Extended Photo Trips

Midwest Photography Workshops provides photographic opportunities for students at a variety of locations across the United States and overseas.  These trips are designed for photographers of all skill levels, novice through advanced.  Our staff will direct you to the best locations and provide you with world class instruction and experience.  Select a location below to see where we can take you

We put the world in front of your lens!


2009-2010

Wild Spring Flowers & Waterfalls in the Great Smoky Mountains

April 25-30, 2010

Course # 310

The Great Smoky Mountain National Park stretches from Gatlinburg, Tennessee to Cherokee, North Carolina. Clear invigorating air, sparkling streams and virgin woodlands provide an unsurpassed background complete with waterfalls and wildflowers.

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Old Truck

 

Wild Spring Flowers in Tobermory, Ontario Canada

May 28-31, 2010

Course # 302

This workshop will be conducted in the beautiful Bruce Peninsula National Park in Ontario, Canada.This area is replete with photographic opportunities, which include natural caves, rocky beaches, gnarly Cyprus trees, dolomite limestone cliffs, lighthouses and much more..

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Nude Figure at the dunes
Sagatuck, Michigan

June 4-6, 2010

Course # 330

This two and one half day workshop will provide an excellent shooting experience. We will be on the Lake Michigan side of the state for two days of shooting in and around the Saugatuck sand dunes. This is one of the only workshops that have a model release availabe in 2009. We will have a small, intimate workshop with a student to instructor ratio of about 6-7 to 1 to maximize your workshop experience. Film or digital cameras are welcome. Video cameras are not welcome. Digital photographers should bring a laptop computer. Models are provided.

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Digital Travel and Landscape Photography in Tuscany, Italy

July 3-10, 2010

Course # 300

Bring your digital camera and laptop computer to scenic Tuscany. This is Wine County! Spend 7 days and 7 nights in a historic monastery. Enjoy gourmet food! Photograph vineyards, classic architecture, the flora and fauna of Italy. Learn about how to develop your personal style and connect with the landscape

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Tuscan Nude on Location
Tuscany
, Italy

July 10-17, 2010

Course # 301

This seven day seven-night workshop is conducted in historic Tuscany Italy. Stay in a recently restored 13th Century Monastery. Enjoy large spacious rooms and gourmet meals prepared with authentic Italian cuisine. This is wine country! Stroll and photograph in vineyards with grapes destined to make the best Chianti in the world. Your shooting experience will take you to abandoned marble quarries from the time of Caesar. We will spend a day photographing at the place where the red clay is mined to make the terra cotta roof tiles and pottery. It has a barren, lunar appearance with nothing that could detract from the beauty of the human form.

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Chicago Architecture

August 7 - 9, 2009

Course # 322

This three-day workshop will tickle several of your senses. The ability to view and marvel at the architecture will only be surpassed by the enjoyment of the images you will make of our nations third largest city. Chicago is renowned for their food and their architecture. Photograph Millennium Park at dawn. Then take a boat ride up and down the Chicago River to view buildings that change the world even today. Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Miles van der Rohe designed buildings here. Visit landmark buildings such as the Marquette Building, The Rookery and The Art Institute. Visit The Chicago Sun Times, NBC Plaza, Navy Pier and so much more. The food there is great!

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Fall Color in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains

2011

Course # 303

This six-day digital workshop will provide participants an opportunity to photograph spectacular grand vistas of Aspen trees ablaze with color, Cottonwoods luminescent with the golden alpine light of October.

 

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Toronto Architecture

October 23-25, 2009

Course #321

 

 

This three-day workshop will take you to Canada's largest city and arguably the world's most cosmopolitan City with over half of its residents coming from other countries. The blend of new and old archetecture will leave you dazzled. City Hall is a result of an international design competition. The building housing the Hockey Hall of Fame was once the main branch of the Bank of Montreal, but was not considered ornate enough. Photograph BCE Place, The CN Tower, Roy Thompson Hall and 205 Yonge Street located on the longest street in the world. If that is not enough, churches are plentiful and striking. By the way, the food and lodging accomodations are superb.

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2010


Florida Birds and Wildlife !!!

Birds and Alligators

Eastern Coastal Florida

January 4-8, 2010

Course # 304

 

This five-day workshop will put you in close proximity to wild alligators and wading birds that you can photograph with a 200-300mm lens. (Don't worry you will be safely on a boardwalk). 

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Desert Light Workshop

Page Arizona

April 3 - 10, 2010

Course # 305

 


The American West offers exotic vistas and terrain including canyons, mountains and rock formations. Photograph unspoiled views of some of the most beautiful scenery anywhere. Put your lens in front of the dynamic swirls curves and texture of rock formations eroded from eons of wind and water. Shoot ancient Native American rock drawings (petroglyphs) and even the night-lights of Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the high plains desert at its best!

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Wild Spring Flowers in Tobermory, Ontario Canada

May 28-31, 2010

Course # 302


This extended holiday weekend (Memorial Day) workshop will be conducted in the beautiful Bruce Peninsula National Park in Ontario, Canada.This area is replete with photographic opportunities, which include natural caves, rocky beaches, gnarly Cyprus trees, dolomite limestone cliffs, lighthouses and much more.

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Wildlife and Landscape

in Alaska

August 1-7, 2010

Course # 306

Photograph Grizzly bears fishing for Salmon. Moose, Dahl Sheep, Caribou, Hump Back Whales, and even Pacific Puffins will frolic in front of your lens. This 5-day workshop will blend the best of wildlife photography with the best of landscape photography. 

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Fall Color in Maine

October 3-9, 2010

Course # 307

When you think of Maine; think of Lobsters, Moose and Fall Color. This 6-day workshop will divide time among Baxter State Park, Arcadia National Park in Bar Harbor, and Jonesport, Maine.

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The Cowboy as Icon

Wild Horses in

Wyoming and Colorado

2011

Course # 308

 

 

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The New Mexico

Bird & Landscape Experience

2011

Course # 309

 

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Steamtown Pennsylvania

August 27-29, 2010

Course # 311

Visit one of the newest National Parks in the United States located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This is a working railroad yard with a restored roundhouse and new museum illuminating the romantic days of railroads .

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Nude Figure in the Environment - West

Course #331

 

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