Workshops

Autumn Adirondack Color Workshop with Jennifer Wu

by Dave Warner on March 7, 2010

Autumn Adirondack Color Workshop – September 29-October 3, 2010 with Jennifer Wu – Explore the wonders of the Adirondack Park and Mohawk Valley with famed photographer and Canon Explorer of Light Jennifer Wu. This four and one half day workshop features sunrise and sunset shoots at spectacular locations, presentations by the instructor, Photoshop and Lightroom editing techniques, and a spectacular night photoshoot of the stars along with instruction on how to do your own astro-photography. Cost is $895.00 and the class is limited to 15 students. For more information and to sign up for the Workshop, please visit the Adirondacks Workshop site.

About Jennifer Wu

Jennifer has been a professional Photographer for over 15 years and specializes in nature and landscape photography. Her images have been widely published in magazines, newspapers and books. Her award winning fine art photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries including the Viewpoint Gallery and the Appel Gallery. She has also showed at numerous juried art festivals on the West coast including the Marin Art Festival. Jennifer is also a Canon Explorer of Light – a very unique group of the 62 best Canon Photographers in the world, as selected by Canon.

Jennifer attended the California State University, Sacramento where she received a BA in Photography. She currently combines her photography work with teaching photography at Cosumnes River College. In addition, she leads workshops for the Sierra Club and teaches a nature and landscape course for Betterphoto. She is based in Sacramento, California and makes California her specialty, especially the Eastern Sierra Nevada area. She enjoys hiking and backpacking in the Sierra Nevada region which she has done since she was a child. It is another home to her.

Jennifer’s night images of the stars, the Milky Galaxy and other points of interest are amazing. Participants in her workshops are inspired by her presentations and she has a level of enthusiasm that is contagious. If you’d like to listen to her speak AND see some of her work, you can visit her website, or listen to an interview she gave on LensFlare35.com.

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Great Locations – Southern Adirondacks & Mohawk Valley

by Dave Warner on July 4, 2009

If you love fall colors, greenery during the summer, wild flowers growing everywhere, lakes and mountains, consider visiting the Southern Adirondack & Mohawk Valley region of Upstate New York. A jumping off point is Dolgeville NY, where you can stay at a fantastic B&B called Wards Pond. In fact, it’s not a bad spot to start TAKING pictures as they have a great pond, and then the river right across the street.

Then, follow the river a few hundred yards North to the Dolgeville Mill. Previously owned by the Daniel Green Shoe Company, this old factory complex is a local landmark in Dolgeville and a fantastic place to shoot, both outside and in.  The corner stone of this unique structure was set in place on July of 1882. The mill is currently being used as an antique, second hand, and crafts shop and has the first Hydro Powered Dynamo (built by Thomas Edison) operating in the nation. It has been restored to full operation and provides all of the electricity for the mill.

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From Dolgeville, you can head a short distance up into Salisbury Center, shoot the old covered bridge there, and then turn right up 29A and into the Park. The Adirondack Park was created in 1892 by the State of New York amid concerns for the water and timber resources of the region. Today the Park is the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States, greater in size than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Park combined. The boundary of the Park encompasses approximately 6 million acres, nearly half of which belongs to all the people of New York State and is constitutionally protected to remain “forever wild” forest preserve. The remaining half of the Park is private land which includes settlements, farms, timber lands, businesses, homes, and camps.

This is a great region for photographers and artists, so we’ve created a special website called Adirondack Workshops to offer classes, tours and courses. If you’re interested in being either a leader or participant in any of them, please contact the editor for more information, or visit the website.

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