Truro Center for the Arts on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
This public lecture and audio-visual presentation will feature my visits to India and Holland, exploring these fascinating and colorful countries. Most of the images will be from my recent workshops there and will illustrate the concept of creating a destination photo essay. For details and to register, click here and scroll down.
Following our very successful 2012 trip, this foreign travel digital photography workshop will focus on Holland’s amazing extravaganza of tulips and other bulbs at prime locations in the charming and colorful Dutch countryside, as well as visits to explore Holland’s charming villages.
Our itinerary includes everything from the acres of colorful bulbs at the Kuekenhof Gardens and to countryside blanketed with tulip fields to the canals of Giethoorn and the iconic windmills around the town of Lekkerkirk. Visits to wonderful private gardens will complete your rare photo experience.
Our trip is geared to the needs and interests of photographers. Our group is limited to ten participants so you will get personal attention and one-on-one assistance throughout the workshop, whether you need advice on choosing the right lens, using the right settings, making the most of available light, adjusting to various kinds of weather or creating exciting compositions with color, texture and lines. Along the way, we will make time for review sessions to learn from each other’s images and develop our skills using easy after-capture techniques.
The price for this workshop is $4,000 per person with double occupancy; the single supplement is $800 per person. A $1,000 deposit to hold a space is due by January 15, 2014; the deposit is refundable less a $100 administrative fee until February 15 and the balance due by March 15.
I invite you to join me on this spectacular photographic journey. For a detailed itinerary and additional information, please call me at (646) 519 1751 or email me at [email protected].
Please join me next January on an unusual travel photography workshop that I will lead to South India, one of the world’s most exotic and colorful destinations. I’ve been to India several times and can tell you that it is a photographer’s dream — visually rich and culturally fascinating.
South India is home to fabulous Hindu temples, colorful markets, fascinating villages, beautiful gardens, unspoiled beaches, misty hillside plantations and much more offering a stunning array of photographic opportunities.
Our trip runs at the perfect time: in January the weather is more temperate and it’s the month of the amazing Pongal harvest festival. We start in Chennai (formerly Madras) and end in Bangalore. In between, we will experience the vast array of South Indian culture — all with excellent guides who know the region and have relationships with its people.
This workshop will pay special attention to the needs of photographers. The group is limited to ten participants. That means you’ll have plenty of individual attention in the field and enough time in each location for serious photography. We’ll have opportunities to respond to the unexpected and even for review sessions every few days along the way.
The cost of this incredible trip is just $5,000 per person, double occupancy; $1,000 per person single supplement. A deposit of $1,000 is required with your registration; the deposit is refundable less a $100 administrative fee until October 15 and the balance is due by November 15, 2013.
In addition to my daily photographic instruction, this includes transfers at arrival and departure, accommodations at 4-and 5-star hotels throughout; all breakfasts and dinners; air-conditioned transportation, local English-speaking guides, monument entrance charges, taxes and service charges. It does not include international airfare but we can help you with making those arrangements.
I urge you to join me on this unusual photographic journey. For a detailed itinerary and additional information, please call me at (646) 519 1751 or email me at [email protected]. I know this will be one of your most memorable travel experiences and a photographic opportunity of a lifetime.
Vero Beach Museum of Art
Travel almost always goes together with photography. But how many of us come back from our journeys with the kind of strong images professionals create for catalogs and magazines? In this weekend workshop, I will share the tricks of trade that I developed during my many years traveling on assignment for magazines and corporate clients. In preparation for our field outings, we’ll develop a shot list so everyone goes into the field with a clear purpose. We’ll also discuss essentials like 1) creating a sense of place; 2) creating a mood using natural light; 3) photographing people, including friends and strangers. Then, using locations in the Vero Beach community as our destinations, you will have opportunities to gather images for individual travel photo essays. The workshop will include daily review sessions to help you hone your photographic skills and enhance your vision by seeing and analyzing images by all workshop participants. We will also explore after-capture techniques to perfect our images further. For details and to register, click here.
Vero Beach Museum of Art
This public lecture and audio-visual presentation will feature my visits to India and Holland, exploring these fascinating and colorful countries. Most of the images will be from my recent workshops there and will illustrate the concept of creating a destination photo essay. For details and to register, click here.
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
Travel almost always goes together with photography. But how many of us come back from our journeys with the kind of strong images professionals create for catalogs and magazines? In this weekend workshop, I will share the tricks of trade that I developed during my many years traveling on assignment for magazines and corporate clients. In preparation for our field outings, we’ll develop a shot list so everyone goes into the field with a clear purpose. We’ll also discuss essentials like 1) creating a sense of place; 2) creating a mood using natural light; 3) photographing people, including friends and strangers. Then, using locations in the Dallas community as our destinations, you will have opportunities to gather images for individual travel photo essays. The workshop will include daily review sessions to help you hone your photographic skills and enhance your vision by seeing and analyzing images by all workshop participants. We will also explore after-capture techniques to perfect our images further. For details and to register, email Allen.
July 28: Lecture and Audio-Visual Presentation on How I See a Garden: The Delights of Garden Photography; Chicago Botanic Garden. For details, click here.
July 29-30: Focus on Flowers: Discover the Beauty of Flowers and Gardens, a 2-day workshop at the Chicago Botanic Garden. For details, click here.
August 1-4: Nature Photography in the Digital Age, a one-week workshop at the Peninsula School of Art in Fishcreek, Wisconsin. For details, click here.
October 11-13: Focus on Travel: Creating a Destination Photo Essay, a long weekend workshop at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. For details, click here.
October 17: Lecture and Audio-Visual Presentation on Focus on Travel: Creating a Destination Photo Essay, at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. For details, click here.
October 18-20: Art in the Digital Age: A Nature Photography Workshop, a long weekend workshop at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. For details, click here.
October 25: Lecture and Audio-Visual Presentation on Incredible India at Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania. For details, click here.
October 26-27: A Fall Photography Weekend Workshop at Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania. For details, click here.
November 8: Lecture and Audio-Visual Presentation on Focus on Travel: Creating a Destination Photo Essay, at the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Florida. For details, click here.
November 9-10: Focus on Travel: Creating a Destination Photo Essay, a weekend workshop at the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Florida. For details, click here.
January 6-27: South India Photography Adventure, a travel photography workshop to India’s exotic temple cities and lush countryside. To see images from last year’s workshop, look here. For details, click here.
February 13-17: Key West Color and Light, a long weekend workshop at the Studios of Key West. To see images from last year’s workshop look here and here. For details, contact me here.
April 3-6: The Wildflowers of Texas, a long-weekend workshop sponsored by the Dallas Arboretum. To see images from last year’s workshop look here and here. For details, contact me here.
April 18-28: Storybook Holland: A Digital Travel Photography Workshop during the peak of the tulip bloom. To see images from last year’s workshop look here, here and here. For details, click here.
Dear Fellow Shutterbug,
I know it’s been a while since my last update. My apologies.
I’ve really been on the road quite a bit, with two back-to-back foreign trips — a wonderful exploration of Peru last December followed by my South India Photography Adventure in January. Then I spent some time in Florida with a lectures and workshops in Kissimee and Key West, followed by workshops in New York and Texas. Look at “New Shoots” at the right here and here for photos taken at some of these workshops.
Now I’ve just come back from a three-week road trip on the West Coast scouting for destinations and visiting some of you along the way. It’s always fun to meet with my students around the country to explore the areas where they live. I’m sure some new workshops will emerge from those travels. By the way, I always enjoy hearing from you. Here’s a really nice post from a participant in one of my workshops.
In the meantime, I’ve put together a schedule of lectures and workshops for the next few months and beyond. I hope some of them will entice you. Please see the listings below and tell your friends.
Whether you are a returning student or a new participant, I hope to see you at one or more of these workshops to learn, have fun together and renew or build our connections.
Enjoy the rest of your summer!
All the best and hope to see you soon,
Allen Rokach
Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania
The gardens at Chanticleer are designed to look spectacular in each season. In autumn, the garden’s innovative combination of plantings — a great mix of fall flowers and colorful foliage of every shape and texture — create an especially exciting palette for photographers. This workshop will concentrate on creating images built around color, shape, line and texture, making strong visual statements using these abstract elements of design. We will also focus on portraying flowers in their garden setting, which is so special at Chanticleer. Then, in our review sessions, we will explore ways to improve and fine-tune our images in creative ways using today’s amazing but simple after-capture applications. For details and to register, click here.
Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania
This public lecture and audio-visual presentation will feature my visits to India, exploring this fascinating and colorful country. Most of the images will be from last year’s South India Photography Adventure, the workshop I led last January. For details and to register, click here.
Truro Center for the Arts on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
This workshop will explore the many ways that digital photography has opened new doors for creative expression. The emphasis will be on developing an expansive photographic vision and learning how to use our digital cameras to help us articulate that vision. In daily outings to a variety of locations around Cape Cod, we will work on defining our individual perspectives and finding ways to realize them. Then in our review sessions, we will take advantage of today’s simple but amazing after-capture techniques to bring our images to even greater artistic heights, so bring your laptops. For details and to register, click here.
Peninsula School of Art in Fishcreek, Wisconsin
Digital imaging has revolutionized photography and liberated photographers. In this intensive four-day photography workshop, I will guide participants to the limitless possibilities of digital nature, landscape, garden, and flower photography, finding our subjects on and around the beautiful grounds of the Peninsula School of Art. For details and to register, click here.
Chicago Botanic Garden
The Chicago Botanic Garden is unique for its variety of gardens — English, Japanese, prairie, etc. — an ideal setting for photographing a wide variety of flowers and other plants. We’ll have access to the gardens early in the morning before it opens to the public so we can focus on mastering macro-photography techniques with our digital cameras. This intensive two-day workshop is designed for all photographers who want to improve their images of floral close-ups and groupings. We will concentrate on creating images built around color, shape, line, texture and mood, making strong visual statements using these abstract elements of design. Then, in our review sessions, we will explore ways to improve and fine-tune our images working with today’s amazing but simple after-capture photo editing techniques, so bring your laptop. For details and to register, click here.
Chicago Botanic Garden
This public lecture and audio-visual presentation will focus on my personal perspective on some of the great private gardens I have visited, seen and photographed around the United States — and the amazing people who have created them. For more information and register, click here.
On the Drawing Board:
Following on last year’s very successful trip, this foreign travel digital photography workshop will focus on Holland’s amazing extravaganza of tulips and other bulbs at prime locations in the charming and colorful Dutch countryside, as well as visit and explore Holland’s charming villages. For details and to register, contact [email protected].
Sponsored by the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden
I’ll be returning to the Brenham area of Texas for this 4-day digital photography workshop, which explores this prime spring wildflowers destination. We will go to several locations, including private ranches, to find the best places for photographing this eye-popping array of bluebonnets, coreopsis, Indian paintbrush, Texas winecups and other colorful specimens which blanket wide swatches of the landscape here. We’ll be photographing at sunrise and late afternoon to sunset with time in between for instruction on the finer points of digital photography, including after-capture techniques; review sessions; and personal exploration of the local towns. This workshop sold out last year so register early. For details and to register, click here.
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