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Greetings,
Happy autumn! This one is special because it's our first wood stove season!
And so far, so warm. We've yet to get into the meat of the season where we have days and days of sub-freezing weather, but I'm looking forward to it.
I now look back, with a wistful groan, at all that back breaking work of splitting and stacking wood from the trees we had taken down. Ahh...the memory of sore muscles and lots of sweat. Was it worth it? Well, it helped me to lose some weight and it's warming up our house. So definitely yes.
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2025 Lofoten Islands Photo Tour
Last month I mentioned that I’d sent out emails to those who showed interest in a Lofoten photo tour. As of this writing, all six spaces for the first tour (Jan. 31-Feb. 6, 2025) have been spoken for and there are only three spaces remaining on the Feb. 6-12, 2025 tour.
I’ve now posted this tour to my workshops website, and it is available for registration.
Click here for more information.
Photo courtesy of Iceland Photo Tours
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Olympic National Park
I still have two openings in my Olympic National Park workshop. Based out of Forks, WA, this workshop is 6 days/5 nights, is limited to seven, and includes classroom critique/processing sessions along with the opportunity of repeating favorite locations. The length of this workshop will also give us the chance to visit at least four beaches for sunsets!
This workshop will give you ample opportunity to work on forest photography as well as to try your hand at long exposure coastal photography. We'll also photograph waterfalls, sea stacks, Lake Crescent and more.
This workshop is May 12-17, 2024 (Sunday-Friday)
Click here for more.
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NANPA Regional Field Event
If you can’t make my Olympic workshop, or you want a shorter trip, you could opt for the NANPA (North American Nature Photography Association) Regional Field Event that I’m leading to Olympic. It is also based out of Forks, but is only 4 days/3 nights, and limited to 10. This will be more of a photo tour, so there will be no classroom time. But, as always, I’ll be there for help and instruction in the field.
This tour is May 30 – June 2 (Thursday-Sunday)
Because this tour is shorter than my regular workshop, we won’t be getting to all the locations I’d usually be able to take you. And we likely won’t be able to repeat locations.
But if you’re up for a quick photo tour of Olympic National Park, check it out. You don't need to be a NANPA member, but the event is less expensive if you are.
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The Palouse
The Palouse has been magnificent these last few years.
Farmers are planting more canola because of market demand, and I hope that remains the case since the color contrast that the bright yellow canola flowers provide is pretty exciting to photograph. And it makes for great prints too!
Next year’s workshop is June 17-22. It’s limited to only 7 participants and includes classroom time for image review and post processing tips.
And I’ll even extend the early-bird sign up discount of $100 to the end of December. If you want to take advantage, just reply to this email and let me know. I’ll send you a link to the early bird discount page.
Click here for more information on the workshop.
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Z8
I can’t believe it’s been almost ten years since I bought a brand-new camera. Back then, Nikon’s newest pro-level camera was the D810, which had just been released. And seeing as how I was heading to the northern reaches of the magical land of Canada to photograph auroras for the first time, I wanted a full-frame, low-noise camera. And the D810 was it. And it’s been a great camera.
Since then, I have acquired a used Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera (technically not a brand-new camera to me) and I’ve enjoyed it for the most part. But it’s too small for my hands and my fingers often end up pushing buttons I’d rather they didn’t push. And though it takes great night shots, it’s nearly impossible to see what I’m trying to photograph in the viewfinder or the rear LCD. Plus, its layout is a lot different than my D810. But I do like a lot of its features: better autofocus, focus blending, etc.
All that to say that I’m feeling a Nikon Z8 on the horizon. I might have gotten it already but for a few recent setbacks, like needing to cancel a tour because of wildfires and having to get that pesky hernia fixed.
 So I’m now in the process of going through my remaining slides to scan those that I think are worthy and haven’t been scanned before.
It's going to take some time, but I am getting to relive some nice memories, like the ones attached to this image of McDonald Creek in Glacier National Park from August of 1999!
Then I’ll sell my Nikon LS-5000 Super Coolscan slide/film scanner. That will get me part-way to that Z8. Part way....
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