LÚZ GALLERY | for the Photographic Arts - Garden Photography Workshop

MASTER SESSION / SPRING 2010

Garden Photography with Allan Mandell

Fee: $295
Dates: Saturday June 5 + Sunday June 6, 2010
Times: to be confirmed, closer to dates.

Location: Luz Studio + On-location
Course Level: L2 + (skill level details)
Maximum 6 participants. * 3 spaces left

Join Allan for a weekend exploration of why Victoria is known as the ‘City of Gardens’. We will immerse ourselves in a horticultural treasure trove of lush private gardens and natural spaces while practicing Allan’s method for creating compositions. Participants are expected to be comfortable using their camera gear set on manual mode and be open to looking both ways – inside themselves as well as into the beauty of the garden.

The workshop will have participants working in the gardens, and in the classroom for critiques & feedback.

Day 1: You will be working in a private Japanese garden, on the peninsula, followed by a lesson on macro-techiniques in Doyle and Bond's beautiful greenhouse.

Day 2: Photograph in a private garden in the Uplands, followed by a naturalistic shoot in the Upland Park. The day will end with a review and critique of participants images from the weekend.

WHAT TO BRING:

A DSLR or film SLR camera that has manual controls, lenses and tripod. Please dress comfortably for working outside. If you have a Macro lens, please bring that as well, or enquire with us about rentals.

A laptop, is optional (for the 2nd day).

ALLAN MANDELL, is one of the most admired garden photographers on the west coast of Canada and the USA. He approaches his work with an artist’s sensibility, which for him means paying close attention to his experience in the garden and letting that feeling become the subject of his compositions. Shooting gardens in North America, Europe and Asia, his work has appeared on the covers and in the pages of leading garden publications internationally for the past seventeen years. He is the sole photographer of six books including Artists in Their Gardens, Garden Retreats, and Naturalistic Gardening, and he is a contributing photographer to over sixty books.www.gardenphotogapher.com

“A garden is a setting for what can be an intensely personal aesthetic and even spiritual experience, in fact this is the result of a well-designed garden. Can this be faithfully represented in an image? This is the goal of learning to see as a garden photographer.”