light painting

Take a workshop with a friend and share 40 percent off! This summer, for our two local shooting workshops, Light Painting in Northern Arizona (June 17-19) and Creative Black & White Part I (August 12-14), we’re offering 40% off the fee for the second person.  For example, you and your friend sign up for the black and white workshop and we charge $495 for one of you and $297 for the other.  You split the savings with your buddy and you can each save about 100 dollars!

It’s a great deal so sign up soon!

We leave for Italy in 1 week- we arrive several days early to scout our favorite locations and find some new ones…  as well as get a little extra food and wine before the group arrives!

Ciao!

We spent the past weekend shooting some great images with our Desert Spring in the Canyons of the East Valley workshop.  We light painted, we shot sunrises and sunset, and all of our participants got some amazing images! Although a little tired by the end, I think we all had a lot of fun.

Here are some images from the weekend.  The one at night was at the end of our light painting excursion- I “light painted” our participants over a long exposure.

We have scheduled our summer workshops and they will be a lot of fun!  Some of these workshops were requested by previous attendees, so we hope to hear from you!

Light Painting in Northern Arizona-
based at our Studio in Flagstaff, AZ
June 17-19, 2011
Learn how to paint with light using different subjects and techniques.  $395

Summer at the Grand Canyon- based in Tusayan, AZ
July 29-31, 2011
Join us for a fun 3-day workshop shooting one of the most beautiful national parks in the country!  We have a limited number of hotel rooms reserved so sign up soon!
$495

Creative Black & White, Part I- based at our Studio in Flagstaff, AZ
August 12-14, 2011
Be part of this unique all black & white workshop. Explore the zone system, pre-visualization, and more!  $495
*And stay tuned for Part II coming in September where we’ll learn traditional black & white printing  in conjunction with Hidden Light, LLC.

Ciao!

We spent a few days camping in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix scouting our favorite locations for our upcoming workshop and even found some new ones! The weather was beautiful, around 80 most days and upper 40s at night…  perfect!  After getting up for sunrise several days in a row, it was nice to sleep in today. Though I admit, the sunrise was always beautiful!

Here are a couple desert images, the Superstition Mountains at sunrise and a backlit cholla cactus.  We also visited a small “western-style” ghost town for tourists that had a lot of fun-to-shoot old mining equipment and cars.  This image is part of an old rusted car.

Hope to see you in a workshop in the future!  We also have room in our Digital Photo Basics March 19th!  Contact us with questions…

Ciao…

Ok, so it’s been a while…  but I am committed to keeping up with the blog!

In recent news, we completed a couple more workshops in January, Basics in Scottsdale, and another Adobe Lightroom class in Flagstaff.  Lightroom is a great piece of software…  and I don’t say that very often!

We only have a couple spots left on our Tuscany tour in May and it should be an amazing trip as always (see back posts on the blog if you’re interested in what we’ve done in the past).  We’re working on a fun new location so there is a possibility we may not do it again next year!  We will have more information on this in a few months…  However, if you or someone you know is interested in Tuscany, take advantage of it this year.  We’d love to have you!

This image is from 2010- that’s our village!

We’ve finalized our workshop schedule for Winter and Spring 2011 and we expect to have a lot of fun!

January 22- Digital Photo Basics in Scottsdale

January 28-30- Where are those Photos?  Managing your Digital Life with Lightroom (Flagstaff)

February 12- Digital Photo Basics in Flagstaff

March 19- Digital Photo Basics in Scottsdale

March 25-27- Desert Spring in the Canyons of the East Valley (near Phoenix, AZ)

May 14-21- Villages of Tuscany, Italy

September 17-24- Villages of Provence, France

For more information about any of these workshops, please contact us or click the link above for full descriptions!

Last week, the weather was crazy for us here in Flagstaff!   Several tornadoes hit west and north of Flagstaff.  In the town of Belmont, there was quite a bit of damage, but miraculously, no one was hurt.  Here’s what it looked like at our studio the morning the tornadoes hit…  the rare fog was beautiful, little did we know what was happening elsewhere.

What we call “Monsoon Season” is officially here and the Arizona northland is green and beautiful!  This sunflower next to our back patio is very happy to have some moisture!  The sunflowers in Flagstaff are just starting- soon there will be fields of yellow all around town…  I do love this time of year!

We have a few upcoming workshops-

There’s still room in our August 14-15 workshop, “Where are Those Photos?  Managing your Digital Photo Life with Lightroom.”  If you’d like to learn the best ways to store, find and use your photos, we can help!  See the website for more details…

August Lightroom Workshop

25 September 2010:  Digital Photo Basics, this one is a lot of fun if you’re a beginner or just new to digital!

8-10 October 2010:  Fall Color in Northern Arizona, a lot of field shooting plus critique, review, and classroom.  We always have fun with this one!

As always, please contact us with questions.

Ciao!

Joel’s NEW RELEASE is a shot we did while scouting for our June “Photographing the High Country” workshop…  This is a small chapel near Flagstaff run by a group of volunteers.  A beautiful spot by day or night!

Please visit us in Wheeler Park this weekend for a juried art show where you can see it in person.
July 4th Art in the Park (7/3-5):  Saturday & Sunday 9AM-6PM, Monday 9AM-4PM.

Hope to see you there!

Ciao…