Our intensive one-day seminar teaches the most important things we have learned since becoming full-time professional nature photographers in the early eighties. We have shot more than two million nature photographs with film and digital cameras and switched to all digital in 2003. This seminar is a blend of film and digital information. Most of the topics we cover such as composition, lenses, closeups, and light are equally appropriate for both film and digital.

This seminar emphasizes how to photograph birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, ferns, wildflowers, landscapes, reflections, frost, dew, fog, spider webs, lichens, waterfalls, and other subjects found in nature. All instruction is geared for those who wish to learn how to shoot outstanding nature photographs in the wild. Unlike many seminars, this program stresses how to shoot the best possible image in the camera, not how to "fix" things later with software.

Our seminar is carefully designed to show you how to shoot superb nature photographs. Solving the problems encountered by nature photographers in the field will be highlighted throughout the day. We project more than 600 images to illustrate key points you must know, using real nature subjects from various locations around the world.

Our expertise is teaching how to shoot terrific images shot after shot while in the field. We cover our working methods in detail such as back-button focusing, manual metering, using the RGB histogram for perfect exposures, fill-flash, and stress techniques for creating critically sharp images.

Since we cover a lot of material and move quickly from topic to topic, we recommend bringing a tape recorder to the seminar. To get the most out of our seminar, it's crucial to spend your time studying the instructional and inspiring projected images so you won't miss any of the key points they reveal.

To help you learn everything you need to know, you'll receive detailed seminar notes (which have been fully revised for digital photography) at the door covering all of the instructional programs presented. These written notes include all the key points made in the seminar so you won't have to write them down plus many other useful tips.

We're warm and friendly people who enjoy speaking with our participants and sharing our nature photography experiences at close range. Therefore, we prefer small seminar groups of 150 or less so we can easily interact with you and share our ideas. Everyone is close to us as we stand on each side of the screen pointing out important details in the projected images. This enables us to create an atmosphere that is similar to being invited into our living room for a day of heart to heart discussion about what works and what doesn't work in the quest to make quality nature photographs. We hope you can join us! It's a rewarding day!