Travel, Landscape, Fashion Photography

Vitre, Brittany, France

Details of this one day workshop in Ottawa are posted here.

Ottawa Photography Classes

Are you stuck in a photographic rut? Maybe you are and you don’t even know it. If you are taking the same style and type of pictures over and over again and using the same techniques. Then, you are in a rut!

Want to improve your photography and take it to a whole new level? Then join me this autumn for a 5 day, 3 evening workshop in Ottawa during the peak of the fall colours. DETAILS This course is designed for anyone who wants to improve their photography. No matter how good or bad you think you are, this course is for you. Receive in the field instructionals, tutorials, hands on learning and feedback on your photos. Learn how to create visually stunning images, not just a record of what you see. Our primary FOCUS will be developing your photographic vision.

Country Road, Autumn, Gatineau Park

There is only 1 space still open for this workshop. (Exception will be made for a couple registering)

Yesterday evening was the last classroom session for this year’s Ottawa Spring Photography Workshop. It’s always great to see the improvement in the participant’s photography. And to think that it only takes a couple of weeks of classroom instruction and photography on the weekend field trips to achieve this. I am constantly being amazed at the stunning pictures that everyone creates on the workshops and how their photography is taken to a new level of creativity and vision. Congratulations to all of the students for creating another successful workshop – Thanks!!!

I would have never thought that in Ottawa on May 1st that the tulip blossoms would have peaked, but that’s what has happened this year.  Depending where in the world you live, this might either be late for the peak or early for you. For Ottawa it’s at least 2 weeks early, by the middle of the month when they should normally be peaking and Ottawa celebrates with it’s Tulip Festival, all of the tulips will be gone.

The classes for the spring photo workshop aren’t scheduled to start until this coming Wednesday evening and the first field trips until next weekend.  In order to make sure that we didn’t miss out on the tulips, we added an extra field trip day to the workshop.  The above photo was taken this morning at the tulip beds in Commissioners Park at Dow’s Lake on our  bonus field trip. So if you live in Ottawa and you don’t want to miss out on the spring blossoms, get out this week with your camera!

As unusually cold weather grips most of the US, the UK and parts of Europe with record cold temperatures and snow, here in Ottawa we are just having a normal winter. Ottawa has several months of non stop frigidly cold freezing weather and snow, and rather than complain about it (well sometimes we do) we celebrate it! Every February we have a winter festival called Winterlude. There’s skating on the Rideau Canal (the world’s largest outdoor rink), ice and snow sculpture competitions and many other winter activities. I’ve had several requests for a winter photo workshop, so I thought this would be the perfect time.

Both Winter and Winterlude  provide us with lots of photo opportunities, there are the preconceived obvious shots and then there are the found unexpected photos. For one weekend in February join me on this discovery. Details of the workshop are posted HERE