Photo Workshops Miami has launched 2019 with Everglades Adventure & Location Lighting Workshops

Photo Workshops Miami has launched 2019 with two photo workshops. Everglades Adventure with Robert Sullivan on March 16, and Location Lighting Workshops with Rick Friedman on March 23 & 24.

ABOUT THE EVERGLADES WORKSHOP

Location  |  Clyde Butcher’s Big Cypress Gallery 52388 Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, FL 34141
All inclusive photo workshop - $795 per person  |  Early Bird Special $695 (limited quantities)

Experience Big Cypress National Preserve Everglades just as Clyde Butcher sees it right from his backyard! Come spend the day with award-winning photographer and instructor, Robert Sullivan, accompanied by photojournalist, Al Diaz and a naturalist guide on a swamp walk in the Everglades. Have lunch in a swamp cottage and watch an information-packed visual PowerPoint presentation on nature photography, then we move onto a boardwalk photo-walk. We will wrap up the day with a spectacular two-hour airboat ride to a Miccosukee Indian-owned island at sunset deep in the Everglades River of Grass.

• Spectacular two-hour sunset airboat ride to Miccosukee island that coincides with sunset “golden hour” and “blue hour”
• 12+ hours of adventure
• Continental breakfast
• Swamp walk with a naturalist and photography instructor Robert Sullivan  
• Tour Clyde Butcher's Big Cypress Gallery
• Lunch in Clyde Butcher's Swamp Cottage
• Photowalk & boardwalk
• Visual PowerPoint presentation by Sullivan

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ABOUT LOCATION LIGHTING WORKSHOPS: THE STUDIO | THE BEACH | WITH RICK FRIEDMAN

Location: Townsend Photographics, Inc. Studio 

4812 NE 12th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33334 

DAY ONE  |  THE STUDIO   |  SATURDAY, MARCH 23RD  |  10 AM - 5:30 PM | $249.95

​DAY TWO  |  THE BEACH   |  SUNDAY, MARCH 24TH  |  2 PM - 8 PM | $249.95

COMBO TICKET FOR BOTH WORKSHOPS | $395.95

DAY 1  |  THE STUDIO

Spend the day  with Rick Friedman in an intensive 

hands on portrait lighting workshop. Participants 

will come away with a greater knowledge

of how to control light using light modifiers 

and produce creative portraits while working 

and learning how to pose a live model.

DAY 2  |  THE BEACH

The beach will be our studio for the day as Friedman 

teaches you how to photograph a model in harsh 

conditions while controlling and overpowering 

the hot Florida sun using light modifiers, 

reflectors, soft boxes and scrims. 

We will progress into photographing at 

sunset’s "golden hour" and later the 

"blue hour" of gorgeous light.

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Focus on the Everglades Sunrise Wrap Up with Photo Workshops Miami

Nikon Ambassador Ron Magill leads the sunrise expedition in the Everglades. 

By Pamela Wentworth

pwent84@gmail.com

Focus on the Everglades, presented by Photo Workshops Miami was an incredible experience from beginning to end. 

We started our day - long before dawn –at the Coral Gables Museum where we met organizer Al Diaz, a Miami Herald photojournalist and one of our guides, Everglades Historian Cesar Alejandro Becerra on Saturday, January 30th. We boarded a comfortable van for the first leg of our adventure. Enjoying pasteles, breakfast sandwiches and fruit as we traveled west, we listened to Cesar recount the challenges and successes of the early pioneers as they constructed the “Tampa to Miami” or Tamiami Trail across the Everglades.  As we moved along the Trail, we marveled at the advances that have been made in the last one hundred years.

Sunrise in the Everglades by Enrique Monasterio

Arriving at the Miccosukee Village, we met our Everglades host and guide, Houston Cypress.  The morning chill and dampness had us all shivering as we loaded our gear aboard a large airboat, which would be our base for the next several hours. Earplugs in place, we pulled away from the dock in the darkness.  Our photography guide, Nikon Ambassador and Zoo Miami Communications Director Ron Magill, had assured us that we would be rewarded for the early hour by being in the right place at the right time to watch the sun come up. No one could have predicted the breath-taking beauty we witnessed.  First the grey then the red then a whole rainbow of colors played out across the water, grass and cypress trees where we sat. As Ron gave us tips and pointers, shutters clicked.  I will admit that at one point I just sat and drank in the sight, totally mesmerized by the changing light and colors.  Along with my photographs, I will carry that sunrise in my mind’s eye for a very long time.

Enrique Monasterio with Cesar Alejandro Becerra & Houston Cypress

When the light was fully up, we traveled through the area in the airboat photographing birds and early morning beauty until we arrived at our next destination – a hammock island called Little Pot.  

Our guide Houston Cypress photographed by Max Freund

We spent some time there exploring, shooting pictures, and listening to Houston tell about his life as part of the Otter Clan.  Another treat was in store as Al had arranged for us to share a wonderful lunch prepared by Houston’s mother.  Delicious!

Re-boarding the airboat, we started back, stopping to observe lilies and lily pads and experimenting with the light as Ron shared tips from his experiences as a wildlife photographer. His enthusiasm and knowledge were infectious. Participants were drawn into trying new techniques that resulted in stunning captures…the wows and ohhh’s as we looked at the results of our work encouraged more experimentation.

Ron Magill photographs flora as he leans over the side of the airboat. Al Diaz Photo.

We returned to the Coral Gables Museum and were greeted by Al’s wife, Cindy Seip who arranged coffee, tea and goodies for us to enjoy.  We toured the museum’s Tamiami Trail exhibit, then moved into the conference room to enjoy a presentation by Ron Magill.  To say that the next hour and a half sped by would be an understatement.  Listening to Ron share his expertise and photos was both delightful and inspiring.  Ron’s attitude is that we can all do what he does so he shares freely and unselfconsciously.  His love for his subject comes through in every shot. He wove stories into the sequences and showed how to improve pictures both with framing and with different settings and techniques. 

The day wrapped up with gifts and prizes and a visit to the Leica Store on Miracle Mile.  We came away knowing that because we had spent this day together, we would all be better photographers.

Marc Serota, at left, and the Polaroid University video crew document the day.

 

Main photo above, back left to right, is Enrique Monasterio, Pamela Wentworth, Frederic Friedmann, 
Ron Magill, William Freund, Max Freund and Ruth Blenker. Front left to right are, Al Diaz and Elkin Pabon.

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FOCUS ON THE EVERGLADES: Photo Workshop with Nikon Ambassador Ron Magill

RON MAGILL IS PLAIN AND SIMPLE ONE OF THE MOST VIBRANT STORYTELLERS IN PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY. ​— Joe McNally 

Improve your photography while spending the day on an airboat along the river of grass learning from the pros // PLUS WIN // some awesome product from MindShift Gear​, Peak Design​, Think Tank Photo​ and Polaroid University​ plus free prints from Image Pro International​. We are good to go with two final seats available!

Join Nikon Ambassador, Ron Magill and Miami Herald photojournalist Al Diaz, January 30th on an adventure destination photo workshop in the Everglades. After photographing sunrise in Big Cypress, our guides, Houston Cypress and Cesar Becerra will lead us to our destination — a private Miccosukee Village on an island deep in the Everglades. Transportation, breakfast and lunch included.

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All inclusive  |  Full Day  |  Photography Workshop  |  Space is Limited  |  Saturday, January 30, 2016

PHOTO EXHIBIT: Clyde Butcher's Everglades Gallery Opens Friday February 13 2:00pm - 8:00pm

Clyde Butcher's Everglades Gallery GRAND OPENING in Coconut Grove Friday February 13   2:00pm - 8:00pm 2994 McFarlane Rd Miami, FL Coconut Grove has always been one of my favorite towns. All of the independent-minded and vibrant spirited people make the Grove an exciting place for creative peopnd I’m happy to be a part of this wonderful community. GALLERY IS NOW OPEN 7 days a week 1:00pm-8:00pm Clyde Butcher's Coconut Grove Gallery GRAND OPENING Friday February 13 2:00pm - 8:00pm 2994 McFarlane Rd Miami, FL email Jackie@clydebutcher.com  Clyde Butcher Photo Gallery Opens in Coconut Grove BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI AVIGLUCCI@MIAMIHERALD.COM Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article9725729.html#storylink=cpy Clyde Butcher, whose famed photographs of primeval Florida rest upon the patient art of standing in water and muck until the light and the elements arrange themselves into the perfect composition, doesn’t actually seem to do a whole lot of sitting still. There are the talks, the open houses and book signings at his galleries in Venice and in Ochopee on the Tamiami Trail, the traveling exhibits — there’s one in Sarasota, “Preserving Eden,” featuring photos of Florida, and another, just closed at the Museum of the Rockies in Montana, of American landscapes — and, this week, the grand opening of his third gallery, in Miami’s Coconut Grove. Always, too, there are new photographic journeys. Butcher, who works only in black and white, just got back from photographing majestic old oaks in Louisiana and will soon head to the Florida Panhandle to photograph coastal dunes local activists are trying to save from development. This spring and summer, he will work in the Ten Thousand Islands in the Everglades and return to his beloved stomping grounds in Big Cypress, and then it’s on to Denali in Alaska, a state he has never visited. That will leave only one state he has never shot in: North Dakota. READ MORE HERE Clyde Butcher Everglades Gallery in Coconut Grove 2994 McFarlane Rd Miami, FL   Photo by Patrick Farrell Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article9725729.html#storylink=cpy