If the workshops below do not meet your needs or interest, consider scheduling private instruction and/or tutoring, online instruction, or photo tours.
San Francisco Bay Area Private Photography Instruction and/or Tutoring
My private instruction and/or tutoring is created for the photographer who wants accelerated learning or is time constrained and wants teaching that is more intensive or who wants help in a specific area of photography. I offer individual instruction and/or tutoring in any area of nature, wild life, black and white, architecture, macro, portraiture, and fine arts. Additionally I provide beginning, intermediate, and advanced instruction and/or tutoring in all aspects of photography.
I always give you honest, compassionate, and encouraging photographic advice. I do not withhold any ‘professional secrets.’ We are not competitors – we are partners.
Individual instruction and/or tutoring are available on a two-hour, half-day, full-day or multiple-day basis. My fee for single private instruction and or tutoring (up to three people shared) is $125.00 per hour, $325 per half day or $650 per day. A multiple-day fee is available; a 50% deposit is required at the time of booking.
Online Instruction
If you would like to learn photography in the comfort of your own home, consider enrolling in my online instruction.
San Francisco Bay Area Photo Tours
My fee for photo tours (up to three people shared) is $450 per half-day including instruction and critiques, or just the photo tour (no instruction) for $200 per half-day. Photo tours help you locate the best locations to maximize your camera gear. I will help you to embrace your visual interpretation while looking for the less obvious.
Workshop Philosophy
There are many fine photography workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area where you can learn the entire technical “how to," approach for your camera and the variety of subjects that you like to photograph. In these traditional workshops, the leader usually does not take any personal photography.
They give their full attention to the workshop participants. If you are interested in this valuable teaching approach then I highly recommend that you research them on the internet and select one that fits your needs.
I have a different perspective on teaching a photography workshop. Drawing on my writing, art, and photography background my teaching emphasis is more on spontaneous natural creativity rather than systematic technology.
I believe that it is the craft of ‘process,’ that creates the art of photography. Regardless of the technical acumen, your camera cannot tell you what to include in your composition. No matter how advanced your camera is, it cannot create a connection with your subject nor show you when to press the shutter button.
I have a very relaxed, yet aware personal teaching style. This allows me to be present with each participant since I do not have an agenda or itinerary to follow. I do want to inspire your passion, vision, and creativity and motivate you to become the photographer that you desire to be. I want to encourage your photographic inquires.
I want to share knowledge in an easy, flowing, uncomplicated manner. Show you how to see through the eyes of an artist. In the photography excursions that I facilitate in the San Francisco Bay Area, I know that it is all about the process of relationships that makes a difference in quality photography. This includes the relationship of connections, process, communication, space, light, and even unfamiliarity. The camaraderie of other participants is a valuable part of the learning process. Nurture your new friendships that emerge from these workshops.
We all learn by different means. Some of us are best with auditory learning and the rest learn best by visual means. Fewer prefer both auditory and visual. Talking about what we are doing as we do it has proven to be an effective approach. Demonstration by example combines both the auditory and visual. This is a significant reason why I take photographs right next to each of the participants.
Please contact me if you need more information at 415 314-5191 or Email me
San Francisco Bay Area Private Photography Instruction and/or Tutoring
My private instruction and/or tutoring is created for the photographer who wants accelerated learning or is time constrained and wants teaching that is more intensive or who wants help in a specific area of photography. I offer individual instruction and/or tutoring in any area of nature, wild life, black and white, architecture, macro, portraiture, and fine arts. Additionally I provide beginning, intermediate, and advanced instruction and/or tutoring in all aspects of photography.
I always give you honest, compassionate, and encouraging photographic advice. I do not withhold any ‘professional secrets.’ We are not competitors – we are partners.
Individual instruction and/or tutoring are available on a two-hour, half-day, full-day or multiple-day basis. My fee for single private instruction and or tutoring (up to three people shared) is $125.00 per hour, $325 per half day or $650 per day. A multiple-day fee is available; a 50% deposit is required at the time of booking.
Online Instruction
If you would like to learn photography in the comfort of your own home, consider enrolling in my online instruction.
San Francisco Bay Area Photo Tours
My fee for photo tours (up to three people shared) is $450 per half-day including instruction and critiques, or just the photo tour (no instruction) for $200 per half-day. Photo tours help you locate the best locations to maximize your camera gear. I will help you to embrace your visual interpretation while looking for the less obvious.
Workshop Philosophy
There are many fine photography workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area where you can learn the entire technical “how to," approach for your camera and the variety of subjects that you like to photograph. In these traditional workshops, the leader usually does not take any personal photography.
They give their full attention to the workshop participants. If you are interested in this valuable teaching approach then I highly recommend that you research them on the internet and select one that fits your needs.
I have a different perspective on teaching a photography workshop. Drawing on my writing, art, and photography background my teaching emphasis is more on spontaneous natural creativity rather than systematic technology.
I believe that it is the craft of ‘process,’ that creates the art of photography. Regardless of the technical acumen, your camera cannot tell you what to include in your composition. No matter how advanced your camera is, it cannot create a connection with your subject nor show you when to press the shutter button.
I have a very relaxed, yet aware personal teaching style. This allows me to be present with each participant since I do not have an agenda or itinerary to follow. I do want to inspire your passion, vision, and creativity and motivate you to become the photographer that you desire to be. I want to encourage your photographic inquires.
I want to share knowledge in an easy, flowing, uncomplicated manner. Show you how to see through the eyes of an artist. In the photography excursions that I facilitate in the San Francisco Bay Area, I know that it is all about the process of relationships that makes a difference in quality photography. This includes the relationship of connections, process, communication, space, light, and even unfamiliarity. The camaraderie of other participants is a valuable part of the learning process. Nurture your new friendships that emerge from these workshops.
We all learn by different means. Some of us are best with auditory learning and the rest learn best by visual means. Fewer prefer both auditory and visual. Talking about what we are doing as we do it has proven to be an effective approach. Demonstration by example combines both the auditory and visual. This is a significant reason why I take photographs right next to each of the participants.
Please contact me if you need more information at 415 314-5191 or Email me
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Architecture Photography Urban Workshop
DATE: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10am-2pm.
LOCATION: Palace of Fine Arts,
San Francisco, California.
TUITION: $225 USD.
DEPOSIT: A $25 USD non-refundable deposit holds your space.
DISCOUNT: There is a $25 early registration discount if full payment is received by June 15, 2008. Discounts are available for veterans, those with limited income, and the chronically ill.
EXPERIENCE: Designed for enthusiasts and professionals, beginner to intermediate.
EQUIPMENT: Any camera will work, digital or film, 35mm to large format. Bring your digital camera, owner’s manual, plenty of charged batteries, and extra storage media or film.
Color or black and white.
MAXIMUM WORKSHOP SIZE: 6 photographers, non-photographic companion not included.
NON-PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANION: You may bring along your non-photographic companion: a daughter, son, or significant other. There is no tuition for your non-photographic companion.
BREAKS: We always take an extended break, and sometimes eat lunch together.
CHANGES: Workshop itineraries are subject to change depending on class size and weather conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: I will acknowledge your workshop registration and reserve your place upon receipt of your deposit or tuition payment. I will then email to you workshop details and a bill for the balance.
CANCELLATION POLICY: Your payment is non-refundable if you cancel for any reason. However, I will apply your payment to a future workshop if I can fill your space. If I cancel the workshop, your payment is fully refundable.
ESSENCE: This workshop is developed by a photographer for photographers.
NOTE: Since weather can be unpredictable, come prepared for rain and high winds. Dress casually in layers for the weather and wear comfortable shoes.
WORKSHOP CONTENT
We will photograph the architecture of the Palace of Fine Arts, designed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. It is a Roman and Greek-inspired building with its beautiful park in the heart of San Francisco, where the Marina district meets the Presidio.
Our Architecture Photography Field Workshop will include the arch of the classical Roman rotunda with curved colonnades, ceiling of the rotunda, the Dome, Statue of a male battler for the arts, the peristyle of ornate Corinthian columns topped with maidens mourning the loss of art. There is so much more to photograph.
Along the eastern shores of the lagoon where you will see Australian eucalyptus trees, you can use your camera to document your own chance encounters with Herons, Swans, Ducks, Geese, Turtles, and Frogs that you may see.
After the workshop, you can visit the Exploratorium, founded in 1969. It is a world-renowned museum and educational center with 650 science, art, and human perception exhibits.
If you remain until dusk, you can photograph the artificially lit rotunda. Bring your tripod for long exposures.
Please contact me if you need more information at 415 314-5191 or Email me
The Wharf Photography Field Workshop
DATE: Saturday, July 12, 2008 10am-3pm.
LOCATION: Pier 39, the Cannery and Ghirardelli Square,
San Francisco, California.
TUITION: $225 USD.
DEPOSIT: A $25 USD non-refundable deposit holds your space.
DISCOUNT: There is a $25 early registration discount if full payment. Discounts are available for veterans, those with limited income, and the chronically ill. is received by June 5, 2008.
EXPERIENCE: Designed for enthusiasts and professionals, beginner to advanced.
EQUIPMENT: Any camera will work, digital or film, 35mm to large format. Bring your digital camera, owner’s manual, plenty of charged batteries, and extra storage media or film.
MAXIMUM WORKSHOP SIZE: 6 photographers, non-photographic companion not included.
NON-PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANION: You may bring along your non-photographic companion: a daughter, son, or significant other. There is no tuition for your non-photographic companion.
BREAKS: We always take an extended break, and sometimes eat lunch together.
CHANGES: Workshop itineraries are subject to change depending on class size and weather conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: I will acknowledge your workshop registration and reserve your place upon receipt of your deposit or tuition payment. I will then email to you workshop details and a bill for the balance.
CANCELLATION POLICY: Your payment is non-refundable if you cancel for any reason. However, I will apply your payment to a future workshop if I can fill your space. If I cancel the workshop, your payment is fully refundable.
ESSENCE: This workshop is developed by a photographer for photographers.
NOTE:Since weather can be unpredictable, come prepared for rain and high winds. Dress casually in layers for the weather and wear comfortable shoes.
WORKSHOP CONTENT
Are you interested in improving your photographs while having fun? Would you like to learn how to push yourself out of your comfort zone? Would you like sharing the company with like-minded people?
Does creating a travel photo essay sound exciting? Are you interested in learning how to stimulate your creativity, and gain fresh photographic ideas? Are you not realizing your photographic artistic vision? Then, this field workshop is for you.
Learn how to connect with and photograph the stranger on the street Document the events and people that you meet. Bring your model release to photograph musicians, magicians, pantomimes and other street performers.
We will photograph the Fisherman’s Wharf area, which runs from the National Maritime Museum, Ghiradelli Square, and The Cannery, down Jefferson Street to PIER 39.
In this photographically rich environment, there is an almost endless variety of photo possibilities.
We will photograph historic military and commercial ships from Pier 39, the San Francisco Carousel on the Wharf, the large colony of noisy California Sea Lions at West Marina on K-Dock and much more.
We will also photograph the panoramic San Francisco Bay views of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, Alcatraz, Angel Island and the City skyline.
Please contact me if you need more information at 415 314-5191 or Email me
Black & White Photography Urban Workshop
DATE: Saturday, August 16, 2008 10am-2pm.
LOCATION: Union Square,
San Francisco, California.
TUITION: $225 USD.
DEPOSIT: A $25 USD non-refundable deposit holds your space.
DISCOUNT: There is a $25 early registration discount if full payment is received by August 5, 2008. Discounts are available for veterans, those with limited income, and the chronically ill.
EXPERIENCE: Designed for enthusiasts and professionals, beginner to intermediate.
EQUIPMENT: Any camera will work, digital or film, 35mm to large format. Bring your digital camera, owner’s manual, plenty of charged batteries, and extra storage media or film.
MAXIMUM WORKSHOP SIZE: 6 photographers, non-photographic companion not included.
NON-PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANION: You may bring along your non-photographic companion: a daughter, son, or significant other. There is no tuition for your non-photographic companion.
BREAKS: We always take an extended break, and sometimes eat lunch together.
CHANGES: Workshop itineraries are subject to change depending on class size and weather conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: I will acknowledge your workshop registration and reserve your place upon receipt of your deposit or tuition payment. I will then email to you workshop details and a bill for the balance.
CANCELLATION POLICY: Your payment is non-refundable if you cancel for any reason. However, I will apply your payment to a future workshop if I can fill your space. If I cancel the workshop, your payment is fully refundable.
ESSENCE: This workshop is developed by a photographer for photographers.
NOTE: Since weather can be unpredictable, come prepared for rain and high winds. Dress casually in layers for the weather and wear comfortable shoes.
WORKSHOP CONTENT
If you ever took a photograph and wondered why you weren’t satisfied with it, then this is the workshop for you. Hone your black & white photography skills through practice.
Photograph the diverse architecture of this wonderful city beginning in Union Square and bordering with the theatre and the art galleries district, one of San Francisco’s main retail and cultural centers.
This workshop offers inspiring black and white possibilities with combining artistic expression and having fun exploring San Francisco's scenic, cultural and historic downtown.
Black & white images are timeless and cherished as fine art. Movies created in black and white have a special quality to them. The focus is more on the characters rather than the surroundings. There are few distractions.
Black and white photographs provide a similar focus. It has an evocative power that color images do not have. Translate how you see the world of color to black and white. Anticipate how different colors convert to shades of gray in the photograph.
Recognize distinctive shapes and interesting textures that create appealing black and white images. Embrace space, tone, texture, scale, and shades.
Please contact me if you need more information at 415 314-5191 or Email me
Macro & Close-Up Photography Field Workshop
DATE: Saturday, September 20, 2008 10am-2pm.
LOCATION: Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco, California.
TUITION: $225 USD.
DEPOSIT: A $25 USD non-refundable deposit holds your space.
DISCOUNT: There is a $25 early registration discount if full payment is received by September 10, 2008. Discounts are available for veterans, those with limited income, and the chronically ill.
EXPERIENCE: Designed for enthusiasts and professionals, beginner to intermediate.
EQUIPMENT: Any camera will work, digital or film, 35mm to large format. Bring a camera with wide angle and telephoto lenses, and any close-up or macro lenses or accessories you might have. Bring your digital camera, owner’s manual, plenty of charged batteries, and extra storage media or film.
MAXIMUM WORKSHOP SIZE: 6 photographers, non-photographic companion not included.
NON-PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANION: You may bring along your non-photographic companion: a daughter, son, or significant other. There is no tuition for your non-photographic companion.
BREAKS: We always take an extended break, and sometimes eat lunch together.
CHANGES: Workshop itineraries are subject to change depending on class size and weather conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: I will acknowledge your workshop registration and reserve your place upon receipt of your deposit or tuition payment. I will then email to you workshop details and a bill for the balance.
CANCELLATION POLICY: Your payment is non-refundable if you cancel for any reason. However, I will apply your payment to a future workshop if I can fill your space. If I cancel the workshop, your payment is fully refundable.
ESSENCE: This workshop is developed by a photographer for photographers.
NOTE: Since weather can be unpredictable, come prepared for rain and high winds. Dress casually in layers for the weather and wear comfortable shoes. After your registration, you will receive an email that provides additional information about this workshop.
WORKSHOP CONTENT
Do the details of our natural world fascinate you? A wonderful way to share flowers and insects, patterns in metal and wood is through macro and close-up photography.
Combine your love of the outdoors with the macro photographic techniques ‘down to earth’ on-location workshop at the Golden Gate Park.
The Golden Gate Park is located on the west side of San Francisco. We will explore many areas of the park including the Conservatory of Flowers, Stow Lake, the Dutch Windmills, and the Japanese Tea Garden.
By example, you will learn which camera settings enlarge the miniature world the way you see it. We will be taking macro and close up photographs of insects, textures, plants, and more.
Learn to sharpen and improve your macro photographic skills. Learn how to compose creatively and create the best macro image that is possible with the camera and lens that you own.
Learn how to photograph the intricate details of nature, architecture, etc.
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