thick with ferns there are endless subjects to photograph. Don’t go with a group to all the standard places that everyone else has images of, come with us and get unique shots of a unique and beautiful part of our country. Taught with my great friend and fellow pro, Brenda Berry.
For more information please contact Santa Fe Workshops when their summer/fall schedule comes out in early January.