Workshop and Tour Events
2009-2010

China Southwestern
Photographic Cultural Tour – 18 days
March 2009
Highlights: Arrive and departure will be from Shanghai. We will visit many unique
Areas with a destination to YunNan province.
Tour boat trip on the Makong River into the ‘Golden Triangle’. Thailand, Laos and Myanmar
We will be visiting minority tribes and photographing their cultures and of course the rice terraces. The Li River is my favourite with the krast shaped hills and the fisherman with their cormorants.
Our guide will be Yau-Sun Tong – from Nova Scotia – he knows this area like the back of his hand. To see his photography: http://photoart.chebucto.org/photonews.html

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March – dates and costs to be confirmed.

Wildflowers & Seascapes - Hornby Island, British Columbia
May 2 – 7, 2009
Passport Required
Assisting instructor: Sharron Milstein
 
Hornby Island, the crown jewel of BC’s Gulf Islands, offers a rich visual palette to nature and landscape photographers. From dramatic sea-side bluffs to driftwood-strewn beaches and lush coastal forests, photographic subject matter abounds. Gentle woodland trails lead to shorelines distinctive for the fascinating shapes, textures and colours of the sandstone rock formations. Hornby Island is home to many birds and a varied population of marine mammals including blue herons, cormorants, bald eagles, harlequin ducks, sea lions, and seals. The warm days of early May bring forth a profusion of wildflowers. Shooting stars, fawn lilies, chocolate lilies, blue camas, lady’s slippers and many more beauties grace the inland meadows and grassy sea bluffs.

It gives me great pleasure to be working with Sharron Milstein, well known photographer, teacher and workshop leader. For years Sharron and I have tried to get together running a workshop and we’ve finally achieved that goal. Please join us.

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Painted Hills, Oregon
May 16 - 19 2009
Painted Hills has been a favourite of mine – so I would like to share it with you. The colours of the hills are a photographer’s delight. The layers of volcanic ash display varying colours from red, orange, pink, bronze, tan and black and every colour in between. The hues vary in intensity with the ever changing light from early morning light to the evening light. AND if we are fortunate the little ‘bee’ flower will add a bright yellow flow of colour in the crevices.

Cost per person: $495.00
If you participate in both Smith Rock and Painted Hills workshops: Cost per person $ 670.00
Both of these areas (Smith Rock & Painted Hills) will give us lots of practise in doing panoramas, close-ups and honing our landscape photography skills.

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Smith Rock, Oregon
May 21 - 23 2009
Smith Rock virtually unnoticed by photographers is an area known for its majestic spires of the Crooked River Canyon. It is rated as the best rock climbing area in the States. Photographic opportunities that present themselves from panoramic views of the canyon to climbers practicing the challenges of rock climbing.

Cost Per Person: $250.00
If you participate in both Smith Rock and Painted Hills workshops: Cost per person $ 670.00

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Winter in Yellowstone
January 28—February 5, 2010
In the winter the park is a place touched by magic. It is a world hushed by a blanket of snow and where the trees become sculpted ‘ghosts’, waterfalls become encased in ice, mists and steam rising from the rivers create a mysterious atmosphere. It is a season alive with wildlife. Bison plow through deep snow in search of buried food, elk graze on grass still green from the hear near the hot pools and bubbling springs. We will explore the Geysers Basis where the backdrop of steam veils bubbling hot pools and thermal features. Floating in the rivers current your view finder will capture graceful trumpeter swans.

Cost: $2,375.00 includes transportation, accommodations.

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Travel to Peru with Karen Massier and Leona Isaak in March 2010.

A chance to discover the natural beauty and history of the high Andean mountains of Peru awaits you, when photographers Karen Massier and Leona Isaak lead you on a photography tour of Peru.

The two award winning photographers will guide you through Peru to photograph the best Peru has to offer on a 17 day adventure. Imagine stepping through a threshold of ancient Incan treasures and returning with a fresh enlightened vision - one you have experienced with your own senses and captured with your own camera to show the world!

Karen and Leona take you to photograph the lost city of the Incas, Machu Picchu and the surrounding areas of the Sacred valley; Lake Titicaca, Colca Canyon, Arequipa and other less travelled areas. What makes this tour unique is the itinerary is enhanced with the opportunity to photograph local indigenous people in traditional clothing.

Leona has been offering photography tours for the past 10 years and with Karen's passion for travel and photography they are a perfect match to lead you on an unforgettable tour of the South American country of Peru.
Peru Photo Tours limits the tour to only 12 participants so that means at the very maximum there is one guide to 6 people. The tours are small so that a personalized service can be enjoyed with opportunity to learn from others.

Peru Photo Tours is based in the Fraser Valley in beautiful British Columbia. Contact Karen at 604-850-3718 karenmassier@shaw.ca or Leona 604-824-6285 fotolady@telus.net

Turkey
April 2 - 20, 2010

More information to follow.