Lake Effect Photographic Adventures Presents:

SW Michigan ~ Tulips, Lighthouse and Wildflowers Photography Workshop
Thursday night April 30 - Sunday, May 3, 2009
Holland and PJ Hoffmaster State Parks, Aman Park in Grand Rapids, and Lighthouses at Holland, Muskegon, and Grand Haven, Michigan
Ottawa County, Michigan
Photography Tour with Will Clay, Fred Drury and Hank Erdmann

$685.00 Single Occupancy / $575.00 Double Occupancy

Join Hank Fred & Will along the Lake Michigan shore in the Holland area of the lowewr peninsula of Michigan, just a three to four hours from Chicago. We'll enjoy numerous great photographic opportunities sites, including Holland and PJ Hoffmaster State Parks, Aman Park in Grand Rapids, and Lighthouses at Holland, Muskegon, and Grand Haven, Michigan. The exact sites will depend on a conditions per our scouting trip a day or two before to insure you get the best photo opportunities.

Meals are not included in this event but we usually take meals as a group. Breakfast is after our sunrise/morning shoot. We skip lunch because breakast is usually later in the morning. We do recommend bringing snacks along for those in between meal times. We head out for dinners early, so we can be shooting at sunset. Due to the area's location on the western edge of a time zone (eastern time zone), we go to dinner early as by the time we end up after sunset, many restaurants are closed. Participant's do not have to attend meals with the group but would miss much of the fun and fellowship of a workshop at meal times

Our workshops are in-field instructional workshops. We believe the best way to show folks how to make better images is to show them in camera, on site, in the field with hands-on instruction. Lectures are fine by themselves but instruction in the field will have you making better images much faster, while working with your own equipment. Our instructors are with you in the field, providing demos, hands-on help, compositional and technical advice and often lending their own gear for you to try in the field.

The workshop will start with an orientation on Thursday evening at 8pm. Those arriving early will head for dinner together. Friday, Saturday and Sunday will start with sunrise shoots. Middays, depending on the light avialable, we'll photograph or do a critique at the hotel. Saturday night, we host a social evening with image show and tells. The workshop ends on Sunday after check out in the hotel.