Fire Goats

Photographs by EF Smith III, selected for publication in LensWork In the quiet hills of Southern California, a herd of goats moves through dry grass and scattered oak trees. To most observers, the scene would pass unnoticed — part of the everyday rhythm of rural life. But in the hands of art photographer Edward F.…

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Capitol Reef Curriculum is Online Now!

Capitol Reef National Park is Utah’s secret gem and one of our favorite National Parks. This is a spring Master Class workshop, and we will be working with great weather, and abundant wildflower blooms will color the landscape in every direction. Thus we have added a special education module for wildflower capture and the integration of wildflowers into landscape narration.

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Olympic Curriculum is Online Now!

Olympic National Park sports an unmatched level of environmental diversity, beauty, and wilderness, which provides an extraordinary range of photographic exploration.

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Canyonlands Curriculum is Online Now!

For colossal photographic drama of Jurassic proportions and ‘Ol West Get There’ adventure, you will want to enroll in the Canyonlands National Park Photography Expedition Landscape Master Class Workshop.

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Mojave National Preserve Expedition

Our Mojave National Preserve Landscape Master Class Workshop allows our students to photograph the desert at a depth rarely experienced by photographers. Climb aboard our 4-wheel drive vehicles, explore 1.6 million acres of desert wilderness, roads less traveled, and take advantage of the soft and slanted light.

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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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