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!
Springtime in West Virginia
May 2-6, 2012 $695 per person
Wild and Wonderful is the state slogan for West Virginia. Once you visit this state, you will discover their slogan could easily be majestic and magnificent.
Our workshop takes place near Davis, West Virginia at the Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center. From Canaan Valley we are within an hour’s drive of the wide vistas of the high, wind-swept plateau of the Dolly Sods Wilderness; stunning views of the breathtaking Allegheny Mountains from atop Spruce Knob, WV’s highest elevation; rocky outcroppings above and along the Blackwater River gorge; several waterfalls and stony cascades; rural landscapes; spring wildflowers; the Monongahela National Forest; fog and wetlands; insects and other critters; sunrises; and so much more. You will discover that West Virginia’s Grant, Pendleton and Tucker Counties are a dream come true for landscape and nature photographers.
I find spring is a wonderful time to photograph West Virginia’s Panhandle area. The temperatures are mild, wildflowers are in blossom, waterfalls plunge and tumble at full volume, birds and insects are plentiful, and fog often lends an ethereal element to farm scenes and wetland areas. Over the past several years, I have explored and photographed the WV Panhandle and Western Maryland each spring and fall, guided groups and individuals through the area, and written about photographing there. Past participants have kindly said that I am “an informed and patient teacher whose enthusiasm for photography is contagious.”
Schedule
On Wednesday evening at 7pm there is an orientation, instructional presentation, and a Q&A session. We spend the majority of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday out and about in the field. During these 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 each day, I conduct a critique session where we review some of the images you capture. Early Sunday morning we are again out in the field. Our photography workshop concludes late Sunday morning in time to check out of our hotel rooms.
Included in the workshop
The fee covers workshop instruction and spectacular photo opportunities. My role as lead instructor is to help you create better images and fill your portfolio. I do not photograph during this photo workshop; 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 5 images shot during this photo workshop.
The fee does not include lodging, meals, or transportation.
I designed this landscape/nature photo workshop to accommodate a maximum of 8 participants. A minimum of 3 participants is required.
Equipment and gear
Join me on this workshop, and you will photograph the incredible countryside that legendary musician John Denver sang about in his hit song Almost Heaven, West Virginia