My latest New Zealand based photography workshop is underway! It’s great to get back to it after a bunch of delays/postponements due to covid and lockdowns. Today (amongst other things) we’ll have a post-processing session from yesterday’s sunset shoot. For now, here’s one from a previous workshop
Next week is my next NZ photography workshop. Can’t wait to head out with a bunch of other photographers and take in the New Zealand autumn colours!
Working on the final plans for the upcoming workshop in April. We’ve a place left if you want to grab a last-minute slot with discount. I guarantee an epic experience. ;D
We’ve got space for one more booking on the upcoming April workshop here in Queenstown (where it’s turning from summer to awesome Autumn)… it’ll likely be my last NZ workshop for some time (years) so now’s the time if you’ve been thinking about it over my time here. You can see more about the event and grab that slot via the store. (If you want to bring a partner, etc, no probs. We can sort that out after you book.)
I’m having my first New Zealand workshop since Covid! Hard to believe some people have been booked in since 2019 waiting for all the pandemic craziness to pass. We’re pretty much sold out, maybe a couple of spaces left, so if you’ve always wanted to come to NZ, this is a fun way to do it! This is a new photo I just processed from near my home where we took a workshop a few years ago. This is Aro-Ha. I had an idea to combine my love of yoga and hiking with photography… I thought, hell no one is gonna sign up for this thing. That’s a weird Venn Diagram overlap. But I was wrong. It totally sold out and we had a great time. This one that we’re having April of 2024 is not like that one… it’s all photography, all the time and I’m planning some cool trips that we’ve never done before with other NZ workshop participants. Grab one of the last few spots here!
When we do my photo workshops in Queenstown, this is an area where we usually begin. We start along the lake and walk for about a mile down to Queenstown Gardens. We always time it to arrive just before sunrise. It’s usually pretty cold, but when the sun pops out, everything is great again!
If you end up coming to my Queenstown Photo Workshop then you’re really gonna love this spot. It’s one of my absolute favorites, and, honestly having a workshop is a pretty good excuse for me to get out here and shoot! The colors are out of this world, and simply walking around the gardens is quite relaxing!
Here’s a pretty view from when I took a workshop group up here one morning. The lake was like a huge mirror and perfectly still. I think we all walked around it a few times to get every possible angle. If you look over to the left, you can see, of all things, a North Korean prison. It was used for some terrible Disney movie decades ago. It’s since been demolished because people thought it was an eyesore, but I thought it was kinda cool!
Photo Workshop party in New Zealand! We do have a formal photo workshop coming up in April, but yesterday I did a personal one with this gentleman, Brandin Cooks. He first visited me a few years ago at my studio here, then became an art collector, and then we started going on photo adventures together! He’s a really good photographer and a hungry student that asks lots of good questions. Brandin is one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met too… if any of you follow the NFL, then you probably know who he is. I think he’s actually carving out a very interesting niche by being the only pro photographer who is also becoming a pro photographer. Anyway, we had a fun little one-on-one day here in Skipper’s Canyon, then met his wife at Ferg before heading out to take sunset photos in Glenorchy.
The water was like this each and every day. Not only was it this unusual color, but it was super warm and perfect. On our first day there, we went out paddleboarding, which was perfect for beginners because the water was so smooth. There was a lot of falling off anyway, mostly because Ethan was going around like a battleship trying to sink everyone else.
The image from today’s video was taken during our Queenstown, New Zealand Photo Workshop which is coming in soon in just a few weeks! It’s going to be a great time and this is one of the many locations we visit together. If you’re a Passport Member then you get to see the edit of this video… If you were there at the workshop, you got to see it live!
This was a fun edit. I really enjoy these situations where you get to mix together soft areas with defined areas all in the middle of a soup of pretty colors. Enjoy! 🙂
