I live on the Olympic Peninsula and love it. Some of my best memories come from backpacking, exploring, and photographing in Olympic National Park. This May, I am leading a workshop in one of the areas I know best. I’ve actually lost track of the number of times I have led trips to the Olympic National Park.

Mid-May is traditionally the best time of the year for greens in the rainforest, and there are good sunsets on the coast. For this reason, we will spend the bulk of our time based in Forks, visiting the rainforests, coastal beaches, Lake Crescent, and the Sol Duc area. It can also be a time of rain, so be prepared!

Based in Forks, we will visit places like Rialto, Ruby, and Second Beach, the Hoh rainforest, Sol Duc Falls, Quinault, and Lake Crescent.

Our itinerary will be weather-dependent. With any luck, we will get a bit of rain so that the rainforest will look like… well… a rainforest. Clouds and unsettled weather can enhance sunsets on the coast, so we’ll be hoping for a bit of both.

In the field, I will emphasise proper technique and craftsmanship behind the camera. We’ll work on getting better close-ups and improving your landscape photography, including choosing foregrounds, using hyperfocal focusing and digital focus stacking, and knowing when to use graduated neutral density filters or digital techniques to capture the entire range of light in a scene.

And I’ll be pushing you to look at the world in different ways, try something you’ve not tried before, like long exposures of surf using ND filters or shooting with a specific purpose or digital darkroom process in mind.

Part of this workshop will be time devoted to critiques and photographic techniques. I will also offer demonstrations in Photoshop and Lightroom and cover High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, stitched panoramas, and focus blending as part of learning to see the possibilities the world of digital photography offers.

Join a small group of photographers (limited to 7) in the magnificent Olympic National Park. Photograph streams lined with mossy rocks, waterfalls, majestic rainforests, stunning beaches and more.