Abstract Astoria Photography Retreat with Art Wolfe

Join Art Wolfe for an intensive field session based on his comprehensive photography curriculum that he has been honing for years. Art will work closely with you personally to really transform and refine your skills. Together you will explore the nature of creativity itself and discover ways to bring its power to your images.

Date: May 24-28, 2018
Destination: Astoria, Oregon, USA
Genre: Fine Art, Conceptual, Storytelling, Nature, Landscape
Skill Levels: All Skill Levels
Group Size: Max. 8
Includes: Exclusive gift of Art`s limited edition art book, Human Canvas, which includes a signed and numbered collector`s edition print from the Human Canvas collection (a $1,400 value)

Workshop Details

This special workshop is beginning on Friday, May 24th, with a Welcome Gathering at the Union Fish Room at the Cannery Pier Hotel in Astoria.

The following three days will be an intensive field session based on Art’s comprehensive photography curriculum that he has been honing for years.

Art’s goal is work closely with each participant to really transform and refine their skills.

An image can have the power to stimulate the imagination and the intellect while also telling a story that awakens the senses.

Art’s challenge is to explore the nature of creativity itself and discover ways to bring its power to your images.

Led by Art Wolfe

Limited to 8 participants
Minimal hiking involved

Exclusive Special Bonus

This workshop comes with a special bonus: exclusive gift of Art’s limited edition art book, Human Canvas, which includes a signed and numbered collector’s edition print from the Human Canvas collection (a $1,400 value)

Transportation and Accommodation

Participants are responsible for their own transportation, lodging and meals.

We have secured a block room reservation for our group at a local hotel. Upon registration you will download a PDF that includes the hotel information. Please call the hotel directly and reference the Art Wolfe workshop.

Workshop Schedule

Shooting schedules have the ability to be altered to effectively cater to the photographic desires of the group, as well as to adapt to changeable weather conditions.

Day 1

Meet and greet at 6pm at Union Fish Room at Cannery Pier hotel. Everyone can introduce themselves, and Art will give a brief description of the proposed itinerary.

Light hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served

Photography As Art Lecture

Group no host dinner

Day 2

Field shoot

Download images from the day of shooting

Dine together with Art and staff (no host dinner)

Day 3

Morning critique. Each participant will provide three images from Day 2. This will give you the chance to build on successes and learn from mistakes of the previous day.

Photography As Art Lecture

Field shoot

Dine together with Art and staff (no host dinner)

Day 4

Morning critique. Each participant will provide three images from Day 2. This will give you the chance to build on successes and learn from mistakes of the previous day. Field shoot

Group discussions, critiques or lectures

Dine together with Art and staff (no host dinner)

Day 5

Lecture and critique. Learn from each other’s images while they are projected for the group. Art will adjust them in Adobe Lightroom and provide instruction.

Workshop will conclude by 12pm

Testimonials

Sir David Attenborough

“Art Wolfe’s photographs are a superb evocation of some of the most breathtaking spectacles in the world.”

Morgan Freeman

“Art Wolfe is a virtuoso whose eye brings home, again and again, the absolute need to preserve what we have.”

Robert Bateman

“Art Wolfe is an artist. He works with all of the artistic elements . . . line, form, texture, composition, light and shadow and produces visual masterpieces…”

Robert Redford

“Art Wolfe’s work tells a story that is overwhelming, breathtaking, and vast.”

Peter Matthiessen

“The intensity, texture, and strange density of Art Wolfe’s photographs are truly astonishing.”

Student Testimonials

John S.

“The workshop was the most intense, personal experience of any photo seminars/workshops I've attended... The review of technical basics like the 10 deadly sins plus the near genius demonstration by Art of the capabilities of Lightoom will allow me to continue to progress as a serious amateur.”

Cory Kitzan

“I want to thank you and Art, and the whole group, for a wonderful weekend. I learned so much! It was a great mixture of lecture, field work, and critiquing. It was physically and mentally challenging, and I loved it!”

Norton Johnson

"Going to Art Wolfe’s workshop is like going to a fine art appreciation class the way he approaches composition. Any artist/photographer would enjoy his stories on how he came about with the composition of many of his works. It was a joy to spend the three days with Art and his well qualified assistants! I plan on doing it again."

Art Wolfe

The son of commercial artists, Art Wolfe was born on September 13, 1951 in Seattle, Washington, and still calls the city home.

He graduated from the University of Washington with Bachelor’s degrees in fine arts and art education in 1975. His photography career has spanned five decades, a remarkable testament to the durability and demand for his images, his expertise, and his passionate advocacy for the environment and indigenous culture.

During that time he has worked on every continent, in hundreds of locations, and on a dazzling array of projects. Wolfe’s photographic mission is multi-faceted.

By employing artistic and journalistic styles, he documents his subjects and educates the viewer.

His unique approach to photography is based on his training in the arts and his love of the environment.

His goal has always been to win support for conservation issues by “focusing on what’s beautiful on the Earth.” Hailed by William Conway, former president of the Wildlife Conservation Society, as “the most prolific and sensitive recorder of a rapidly vanishing natural world,” Wolfe has taken an estimated two million images in his lifetime and travels nearly nine months out of the year photographing for new projects, leading photographic tours and seminars, and giving inspirational presentations to corporate, educational, conservation and spiritual groups.

Pricing

Total Cost: USD $3,750.00

Deposit: USD $3,750.00

CANCELLATIONS Should you need to cancel, you must do so no less than 30 business days prior to the course date to receive a refund, less a handling fee of 5%.

If you cancel between 30 and 10 business days prior to your course, you will receive a 50% refund.

If you cancel between 10 and 1 business day(s) prior to your course, there is NO refund of the course fee paid.

If we need to cancel a session for any other reason, a full refund or credit for another workshop taken within 12 months will be issued promptly following cancellation.

Please check on your workshop status before making travel arrangements.

Art Wolfe Inc is not responsible for reimbursement of airline tickets.

We encourage all participants to consider purchasing travel insurance.

TRANSFERS If you would like to transfer to a different course, or different dates for the same course, we would be happy to accommodate your request on a space-available basis and with the payment of an administrative fee.

If you transfer more than 30 days prior to your originally scheduled course, the fee will be $50.

Transfers are not possible 30 days or less prior to the course you are registered for.

Lodging, airfare, transportation and meals are not included.

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