Join us October 21 – 25, 2024 for a five day Lake Powell Photography Workshop. This is a unique adventure for photographers with a background in landscape photography or desire to learn it. We will cruise on a 75 ft. long luxury houseboat and take along two deck boats for access to more remote sites. We will also take short day hikes to reach additional photographic opportunities in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau. It will be an opportunity to create wonderful photographs and improve your photographic skills.

You will be able to photograph, depending on the lake’s water level and weather conditions, the Anasazi Canyon, Cathedral Canyon, Confluence Canyon, Cottonwood Canyon, Dominguez Butte, Face Canyon, Gregory Butte, Gunsight Butte and Canyon, Labyrinth Canyon, Last Chance Canyon, Padre Bay with Cookie Jar & Weathering Pit Ridge, Rock Creek Canyon and other sights along the way. We plan this adventure to arrive at the best spots at the best time of the day.

We are offering a unique add-on which will consist of a morning flight on the first workshop day and/or a sunset flight on the last workshop day. The flight duration is about an hour over the Glen Canyon area, including the most famous Reflection Canyon.

Please note this is an additional purchase to the standard registration.

Murray Elliot, a Capture Integration representative and a Phase One representative, will join us for the entire workshop and provide us with Phase One XT cameras and Rodenstock lenses. You will be able to work one-on-one with Phase One experts during these days. This is a unique opportunity to lay your hands on this marvelous digital medium format camera and lenses and photograph the breathtaking landscape. It cannot get better than this!

If you are not interested in a Phase One and you just want to use your own camera gear, regardless of the type of your camera, brand, amount of pixels, etc. you are more than welcome to this workshop!

Strenuous rating: This tour requires good health and physical condition. Be prepared for daily hikes up to 30 minutes duration. These are simple, partly sandy and uneven trails. Some short stretches are downhill or uphill with rocks, but no rock climbing. You need to be able to carry your photography gear backpack and a water bottle. Sturdy shoes and walking sticks might be helpful, but not mandatory.

Learn & Photograph with Passion

•  Work in different lighting and with short/long exposure and aperture.
•  Learn about night photography techniques in the beautifully desolate surroundings of the Glen Canyon.
•  How to handle equipment with care on location.
•  Assistance with camera settings, the basics of composition, guide and help in general.
•  Hands-on lessons that can take your photography skills to the next level.
•  Review and constructive criticism/feedback of the images taken during the day.
•  Workflow in Phase One’s Capture One software and Adobe Lightroom.
•  Classroom sessions with various topics (qualities of light and how to manage it, when and how to use various kinds of filters, crafting panoramic photographs, introduction to Tilt & Shift lenses)

Itinerary

The exact itinerary will be kept flexible to account for the weather and current conditions. The itinerary below is an example of what you can expect.

1st Day – Sunrise helicopter flight over Glen Canyon followed by meet at Antelope Point Marina and get onto our houseboat, get settled, get to know each other, break the ice and give an introduction to our following days. We depart then to the Padre Bay to anchor at a beach and proceed with our low light photographing into sunset.
We will return to the houseboat for a gourmet dinner and a relaxing evening.

2nd – 4nd Day – Depending on the Lake Powell’s water level and weather conditions, the Anasazi Canyon, Cathedral Canyon, Confluence Canyon, Cottonwood Canyon, Dominguez Butte, Face Canyon, Gregory Butte, Gunsight Butte and Canyon, Labyrinth Canyon, Last Chance Canyon, Padre Bay with Cookie Jar & Weathering Pit Ridge, Rock Creek Canyon and other terrific locations will be on our schedule. We plan this adventure to arrive at the best spots at the best time of the day. We tend to be at some specific location with low light conditions (dusk and dawn) for photographing.
Each day will begin with coffee or tea, photographing, and returning to the houseboat for breakfast. We will have high tea each afternoon and gourmet dinners after our sunset photography.

The houseboat will be anchored each evening at some sand beach allowing us to engage in astrophotography in the night.

5th Day – Our last night will be spent near the Crossing of the Fathers with views of Boundary, Dinosaur, Gunsight, and Tower Buttes. Different compositions can be carved out in the early morning after which we will weigh anchor and return to Antelope Poijnt Marina. At the end of the day second opportunity to fly with the helicopter over  Glen Canyon area for sunset images.