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A photography workshop can, and should be, a very special learning experience. Under the right circumstances, a good workshop can have a measurable, positive, impact on your shooting. Under the wrong conditions, it can be frustrating and fruitless.

Workshops should be small and intimate. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to create a valuable learning environment in groups larger than 7 or 8 students per instructor. To paraphrase a quote from Galen Rowell; “if your group has 20 people in it, it’s a seminar not a workshop.” Some of the best workshop learning opportunities come from interactions between the attendees. In the short time that you have together, you just cannot foster that environment with a large group.

The distractions of daily life often make it difficult to let our creativity shine. Often, we try to include photography into our vacation time. Planning the trip requires time and effort. The details of the trip become so tedious that it becomes very difficult to release your creative mind to the task of making images. Those details, or left-brain thinking, cloud our creative nature. The result is, often, a memory card full of uninspired images.

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