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Fall – Winter California Photography Workshops 2018

Photography workshop at The Racetrack, Death Valley
Landscape and night photography workshops

Our October 4-6 workshop that ends in Bodie night access can go here as well (photo Oct 7, 2010).

Bodie: I received late confirmation for October 6, so I’ve opened up enrollment for October 4 – 6 – Eastern Sierra & Bodie Milky Way Night Photography         $895
We’ll start with fall colors in the Bishop area, then move to Mono Lake and the high sierra around Tioga Pass, then end with a night in Bodie.  It can get chilly in October, but it’s fully dark by 8pm, so bundle up to enjoy our night session with the most dark hours of our season in Bodie. I’ve collected albums of sample photos of relevant Bodie night shots in an album on Facebook.

Bodie's Lottie Johl House 2013

Death Valley – Milky Way: Last year I had customers ask for a couple of nights in Death Valley in October, and full darkness by 8 pm creates early evening Milky Way opportunities that few photographers are taking advantage of. I’m adding a new workshop for the nights of September 30 – October 2 to pursue as many compositions as we can get, then I’d like offer a longer workshop next year. I’ve shot Death Valley dozens of times over the past dozen years and my normal rate for 3 days/nights is $795, but I’ll discount this one to $495 as I fine tune locations, compositions and itinerary specifically for October Milky Way.  I have nice some compositions in mind, and the first photographer or two to enroll gets to provide input on the order we pursue them in the itinerary. Death Valley often involves a fair amount of driving, and this more adventurous visit may include some remote locations, could involve flat tires, and is likely to involve some moderately strenuous walking in sand, and perhaps some camping under the stars.                            3 days/nights $795 $495

Photography workshop at The Racetrack, Death Valley

In October we can shoot the Milky Way at 8 pm instead of 3 am in March!

Eastern Sierra & Bodie: I’m also adding a new 3-day Bodie and Eastern Sierra workshop the nights of October 4 – 6. This will be similar to the ones in June and July with two practice nights before our Bodie night access, but we’ll start with fall colors in the Bishop area, then move to Mono Lake and the high sierra around Tioga Pass, then end with a night in Bodie.  It can get chilly in October, but it’s fully dark by 8pm, so bundle up to enjoy our night session with the most dark hours of our season in Bodie. We were originally told in February that Bodie workshops would not happen this year. While that decision was eventually reversed, I want to get in as many Bodie dates as possible this season, while we still can!                                        3 days/nights $895

Why Did the Milky Way Cross the Road?

Eastern Sierra Fall Colors: We’ll meet in Big Pine for an evening and night shoot in the bristlecone pines, then move to the Lee Vining area for three days of fall colors and night photography. October 10 – 14,                                                   4 days/nights $995
fall colors workshops with Jeff Sullivan

Eastern Sierra fall colors October 12, 2017.

Yosemite – moon – night: Yosemite fall colors are particularly good to pursue at night, and shooting around the full moon date makes night photography well lit for low noise and saturated colors. Although the timing for this can conceivably work any time in late October through November (my best shots in 2012 were November 25-26), for the last two years fall colors were particularly early in Yosemite Valley, so this year I’ve selected October 22 – 26 as the main fall Yosemite workshop.          4 days/nights $995
Yosemite night photography workshop. with Jeff Sullivan

Yosemite fall colors night photography.

Death Valley – meteor shower: Given that this is the last major meteor shower until 2021 without moon interference, the Geminid meteor shower I’ll be pursuing December 10-14 is even more of a priority than I had anticipated! I’ve been chasing just about every available meteor shower since 2009 (without clouds or moon). If you’re interested in learning or practicing meteor shower photography before 2021, this is your chance to practice it. We’ll have three nights to practice before the peak night of the shower.
4 days/nights:  $995

Astrphotography in Death Valley, California

Catch Geminid meteors in Death Valley National Park.

 Mono Lake Moon Rise: Winter is the season for sunset reflections on Mono Lake, and why not add a sunset moon rise and possibly snow to the mix?  New release: December 21 – 23.                                                          (Details coming soon.)
Belt of Venus, Eastern Sierra

Lunar astrophotography meets landscape photography at Mono Lake, California

Bodie photography workshops with Jeff Sullivan

Sunrise during one of our Bodie morning interior access sessions in 2014, like the one we’ll have on the morning of October 8, 2018.

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