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It’s Been A Wild Ride – ANPW Comes to a Close

by admin on September 12, 2009

A little more than a year ago I had an idea. Why not run a free workshop? But as I worked on it I realized it wouldn’t be practical. Then I had a second idea. Run a workshop but the only people who get to attend are the workshop leaders and photographer/attendees who win the right by entering and winning a contest. It was a very odd approach. Usually, people pay ME to come on my workshops. But in this case, I paid them. And instead of our usual 12 persons to two instructors ratio, we went smaller. Four winners and four pros – a one-to-one ratio. This made for a more intimate and personal experience for all.

After I figured out what I wanted to do, the next step was to find sponsors. If I was going to bring four professional photographer/instructors and four amateur photographers to locations all over the western USA, I needed sponsors.

Thanks to Apple, Nik Software, Lensbaby, Drobo, Peachpit Press and ThinkTank Photo, we got the Aperture Nature Photography Workshops off the ground.

We ran four contests, one each quarter – the winners got free seats to the workshop, money for transportation, prizes, and more. They were all talented folks. Here they are, in no particular order…

Rhonda Holcomb, Bill Jeffries, Julie Stainbrook, Jarek Szymanski, Olga Yiparaki, Elyse Weadock, Ara Roselani, Bryan Holliday, Kimberly Haugen, David Orias, Nikki Frantz, John Harrison, Bryan Mahler, Cathy Chung, Richard Rothstein and Rob Trueman.

We went to some of the most beautiful locations in the USA. Mt. Rainier, Yosemite, the Tetons and Yellowstone.

Along the way we made lots of great images thanks in part to the great team of instructor/pros who helped me lead the workshops. Thanks to Rick Sammon, Gary Hamburgh, Steve Simon, Juan Pons, Frederick Van Johnson, Jennifer Wu, Scott Stulberg and Martin Gisborne.

I also want to thank our trip documentarians, Nicole Young, Cathy Chung, Liana Lehua and Lisa Bettany.

This concludes the ANPW series. We’ll keep this blog going for a while so we can continue to link to pictures, etc. We’ll have other wrap up posts and some pics and video from ANPW#4 soon.

Thanks to all who participated.

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Jennifer Wu Talks About How She Composes at Yosemite ANPW

by admin on January 31, 2009

Watch the video on Vimeo.

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Meet the Pros

by admin on August 30, 2008

Over the course of the year-long project we’re calling the Aperture Nature Photography Workshops, we’ll be assembling a first-rate crew of working professionals to inspire both the amateur winners of our contest and our community at large. Here’s the first bunch. We’ll be adding to this list throughout the year so check back.

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Scott Stulberg is a travel and stock photographer who often journeys to distant lands looking for unique stock opportunities. He is represented by many stock agencies including Corbis and Getty Images. A contributing writer for Shutterbug, he teaches many classes in digital photography and Photoshop at UCLA Extension and the Julia Dean Photography Workshops. From Microsoft, Newsweek and the New York Times, to greeting cards, calendars and book covers, his photographs are used internationally. His photographs are in collections all over the world, including the newly opened UCLA Medical Center, with prints displayed in over 60 patient rooms.

Steve Simon is an award-winning photographer who graduated from Concordia University in Montreal with a degree in Communications/Journalism. He has participated as a guest lecturer and workshop leader at various photography and arts events in Canada, The United States, and Argentina. He has had solo shows in New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Montreal and his work has been featured three times at the Visa Pour L’Image Photography Festival in Perpignan, France. His work is in the permanent collections of The George Eastman House, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Comune Di Verona. He’s also the author of several photography books.

Scott Bourne is a digital media pioneer and has been involved in photography for more than three decades. He’s the co-host and founder of This Week in Photography and the author of four photo books and three photography-related titles for Lynda.com.

Scott’s led workshops and seminars for, Palm Beach Photographic Center, Cooperative Communicators of America, WPPA, The Professional Photographers of America, Seattle Art Center, and Olympic Mountain School of Photography. He holds the designation Apple Certified Professional Trainer (T3) for Apple’s Aperture.

Over the course of the four workshops, we’ll also be joined by staff from Apple who will not only demonstrate some outstanding photographic techniques, but will also teach Aperture to all the attendees.

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You Can Win A Free Drobo!

by admin on August 24, 2008

You can win a free Drobo! All you have to do is join our new link contest. Link to http://aperturenatureworkshops.com from your blog or website, and you might just win.

At the end of the year, we’ll check our referrer logs and randomly select one link. The owner of the blog or website that posted that link wins the Drobo.*

So link away, and thanks for helping to spread the word about the Aperture Nature Photography Workshops.

*Contest open to U.S. residents, 18 years of age or older.

How to Enter Our Contest

by Scott on July 18, 2008

Photo by Scott Bourne

HOW: Each participant may submit one photograph in total. All images must be digitally uploaded.

WHEN: Submissions open August 15 at Noon, PST and close September 5, 2008 at 5:00 PM, PST.

WHERE: Photrade has built a contest management system for us. You can register for free and upload your images at the Photrade ANPW contest page.

Questions and inquiries can be emailed to aperturenatureworkshops@gmail.com. Due to the expected volume of entries and possible questions, we cannot guarantee a personal response to each question, but we will try to answer questions on the blog as often as possible.

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Aperture Nature Photography Workshops Blog

by Scott on July 15, 2008

Photo by Scott Bourne

Coming Soon!

Keep checking back here for the announcement you’ve been waiting for. You’ll have a chance to win an all expenses paid trip to one of four National Parks. It’s a photographer’s dream so stay tuned.

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