This is a unique opportunity for 11 people to study photography in the unusual landscape of Death Valley National Park, located in the Mojave Desert in California. I’ve travelled extensively in this region for over a decade, and I know many interesting locations for photography.

Death Valley National Park contains the lowest point in the country at 282 feet below sea level, from which you can also see the nations largest vertical rise at over 11,000 feet. Death Valley offers a wide choice of locations for photography including sand dunes, salt flats, borax hills, canyons, abandoned mines, ghost towns, an extinct volcano and vast dry lake beds. Mountains surround the valley, and the sense of vast space and solitude is immense.

Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on the morning of February 27, our group will drive in 3 SUVs to the Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley where we will spend the next 6 nights. Each day we will explore the national park and create photographs at various times of day and evening. Depending on the weather, we might rest in the afternoons or relax by the hotel’s swimming pool, which is fed by a natural hot spring.

 

A typical day will consist of photographing at sunrise, eating breakfast, taking a mild canyon hike, having lunch, resting or swimming, photographing at sunset and returning to Furnace Creek for a relaxing dinner. Although I will take you to numerous locations I have seen over the years, the daily itinerary will be modified by weather conditions and by the specific interests of the participants. On location I will provide instruction; at the hotel we will review photographs made during the day.