The Workshop Experience

Master new skills, explore spectacular locations and make new friends who share your passion as you learn together from experienced pros

By Jon Sienkiewicz

Published April 1, 2006

The day begins with a predawn breakfast surrounded by fellow photographers who are chatting quietly about lenses, plug-ins and graduated filters. You yawn and stretch, eager to greet daybreak and the magical light. It’s the first day of the photographic workshop you’ve been looking forward to all year, and you listen while Lonnie Brock, who with Roger Devore founded The Nature Workshops, describes the area that the group will visit for the sunrise shoot.

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