Overview

The Olympic Peninsula offers an astonishing array of landscapes and micro-climates in a relatively compact area. From its dramatic rocky coast and tidal pools, to old-growth temperate rainforest, to alpine meadows, glaciated peaks, and vast wilderness, it seems to have it all. Marine fog pours through mountain passes, filling inland valleys while ridge-top meadows in full bloom bask in the sun. Roosevelt elk bugle in the lush forest, home to some of the world’s largest trees. The snowcapped splendor of the Olympic Mountains provides a constant backdrop. No one knows this majestic place better than the award-winning photographic team of Terry Donnelly and Mary Liz Austin.

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Scheduled during the summer wildflower season, our morning and evening field time will be used well at locations within comfortable range of our basecamp, the waterfront Red Lion Hotel in Port Angeles.

This Advanced workshop deals heavily with advanced composition, previsualization, anticipation, planning for changing light and weather, and shooting with post-processing tools in mind. During excursions led by Terry, Mary, and Visionary Wild founder Justin Black (all three instructors are with the group throughout), ample time will be dedicated to photography in the field. This is a generalist outdoor photography workshop and the emphasis of any individual participant’s work is up to them, whether they wish to focus on landscape, macro, wildlife (as the opportunity presents itself), abstraction, color, black and white, HDR, panoramics, multiple exposures, or all of the above. Photographers who are comfortable with technical fundamentals, understand basic digital workflow, and are generally competent image makers but who are looking to improve their seeing, composition, conceptual development, and preparedness for fast-changing conditions will feel right at home in this workshop. We supply materials in advance of the session to get everyone up to speed on the area we’ll be working in, essential technical information, and other guidelines to ensure that everyone is ready to make the most of the experience.

The workshop includes field sessions, classroom lectures and ample hands-on instruction, honest and constructive critiques, single-occupancy lodging (prorated fee available for double-occupancy or for those who do not require lodging), all meals and drinks, and transportation to field sessions via two group vans. Justin Black of Visionary Wild will be present to serve as assistant instructor and to ensure everything runs smoothly. All three instructors will be present to teach and mentor students throughout the workshop.

We will meet on the afternoon of July 8th and field sessions begin that evening. We will photograph during magic-hour light morning and evening, and in the rainforest in overcast conditions. Between field sessions, we will reconvene at basecamp for projected lectures and critique. Thursday morning will be the final field session, followed by critique until we adjourn at 2:00 pm.