WORKSHOPS 2010

Long exposure experiments, creating with light and special effects. Letting our creativity go full blast, while keeping our heads in place with plenty of technical information that you can use while making the most amazing images. This is a great workshop where we learn something that can be applied anywhere we go! Bombay, San Fran., shooting stars in the desert, Las Vegas.... Portland! . Bring tripods, gloves.... This is for all levels of ability with Film and/or Digital cameras. All our workshops are like this. All info about details, where to meet, etc., will be emailed to you after you have registered by email, and sent your check.
Cost: $55
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Long exposure experiments, creating with light and special effects. Letting our creativity go full blast, while keeping our heads in place with plenty of technical information that you can use while making the most amazing images. This is a great workshop where we learn something that can be applied anywhere we go! Bombay, San Fran., shooting stars in the desert, Las Vegas.... Portland! . Bring tripods, gloves.... This is for all levels of ability with Film and/or Digital cameras. All our workshops are like this. All info about details, where to meet, etc., will be emailed to you after you have registered by email, and sent your check.
Cost: $55
To learn more or to sign up for this workshop, click here

Long exposure experiments, creating with light Adventures with long exposre times and special effects. Letting our creativity go full blast, while keeping our heads in place with plenty of technical information that you can use while making the most amazing images. These is a great workshop where we learn something that can be applied anywhere we go! Bombay, San Fran., shooting stars in the desert, Las Vegas.... Portland! . Bring tripods, gloves.... This is for all levels of ability with Film and/or Digital cameras. All our workshops are like this. All info about details, where to meet, etc., will be emailed to you after you have registered by email, and sent your check.
Cost: $55
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A one day super workshop for people who like bridges, metal, graphic lines and forms. And for those who want to LOOK and SEE and DISCOVER, rather than those random "fun" snapshots!!! Camera techniques for color and black/white images, how to get detailed blacks and whites... and how to really set up the camera to frame and get what you really wanted. You will make photos that count and that you will like to frame and hang in your office and dare to show your friends! You do not need to be an expert at all. As long as you have a good camera, and a deep desire to make fine photos and have some good fun in what you are doing. Some walking involved.
Cost: $85
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New Camera? Or in need of a camera brush up to understand how to use buttons, dials, shutterspeeds, f/numbers, sharpness, histogram (what's That!)...and techniques to make really creative images rather than records and those...snaps !! This most wonderful, fun and understandable class will help and teach you everything. You will walk away being friends with your camera. A must for all with a new camera or for all who just needed a brush up.
Cost: $85
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An Art + Nature photography super workshop. This spectacular and favorite workshop takes place in the most beautiful desert of the U.S.. Sensuous and mighty sanddunes, unbelievable salt formations of overwhelming beauty and silence,.. sunrises and late sunset shoots. A truely great photographic adventure. After 3 days in this voluptuous landscape we travel to 11.000 ft to photograph the most spectacular oldest trees in the world, high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Focus on making powerful images, private instruction, lecture time, discussions, enthusiasm and adventure. A great workshop for all who love nature and photography. And of course for all levels and digital and film cameras. On location imagery discussions, re-shoots, bring laptops...
Cost: $690
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For: Photoshop and Elements - Learn how to bring all your digital photos up to their full potential!! A great and fun course that does not race through this material, but explains, repeats, and practices on pictures that you get on our cd's till everybody masters it. (I'll make sure!). You will be happy how you learn to turn your photos into masterpieces!

We cover all the tools, layers and much more, but also getting you ready to email pix, and web use, as well as printing and framing and sizing your photos!

8 Monday evenings. Max 5 students!

Location: At my house in NE Portland.
Cost: $ 200 for 8 classes
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For: Photoshop and Elements - Learn how to bring all your digital photos up to their full potential!! A great and fun course that does not race through this material, but explains, repeats, and practices on pictures that you get on our cd's till everybody masters it. (I'll make sure!). You will be happy how you learn to turn your photos into masterpieces!

We cover all the tools, layers and much more, but also getting you ready to email pix, and web use, as well as printing and framing and sizing your photos! 8 Wednesday mornings.

Max 5 students! Place: At my house in NE Portland.
Cost: $ 200 for 8 classes
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Along the the hills of the eastern Gorge we will use this day to photograph glorious blooming orchards and fields with wildflowers - learn how to SEE such landscapes, rather than snap them, try out perspectives and lenses on wildflowers and barns - in the beautiful landscape around Hood River. For all levels - digital and film users.
Cost: $85
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A workshop in the tulip gardens where we will create a non straight forward approach to tulips. This workshop will be for both digital and regular film photographers of all skill levels. Special work on the making of creative close up photography techniques.

Many prize winners to the Tulip photo contest have made their photos in this workshop!
Cost: $80
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Along the the hills of the eastern Gorge we will use this day to photograph glorious blooming orchards and fields with wildflowers - learn how to SEE such landscapes, rather than snap them. You will try out perspectives and lenses on wildflowers and barns - in the beautiful landscape around Hood River. For all levels - digital and film users.
Cost: $85
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A workshop in the tulip gardens where we will create a non straight-forward approach to tulips. This workshop will be for both digital and regular film photographers of all skill levels. Close up techniques and many exciting approaches for making really stunning images. Winners of previous Tulip photo contests have made their photos in this workshop!
Cost: $80
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A workshop in the tulip fields where we will create a non-straight forward approach to tulips. This workshop will be for both digital and regular film photographers of all skill levels. Special work on the making of creative close up photography techniques.



I added this session because of the great condition of the flowers.
Cost: $85
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An early morning workshop so the roses are still fresh for the day. Location: Portland Rose gardens. Come and do away with the snapshooting fad! Click, click, click, over exposed images...you have seen it all? This great and fun Rose session will show you all the ins and outs of working with the digital controls we absolutely need to learn to make fine photos and close ups that come out the way we want it. Composition, lighting, controlling light and contrast, determining precise exposure, digital and film CLOSE UP/MACRO techniques. These workshops welcome everybody, and each person receives a great deal if individual assistance and encouragement. You can be better than a pro!! But it IS a pro who will show you how to do it!



Time or workshop: Sunday morning 7 till 11 AM
Cost: $60
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At a setting along the not too well known North coast we will have our workshop among beautiful driftwood and capes, a session with photos more in the style of Weston masterworks. Very focussed selecting of our scenes, exposure and composition challenges is the stuff we will work with. We then go to a fine and rustic harbor for another session and... hopefully a great sunset (see picture) - of fine photomaking. A student commented one year later: this workshop taught me how I look at things and what to do with all the settings on my cameras, than any other workshop I ever attended!
Cost: $85
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What to do when we come to a new city? New Delhi....Vienna, Salzburg, New York..? Just point a camera at some prominent buildings and shoot it..? This is usually how it goes, right? But in this workshop you will learn how to look for catchy nice angles and perspectives and how to put a theme to your photo series to capture a real live image of any city you will visit. We will do just that in this workshop. Walking, discovering and seeing how to make a series of beautiful and describing images, in this case, of Portland!
Cost: $85
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All about Macro - and the Fine Arts Close Ups. The IRIS is a most mysterious flower of great and intense beauty. In this workshop we will look at the technical and artistic approaches to making a really sublime image of this flower. In the same location are many other beautiful flowers as well which we will work with. This session is a perfect blend of close up and Macro photography techniques, and artistic insight - . Lots of great photos are waiting for you. All levels welcome, Film + Digital. Contact us about what lenses, close up lenses to bring.
Cost: $85
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Location: Portland Rose gardens. Come and do away with the snapshooting fad! Click, click, click, over exposed images...you have seen it all? This great and fun Rose session will show you all the ins and outs of working with the digital controls we absolutely need to learn to make fine photos and close ups that come out the way we want it. Composition, lighting, controlling light and contrast, determining precise exposure, digital and film CLOSE UP/MACRO techniques. These workshops welcome everybody, and each person receives a great deal if individual assistance and encouragement. You can be better than a pro!! But it IS a pro who will show you how to do it!



Time or workshop: Sunday morning 7 till 11 AM
Cost: $60
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The IRIS is a most mysterious flower of great and intense beauty. In this workshop we will look at artistic satisfaction. Lots of great photos are waiting for you. All levels welcome, Film + Digital. Special focus on technical and artistic approaches to making a really sublime image of this flower. In the same location are many other beautiful flowers as well which we will work with. This session is a perfect blend of close up techniques with composition. Please contact us about what lenses to bring. All info will be sent to you after your registration is complete.
Cost: $80
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The IRIS is a most mysterious flower of great and intense beauty. In this workshop we will look at artistic satisfaction. Lots of great photos are waiting for you. All levels welcome, Film + Digital. Special focus on technical and artistic approaches to making a really sublime image of this flower. In the same location are many other beautiful flowers as well which we will work with. This session is a perfect blend of close up techniques with composition. Please contact us about what lenses to bring. All info will be sent to you after your registration is complete.
Cost: $85
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Those digital cameras with all these buttons...., programs, choices without end.... What to do with all of them!!! I hate this thing! I hate that stupid Instruction book too!!! Ouch.


I need a patient and very good live instructor who will guide me through this mess and tell me what I need to do to maket GOOD PICTURES. Amen!


This is your chance, invite your family and friends to take this too. You owe it to your expensive camera with which you want to photograph the world....


You will go into the world happier than you were.
Cost: $85
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Moving water in nature can be very illusive. Sometimes frozen like ice or glass, other times choppy, whirling or amost invisible with light on it... This workshop will combine techniques, artful seeing and observing, and trying out and establishing exposure techniques to get just that kind of magic that beautiful moving waters have for us. A wonderful way to combine your love of photography and nature and to come home with gorgeous photos, rather than some snapshots. Digital and Analogue
Cost: $85
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Photographing Roses early on a Sunday morning is what we are working on. Creative Close-up and Macro (very close), to make the kind of photos one usually only sees as paintings. (Georgia O'Keefe). The use of your lenses, macro lenses, and/or add-on close up lenses will be totally explained and you will bring home the most beautiful creations to decorate your home or office! Many before you have taken this workshop with great smiles.
Cost: $60
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After the success of the first High Desert workshop in May, a repeat for all those who could not make it to that one. Your last chance to participate in this exciting and wonderful scenes workshop and to learn more about real photography with your camera and its controls. All levels are equally welcomed. Photographing a sunrise in the Smith Rocks is like roaming in the Negheb desert, then the eerie beauty of windmills and deserted bleached huts, faces of ranchers, twisted juniper limbs and then a sunset in the Painted Hills... and whatever surprises that will announce themselves to be seen, evaluated quickly and then shot carefully. Say goodbye to the never satisfied snapshooter to enter a land of honest and great photography. Digital and Film, newcomer or more advanced... All welcome as long as you love what you do! Two wonderful, long days full of new things, photographic challenges, discussions, and fun.... One overnight in a great motel in a rustic desert town.
Cost: $180. ex motel, food, gas
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This session will travel into the Southern Cascades to find this stunning waterfall. Rainbows, contrasts, silvery light against dark shadows. A splended scene that lends itself to many different and wonderful shots. This is a workshop that any person could do. It is a grand practice in seeing and applying what you know and find out during this workshop. You will find yourself in a cathedral of light: nature at it's best. Register by email.
Cost: $85
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GLOWING SLOT CANYONS. Photo workshop amidst the most beautiful nature in the South West. Among the pink and red rock country in and around magic Zion NP we will set up our cameras and work on translating the natural beauty of this very beautiful scenery. Special seminars on light measurement, digital and film exposure and digital image management, double exposures, great (short) hikes and photo sessions, and the surprises of new and terrific scenes each day. During the Zion session we travel to the Page, AZ. area for a full day inside the deep slot canyons, a place of unimaginable beauty and forms. I will guide you to my most favorite places and work with each participant on capturing the finest images. Both camping and motelling nearby our base is possible. You will come back with the most beautiful photographs. For all levels and those who love nature and want to improve their photographic vision and skills. Special focus on digital imaging technique.
Cost: $690
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You will love this photographic trip through the High Desert of Oregon. We stop at all sorts of places that one usually passes by (depending on who usually travels with you!..) Barns, skies, windmill forests....cowboys and grand landscapes! We are afraid of nothing.
Sunset and sunrises in beautiful places that you will never forget... Working on effective compositions, technical problem solving, new things...! We sleep in a great western tiny town, 30 or so inhabitants, with the most wonderful photo opportunities waiting for us....You will love our hotel and the trees and the silence of the desert....Register soon! We book the hotel (that you pay for upon arrival). Workshop cost: $190, ex food, travel, lodging (bunkbeds are $15, rooms are about $50). We usually carpool but is not required.
Cost: $190. ex lodging, travel, food.
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This Fall photo workshop takes place in three beautiful locations, each with old growth forest and superb waterfalls, cascadesand Light... Dream places for photographers! We will deal with How to Tame our Excitement (!) and instead of 'shooting' we carefully work on making the most gorgeous photos. But you will need to deal with the technical tools of your camera to make it all happen - and this is what you will get in this workshop as well. Plus a group of great people, enthusiasm, love for what we accomplish. And an excellent teacher-photographer. An all day workshop to places in the southern - Cascades. A great workshop to end the season before the rains come.
Cost: $85
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An Art + Nature photography super workshop. This spectacular and favorite workshop takes place in the most beautiful desert of the U.S.. Sensuous and mighty sanddunes, unbelievable salt formations of overwhelming beauty and silence,.. sunrises and late sunset shoots. A truely great photographic adventure. After 3 days in this voluptuous landscape we travel to 11.000 ft to photograph the most spectacular oldest trees in the world, high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Focus on making powerful images, private instruction, lecture time, discussions, enthusiasm and adventure. A great workshop for all who love nature and photography. And of course for all levels and digital and film cameras. On location imagery discussions, re-shoots, bring laptops...
Cost: $690
To learn more or to sign up for this workshop, click here