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Domestic Photo Tours and Workshops

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In America's national parks, in various state parks, and at one of our favorite locales, our Hoot Hollow Institute of Nature Photography, Mary and I conduct several photo tours and photo shoots each year.

For almost all of these, lodging, transportation, and most meals are included. In all cases we deal with small groups of twelve photographers or less.

For the complete brochure for our photo tours, please choose:

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Arizona Hummingbirds Photo Shoot and Workshop
We were the first to offer high-speed flash hummingbird photo tours and workshops and we've been doing so for almost 20 years! We supply all the flash equipment, with each photographer rotating through our sets individually, and not sharing a session. There's so much more as you'll see when you read our brochure.

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Arizona Hummingbirds and Bat Photo Shoot and Workshop

This year, for the first time, we'll be offering a special combined shoot of our usual great hummingbirds and also bats, both photographed with our high speed flash setups and, for the bats, our camera tripping PhotoTraps. We'll be shooting the hummingbirds at our usual location in Madera Canyon, and the bats at two locations - the Canyon and The Pond. This is incredibly interesting photography!

 

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DIGITAL Photography Courses -

The Digital Complete Nature Photo Course - maximize the potential of your digital camera with exciting photography techniques most easily accomplished with digital cameras; learn workflow procedures; and learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop CS4 to put it all together! New Course and an exciting one! We conduct this course at two locations - our home at Hoot Hollow, and Hoot Hollow West, in Madera Canyon, south of Tucson, Arizona!

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Yellowstone Fall Wildlife
This is our most popular domestic Photo Tour for Wildlife Photography. Limited to 10 participants!

This was one of the first photo tours we ever offered, all the way back to 1985, and we're still doing this tour and loving it! Yellowstone has so much to offer, with great wildlife and great scenics and landscapes, that we simply never grow tired of sharing this wonderful park.

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Reptiles of the World Shoot
June 20-24, 2010
Contact our office (One Space available)


This is one of the most unique offerings with a wide variety of subjects. In a typical year we have at least 75 different species of reptile and amphibian, and sometimes well over 100. Although each year the subject matter differs, typically our list includes venomous snakes -- rattlesnakes, copperheads, cobras, mambas, bush vipers, nonvenomous snakes -- boas, pythons, tree snakes, milk and king snakes, some turtles, a variety of lizards -- geckos, monitors, iguanids, crocodilians - alligators, caimens, salt water crocs, and amphibians like US and foreign treefrogs, true frogs and toads, and more.

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Coastal Brown Bears and Digital Photography Workshop
Our travel schedule precludes our offering this course every year, but we enjoy it so much we wish we could! Imagine photographing Alaskan brown bears at ground or water level for frame-filling portraits and action shots!

 

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Humpback Whales in SE Alaska
We'll be offering this Photo Tour/Digital Workshop in August, 2011. Humpback
whales, bears, native American totems, Tongass National Forest, and more.

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Denali National Park
We will be offering our extremely fall photo tour to Denali some time in the future,
but not in 2010 or 2011.
We'll photograph landscapes and wildlife from our base at North Face Lodge,
giving us vehicle access into the park daily.
Contact our office for exact dates and availability.

 

Adobe Photoshop Courses

We'll be offering several photoshop courses for various levels of skill,
from beginner/intermediate to intermediate/advanced, problem solving courses, and print-making.

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Introduction to Photoshop (beginner/intermediate)
Experience shows us that 95% of the people who take this course, who believe they 'know' Photoshop know approximately 5% of what they need! Anyone interested in advancing in Photoshop should take this course!

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Photoshop II - The Next Step (intermediate/advanced)
Truly, this course will take you to the next step as it incorporates advanced and intermediate tricks and applications in Photoshop to your images, creating imaginative images or simply those you envisioned, where traditional photography would not suffice. The course will be a combination of lab time - instruction and application of Photoshop, and field time - photographing your vision.

 

Adobe Lightroom - Digital Workflow and Image Management
Lightroom is the image management program for many photographers, and the RAW converter is extremely powerful for maximizing the depth and power of your images. From Lightroom one can print, create web pages, do PDF presentations, and more, and you'll learn how in this course.