- Experience grandeur unlike any other.
- Walk into rainbows below and behind thundering waterfalls.
- Hike across vast glaciers, the largest south of the Arctic Circle.
- Slide into frozen ice caves.
- Scale up, into, around, and through one or more of 5 active volcanoes.
- Feel the primordial painted earth rumble beneath your feet.
- Walk through geothermal hotpots, steam vents, and geysers.
- Float amid icebergs ebbing in and out of glacial lagoon.
- Navigate a fiercely wild seacoast.
- Dive in crystal clear grottos.
- Float in sky blue hot springs.
- Spelunk in giant sea caves.
- Drive through the rivers of Europe’s largest desert.
- Chase wild horses.
- Steep yourself in history.
- Experience a unique culture, descendants of ancient Vikings now developing cutting-edge geothermal technology.
Iceland's variety and complexity is dizzying.
We'll get a taste of it all in this week long intensive workshop
You'll learn much more than technique, you'll learn how composition, style, and storytelling can be used in concert with one another to clarify, strengthen, and effectively communicate your own unique authentic voices. You'll get lots of guidance on site and reviews of your work offsite.
Get ready for a non-stop week of making images in a breathtakingly beautiful landscape.
"I learned more about how to move my photography forward in 5 days at JPs workshop than I learned in the previous 5 years." Kieron Monahan
"... in 4 days you turned me into an artist ... I've gone from being a writer with a photography hobby to a photographer with a writing hobby." Sam Kirsch
It's a R/Evolution
Think Different, Shoot Different
We're living through a R/Evolution. There's been more change in photography in the last 10 years than in its entire history. Today the possibilities for photographic image-making appear limitless. You can make photographs in new ways and energize your creative process. Put it all together and gain the perspective you need to gain maximum benefit from these recent advances in this digital photography workshop.
Free Yourself
Break the Rules, Break Your Rules
Free yourself. List all of the rules of photography. And break them - systematically. If you do this, you’ll develop a better understanding of the medium. Then, list all of your rules of photography. And break them - systematically. You’ll find either confirmation that what you’re doing is right for you or you’ll make new breakthroughs.
Start breaking the rules now! Read my PDF Breaking the Rules here.
Awareness brings choice. More choices leads to better choices. Better choices leads to better results.
Be Versatile
Try New Things, Learn New Skills
Learn new digital imaging skills - merges, hdr merges, painting with light, panoramic stitches, extending depth of field, creative focus effects, and more.
Learn new ways of interacting with your subject - select the scene from an unfolding event, set the stage for an impending drama, or create a new drama.
Learn to see in new ways - previsualize, postvisualize, or visualize.
Learn to see your work in new ways - valuable editing skills will help you find your best work and organize it to create a roadmap for successful presentation and identifying your next steps.
Everyone is creative. And everyone can learn to be even more creative. You can write. You can draw. You can move. You may not think you can. You may be comparing yourself to professional writers, painters, and dancers/actors. But, you can do all of these things. You'll experience powerful results when you put them all together. Did you know you already possess all of these skills and they can be used to energize your creative process and help you find your unique vision? Find out how in this digital photography workshop.
Tell Your Story
Uncover Your Authentic Voice
This week is about uncovering and empowering your authentic voice. You're unique. This time in the world is unique. These things have never happened before. So, to make unique work, all you have to do is tell your story. No one knows what that story is until you discover it. There are many kinds of stories and lots of ways to tell them. You'll find an optimum balance for you. You can do this guided by a master in a supportive community of like-minded but diverse creative people. It will be a complete immersion for everyone. The most important thing to bring is an open mind.
When you take a workshop you become a part of a community. You discover how much you have to learn from others - and how important that is. You also discover how much you have to give to others - and how good that feels. You can stay in touch with people who have similar shared experiences and interests on Flickr, Facebook, and my Alumni blog.
You're Different
Every Workshop is Different
Reviews of your work begin the week, are conducted throughout, and conclude the week.
Daily readings, discussions, demonstrations, and assignments will inspire and guide your individual explorations.
Specific curricula are customized for individuals.
