Workshops and Tours

Workshops

I do no registrations for any of these; I just teach. Register for them at the links to the individual workshops. Thanks!

October 2009

Yosemite National Park with The Yosemite Association. Details as they arrive.

Previous workshops:

January 2008

The Route 66 Workshop is on again for January 25-27 2008.

The 2007 Route 66 Workshop was written up in The New York Times's Travel Section, June 10th, 2007. The same great guy, Dave Wyman, is behind all of these.

October 2008

Yosemite National Park with The Yosemite Association. Details as they arrive.

Eastern Sierra, October.

Thursday through Sunday, October 18-21, 2007: Bodie and the Eastern Sierra. I'll be there teaching.

Stoneman Meadow, Yosemite National Park, October.

Monday through Wednesday, October 22-24, 2007: Autumn Light Photography in Yosemite National Park, California. I'll be helping teach this workshop sponsored by The Yosemite Association. Also see more about it here.

Group Instruction    back to top

I teach when others invite me to events they have planned. For instance, I taught for a week in Italy in October 2003 and it was the most fun I've ever had. A university in Torino invited me to teach at their summer program.

I don't have any of my own scheduled workshops. I'm too busy photographing to spend the time it takes to manage and organize these. The photographers you see offering workshops usually spend more time doing workshops than photographing.

Please ask if you'd like me to address your group, whether it's graduate students at Oxford, a class of excitable first graders or your local photo club or charitable organization. For most groups just cover my expenses and I'm probably yours. I love to teach! Why else would I put so much effort into this website?

I give presentations a couple of times a year through volunteer organizations like the Sierra Club. Ask and I'll address your group, too.

Also take the photo tours my friends offer below. They'll also give you all the hands-on help you want. We all love this stuff!

Private Instruction    back to top

I already post all the general information you get in group instruction on my how-to pages and the rest you can get by reading.

I'd love to help you. The only problem is I'm very limited on time. You'll really have to pester me to get me. Rates are $297.00 per hour and of course I have to bill for any travel time. I'm not really looking to teach privately, but if you can catch me and really need specific help by all means please try. I would hope that everything anyone might need is here on this website to read for free.

Day rates start at $1,000/day.

Tours    back to top

As I've said, I'm not an outing organizer. These are personal friends of mine who take the time to organize these trips as well as do great photography.

AFRICA

My photographer friend Paul Renner is always going to Africa. He was born and raised there and spent most of his childhood chasing or running away from wild animals. Paul's website is RennerImages.com.

LATIN AMERICA

I suggest my friend Jim Cline's tours of Latin America. I've known Jim for years and he really takes the time to do the forward research for his trips. Every time we get together it seems he's just gotten back from a scouting expedition in advance for his next trip, in other words, Jim has probably been down there the month before the formal trip to check everything out before you go. Jim has been all over Latin America for a long time. He's not one of the usual guys who just lets you pay for his vacations; Jim puts a lot of work into these tours!

REST OF WORLD

Another friend I've know for decades is Karl Grobl. Today Karl spends most of his time today documenting the efforts of humanitarian organizations throughout Asia, Oceania and Latin America. He's usually away on assignment for weeks at a time, but keep checking to see if he has anything recreational planned. He'll get you places for which you'll need to consult an atlas. If you want to get places no one has been before he's your guy. See what he has planned here.

Paul, Jim and Karl are accomplished, published, multiple award-winning photographers skilled at getting in and out of the right locations at the right time, are articulate and a lot of fun with whom to travel. I've been all over with all of them and wish I had the time to do more!