About BPS
Welcome! Baltimore Photo Safari began 5 years ago with a simple concept - show folks where to find great photo opportunities and how to create perfect images. I combine how-to instruction, hands-on assistance, and professional critiques to enhance your photographic skills and enrich your enjoyment of photography. I choose locations that exhilarate your spirit, spark your photography, and wow your viewer with electrifying images.My 2012 schedule includes the Inner Harbor photo safaris featured last year in the Washington Post; new photo weekends at destinations I describe in my book Photographing Baltimore, Annapolis, and MD’s Eastern Shore (Countryman Press © 2012); perennial favorites such as Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge; and, several full-length photography workshops in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Grab your camera and come join the fun and excitement!
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
December 7-9, 2012 $295 per person
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge serves as a critical stopover by providing essential habitat for birds migrating along the Atlantic Coast Flyway. With habitat vanishing elsewhere along the Flyway, thousands of Canada geese, snow geese and wintering ducks find sanctuary at Bombay Hook.
According to their website, Bombay Hook has roughly 16,000 acres of freshwater impoundments, swamps, upland forests, agricultural fields, and one of the largest unaltered tidal salt marshes in the Mid-Atlantic region. Their 12-mile loop auto tour road and nature trails provide innumerable opportunities for bird, landscape, nature, and wildlife photography. When thousands of snow geese suddenly take flight, you experience a spectacular sight and sound show.
You will find full information about Bombay Hook NWR at www.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/index.html.
Schedule
On Friday evening at 7pm there is an orientation, instructional presentation, and a Q&A session. We spend the majority of Saturday out and about in the Refuge. During Saturday’s first light, early morning, late afternoon and evening twilight photo sessions I provide individualized instruction appropriate to the subject at hand. In the early afternoon on Saturday, I conduct a critique session where we review some of the images we capture. Early Sunday morning we are again out in the field at other sites Bombay Hook has to offer. Our photo safari weekend concludes late Sunday morning in time to check out of our hotel rooms.
Included in the photo safari
The photo weekend fee covers workshop instruction and outstanding photo opportunities. My role as lead instructor is to help you create better images and fill your portfolio, not mine. I do not photograph on photo weekends; I teach.
My goal is to help you develop a set of skills and techniques you can use over your lifetime to create images of which you will be proud. To help reinforce the techniques we cover, I provide participants via email a follow-up professional critique of any 3 images shot at this site.
The fee does not include lodging, meals, or transportation.
I designed this landscape/nature photo weekend to accommodate a maximum of 8 participants. A minimum of 3 participants is required.
Equipment and gear
Always a perennial favorite, photographers flock to this photo weekend. Sign up early so you can catch all the action.