How We Choose Our National Parks

“How come you don’t teach in Yosemite, Yellowstone, or the Tetons?”  This is a common question, and there are four principles that determine National Park selection.

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Canyonlands Curriculum Coming Soon

Canyonlands National Park is an adventure park, and our curriculum will include about 50 miles of challenging four-wheel-drive roads that lead to many incredible, not often seen, photographic opportunities.

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Mojave National Preserve Expedition

February is just over the horizon and now is the time to register for the Mojave National Preserve Master Class Workshop. Mojave National Preserve, one of the newest National Parks and the third largest in the lower 48, is a land of desert wilderness, abandoned mines, and ghostly homesteads. Out here, rain is an episodic event, but solitude and peace abound every day.

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2016 Expeditions a Success

2016 was the first year for National Park Photographic Expeditions, and the feedback from our students and National Park Service partners tell us that the Landscape Master Class Workshops were a success. We completed programs in Mojave National Preserve (with California Center for Digital Arts), Capitol Reef National Park, Sequoia National Park, and Lassen Volcanic National Park. From deep canyon heat in Capitol Reef to an early snowfall in Lassen, our photographers experienced numerous,

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Intimate Landscape

Intimacy is a word that describes relationships. Sometimes it implies a sensual component, or a sense of comforting isolation, or perhaps an undertone of tenderness. Intimacy is applicable to landscape photography as well and we sense it when shooting structured scenes. The Sequoia Shadows Expedition Masterclass is ground zero for intimate landscape images.

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Landscape Master Class Series – Part Three

Learn how to clarify landscape photography concepts by using these 3 simple, but disciplined elements: Compose, Expose, and Prose. That’s it; three simple elements, but composition, or seeing creatively, is critical. Fail at this and the other two elements are moot, so allow me to spend a few words on why photographers do fail in this area.

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Landscape Master Class Series – Part Two

It is amazing how many people take landscape pictures, (as opposed to creating them) and when they view them later on their monitor, wonder where the emotional range went that they felt at the time they squeezed the shutter.

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