2013 Workshops

Spirit of Structure: Alabama Revisited

January 20 – 25, 2013 Alabama Class Size: 10 Tuition: $1500 Register by downloading our Workshop Application (PDF).

The purpose of photographically exploring this area of Alabama is threefold: to explore Alabama’s industrial and agricultural past, to look at the spirit of the structures (i.e. the stories behind the buildings) and to examine closely the resurrection of yet another Main Street.

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Portfolio Weekend, Camden, ME

March 8 – 10, 2013 Camden, Maine Class Size: 8 Tuition: $500 Register by downloading our Workshop Application (PDF).

Join me for a weekend of portfolio reviews with a dynamic and dedicated small group of serious photographers. Use this opportunity to refine your portfolio, (whether for exhibition, publication or website) and to chart the direction of a project or your continuing growth as a photographer.

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Fourth Annual Photographers’ Retreat

April 12 (Friday) – 14 (Sunday), 2013 Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, New Jersey All Photographers Welcome! Cost: Room including Continental breakfast (Friday & Saturday night) $150.00

What is a Photographers’ Retreat? This one is an opportunity for photographers to meet together over an unstructured weekend to talk, share work, see what others are doing, make new photographs, and in general, “hang out” with people who speak the same language as you. How does it differ from a workshop or conference? There is no agenda, lectures or classroom teachers. At this retreat we all get to be students and we can all be teachers. This is an informal gathering and you may attend all or part of the weekend. There is no registration charge.

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Spirit of Structure: Eastern Remnants of the Erie Canal

April 14 – 19, 2013 New York Tuition: $1500 Register by downloading our Workshop Application (PDF) or visit Maine Media Workshops..

Come explore three different renditions of the original Erie Canal in the Albany area - the original, the 1840’s canal and the currently used canal in early spring. The barebones landscape will allow us access into remnants of the original canal as well as provide for photographing in places we couldn’t access during the summer season. We will be working along the Erie Canalway National Historic Corridor from Utica to Troy (NY). Some of the possible locations include: Vischer Ferry nature and Historic Preserve, the Schoharie Crossing (including towpath remains, enlarged Erie Canal aqueduct and locks), Putman’s Lock and Stand store, parts of Clinton’s Ditch (original 1820’s canal) and the old Champlain Canal and towpath near Waterford.

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Spirit of Structure: Abandoned Farms of North Dakota

May 12 – 17, 2013 Rugby, North Dakota Tuition: $1500 Register by downloading our Workshop Application (PDF)or visit Maine Media Workshops.

Imagine the unique opportunity to photograph in isolated abandoned farmhouses and nearly deserted towns in north central North Dakota. Conditions of the structures range from mere windowless shells to intact buildings containing personal belongings of the long gone occupants. Despite the perception that photographing buildings falls under the genre of “architectural” photography these structures also provide the photographer with rich possibilities for still life, portrait and abstract, as well as landscape interests.

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Platinum Printing in the 21st Century, Peters Valley Craft Center, NJ

June 27 – July 2, 2013 Peters Valley Craft Center, New Jersey Register at www.petersvalley.org

Any photographer, working in any format, film-based or digital, can make platinum prints today. This workshop will provide the beginner platinum printer the information and knowledge to make platinum prints in your own home. The more experienced platinum printer can use this workshop to build their skill set and problem-solve printing issues. We will work with both the traditional and the NA2 platinum/palladium printing processes. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, paper choices, image color, contrast controls, basic hand coating methods, use of step wedges and masking techniques.

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Extraordinary Images in Ordinary Places

July 7 – 12, 2013 Maine Media Workshops, Rockport Maine Register at Maine Media Workshops.

Remember the excitement you felt on making your first photograph? Has some of that enthusiasm been lost as life’s demands cut into time for your passion? Are you ready to revitalize and bring fresh ideas into your images? This workshop, open to all levels of photographic experience, is a great place to begin – whether you are looking to shake old habits, reacquaint yourself with good ones or enjoy the surprise of discovering a new point of view.

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Platinum Printing in the 21st Century, Photographers’ Formulary

July 21 – 26, 2013 Photographers’ Formulary Register at www.photoformulary.com

Any photographer, working in any format, film-based or digital, can make platinum prints today. This workshop will provide the beginner platinum printer the information and knowledge to make platinum prints in your own home. The more experienced platinum printer can use this workshop to build their skill set and problem-solve printing issues. We will work with both the traditional and the NA2 platinum/palladium printing processes. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, paper choices, image color, contrast controls, basic hand coating methods, use of step wedges and masking techniques.

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The New Pictorialist: Working with Soft Focus Lenses

August 4 – 10, 2013 Rockport, Maine Tuition: $1500 Instructors: Tillman Crane, Dr. Russ Young PhD, FRPS Register at Maine Media Workshops.

This workshop will cover the history, technical design, use of and aesthetics of working with soft focus lenses, from the earliest view camera lenses to the modern digital soft focus lenses. The workshop is open to all photographers, whether using digital, roll film or sheet film. This is an intermediate level class and familiarity with manual operation of your camera and a basic knowledge of composition and design encouraged to get the most from the workshop.

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Spirit of Structure: Ghost Towns of Western Montana

September 8 – 13, 2013 Montana Tuition: $1500 Register by downloading our Workshop Application (PDF) or visit Maine Media Workshops.

Imagine photographing the streets of a classic western ghost town as well as an old mining community – both in the same week! Gold was discovered in 1862 in Bannack, Montana’s first territorial capital, and approximately 3000 people called it home by 1863. It is an intact, high plains western town containing nineteen buildings, including a saloon, school, Masonic Hall, two hotels, jail and variety of other businesses and houses. Garnet was settled three decades later by miners and their families who worked for the mining companies using industrial equipment to dig out the hard-rock mines. In its heyday over 1000 people lived in this high mountain area in the Garnet Mountain range. Many of the original buildings are still intact, although to a lesser degree than the ghost town of Bannack.

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For further information email us or call (207) 230-0199.

If you do not see the perfect workshop for you listed above, please contact me for information on individual or group tutorials. I can work with you here in Maine, in your own home darkroom/studio or at a location of your choice. Private tutorials can be set up by day, weekend or week. Email us for further details.