Workshops
Great Basin National Park Night Photography
June 11-16, 2021
To find truly dark skies for night photography, you need to go “off the grid”! Great Basin National Park in Nevada is just that. Deemed an official International Dark Sky Park, Great Basin’s remote location, minimal light pollution, and high elevation is the perfect place to view the celestial heavens. On moonless, clear nights, the skies are illuminated with thousands of stars, planets, galaxies, meteorites, and of course the Milky Way. During this five-night workshop, photographer and author of “Fun in the Dark: A Guide to Successful Night Photography”, Beth Ruggiero-York, will instruct on proper settings and techniques to capture the beauty of the night skies. The park’s diverse terrain of ancient Bristlecone pines, glacial lakes, and its towering 13,000′ Wheeler Peak, provides great foreground opportunities in your night sky images. When not in the field enhancing your night photography skills, Beth will show you how to get the most out of your images in post-processing and composition with in-class image critiques. We base the workshop at Hidden Canyon Retreat, a beautiful guest ranch about 20 minutes from the park. The ranch sits on 350 acres in Big Wash Canyon. While this workshop focuses on night skies, there is plenty to see and shoot in daylight as well, and we’ll make time to capture it.
This is an Arizona Highways PhotoScapes workshop
Price: $2,895
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Night Skies at Bryce Canyon (I and II)
September 4-7 and 9-12, 2021
Spend three nights and four days photographing spectacular night and morning scenes in Bryce Canyon National Park. During the workshop, we will shoot sunset and blue hour followed by night shots with the Milky Way. There will also be two sunrise shoots at the most picturesque locations in the Park.
This is an Arizona Highways PhotoScapes workshop
Price: $1,895
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Fall in Acadia National Park
October 10-14, 2021
Spend five days photographing spectacular scenes in Acadia National Park with photographer, Beth Ruggiero-York. During the workshop, our group will be based in the charming town of Bar Harbor, gateway to Acadia, with its ocean views and nautical ambiance. During the workshop, there will be an abundance of photo opportunities including capturing fall color at all times of the day, shooting the beautiful woodland areas, rocky beaches, carriage bridges, and enjoying a night shoot on Cadillac Mountain, the tallest mountain in Acadia with amazing views. Throughout the workshop, the group will have opportunities to improve their photography while shooting everything from vivid sunrises and sunsets to macro shooting, long exposures, and intimate landscapes. Join us in Acadia for what will be one of your most memorable photo experiences.
This is an Arizona Highways PhotoScapes Workshop
Price: $3,095
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Night Skies in Death Valley National Park
January 27-30, 2022
Experience a different level of night photography with Beth Ruggiero-York and Arizona Highways PhotoScapes as we photograph the dark skies in Death Valley National Park. In this workshop, Beth will teach and guide you to photograph night landscape images. During this workshop, and you will learn how to create dramatic night landscapes with star-filled skies. You will also learn how to photograph star-trail images with beautiful foregrounds. With the exquisite textures of Death Valley National Park there are many new photographic experiences for you to explore. We will shoot Zabriskie Point, as well as Mesquite Dunes, Dante’s View, 20-Mule Team Drive, and other unique locations. Other opportunities will present themselves as we travel through the park. There will be classroom sessions to review and reinforce night photography techniques, to critique participants’ images, and to learn special skills for post-processing night images for the best possible results. We hope you will join us on this one-of-a-kind night workshop in a one-of-a-kind location!
This is an Arizona Highways PhotoScapes workshop
Price: $2,195, $500 deposit
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Arizona Night Skies
April 24-27, 2022
This workshop is all about night photography, from shooting the Milky Way to starry-filled skies. Based in Sasabe, Arizona at the historic Rancho de La Osa, this location provides incredible dark skies and interesting foreground subjects. We will also spend time photographing at the nearby Buenos Airs National Wildlife Refuge. During the course of the workshop, we will have opportunities to shoot the Milky Way and starry skies with little to no light pollution. During the day, photographer and author of “Fun in the Dark: A Guide to Successful Night Photography” Beth Ruggiero-York will host classroom sessions on night techniques, as well as hold image critiques and provide instruction on post-processing for night images. Each night, we will choose different foregrounds for our shoot and use light painting as needed to enhance the compositions. Using the ranch as our base location, participants have the flexibility to stay outside and shoot as long as they wish or turn-in to their rooms at their leisure. During the daytime, there will some free time to either shoot around this historic ranch, download and work on images, or simply rest and enjoy the surroundings.
** If Kitt Peak Observatory reopens for 2022 we will adjust our itinerary to begin one day earlier on Saturday, April 23, 2022, with an overnight for astrophotography. Workshop fees will be adjusted accordingly.
This is an Arizona Highways PhotoScapes workshop
Price: $1,695
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CASTLES, COUNTRYSIDE AND MEDIEVAL TOWNS OF SOUTHWESTERN FRANCE
JULY 17-24, 2021
A travel photography retreat with
Beth Ruggiero-York and Ron York
Marouatte Castle, Dordogne, France