EASY Photo Editing Session Tutoring - By Appointment Only
$250
Tutoring Services: We meet at an agreed location and you learn how I quickly select my keeper images from thousands of downloads into Lightroom, edit the files and even do a little photoshop magic here and there. This session will help you make your workflow more efficient with better rendered images.
(This session is not a portrait retouching session....it will focus on landscape/wildlife/outdoor-style image editing)
The session will range between 2-3 hours depending on your learning speed. Register below and I will contact you for scheduling at your convenience.
2025 Photo Workshops
Winter in Yellowstone
January 4-9, 2025 - Group of 6
Session 1: January 4-9, 2025 - FULL
Session 2: January 11-16, 2025 - FULL
Yellowstone is certainly one national park that mystifies visitors and offers a wonderful and fascinating playground for the photographer. Even more so in winter. The only way into Yellowstone in the Winter is with a commercial snow coach or snowmobile tour company.....so the tourists are MINIMAL!! Plus, animals are much easier to spot and really stand out from their usual surroundings. Then add a layer of snow on their coats and you'll get images like no other.
This workshop will involve three days in our own private snow coach with our driver helping spot wildlife and steering us to amazing scenic areas as well. We will explore most of the mid to southern part of the park on the snow coach for the first 3 days and then spend a day and a half based on the north end in Gardiner, MT exploring the road through the Lamar Valley to Cooke City. We will also take some time to play in the Mammoth Springs area.
Tetons in the Winter
Darien & Jekyll Island, Ga
Darien & Jekyll Island, Ga
January 31-February 4, 2025
FULL
The Tetons are magical in the Winter. A blanket of snow makes everything stunningly different. Join us for 5 days in Grand Teton National Park where we will not only explore the park via private vehicle looking for all sorts of wildlife and landscape views, we will also visit a working ranch for real western photography and enjoy a sleigh ride outing to get up close and personal to hundreds of elk!
Darien & Jekyll Island, Ga
Darien & Jekyll Island, Ga
Darien & Jekyll Island, Ga
March 13-16, 2025
3 spots left
Jekyll Island will be our base for these photo-filled days. Famous Driftwood Beach will definitely be one of our targets as well as other interesting subjects on the island itself. But we will also take a fun jaunt over to Darien, Georgia to photograph the famous shrimp boats along the river as well.
White Sands & Saguaros, NM & AZ
White Sands & Saguaros, NM & AZ
White Sands & Saguaros, NM & AZ
April 28 - May 2, 2025
2 spots left
Although the southern Southwest of the US is desert country, it is amazingly photogenic. In this area resides 2 lesser-known national parks -- White Sands and Saguaro National Parks.
The giant saguaros are the universal symbol of the American west and are found only in a small portion of the United States, surrounding the Tucson, AZ area. These massive cacti will astound you with their sheer prevalance and stature in this national park.
Dakotas Big Badlands Tour
White Sands & Saguaros, NM & AZ
White Sands & Saguaros, NM & AZ
May 9 - 14, 2025
Many people never get the chance to visit North and South Dakota, but two stunningly beautiful national parks await the photographer.....Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Badlands National Park. These two parts of the Dakotas provide endless views of the famous badlands, views overlooking the Little Missouri River, canyons, spires, hoodoos and wild horses. The colors that stretch through these areas are astounding and provide so much variety for the landscape photographer.
Tennessee Waterfall Wonders
White Sands & Saguaros, NM & AZ
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins
May 18-21, 2025
2 spots left
What is it about people and waterfalls? Why do we love them so much? It's just water falling over some rocks....and yet we are just mesmerized with them. But then photographers take the obsession to whole DIFFERENT level. If you think you've photographed some amazing waterfalls in the past, here's your challenge to think again! This trip is one of Natural Connections' shorter offerings, but it is PACKED with waterfall energy and the opportunity for truly stunning images. The falls featured on this trip are larger and more powerful than most photographers ever get to experience.
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins
June 22-25 2025
FULL
(waitlist available)
This is one fantastic experience. You will photograph coastal brown bears foraging in the meadows, clamming on the tidal flats at low tide and possibly mother bears nursing their new babies. You will be the closest you have ever been to a bear while still being safe. Add to that an excursion to photograph horned puffins and you have one amazing experience. Stunning images await these workshop participants.
Ropin' & Rodeo
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins
Ropin' & Rodeo
August 29, 2025
If you've never been to a rodeo, it is definitely something to do in your lifetime.
If you've never been to a rodeo with a CAMERA, you should definitely join us August 29th for an exciting evening of action and honing in on how to use shutter speed to get exactly the shot you want.
Oregon Coast
Outer Banks of North Carolina with Night Skies
Outer Banks of North Carolina with Night Skies
September 6-11, 2025
A true bucket-list item for so many photographers, the coast of Oregon is simply stunning. With coastal mountains, silky sand dunes, rough and rocky shorelines, hidden tide pools, prominent light houses, cascading rivers and majestic sea stacks dotting the coastal landscape, this part of the country is a photographer's dream. Very few places impart such a sense of place like the Oregon coast.
Outer Banks of North Carolina with Night Skies
Outer Banks of North Carolina with Night Skies
Outer Banks of North Carolina with Night Skies
September 20 - 23, 2025
From ocean sunrises, historic lighthouses, rolling dunes, charming coastal villas and sunsets on the sound....and if we're lucky we will even get to photograph marsh birds, wild horses and black bears...oh my! We will even take advantage of any clear night skies and shoot some milky way photography as well! You will leave this workshop with a HUGE range of photo subjects!
New River Gorge, WV
Outer Banks of North Carolina with Night Skies
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
October 20-23, 2025
(back to back with Smokies)
FULL
Take this chance to experience America's newest National Park. Lodged in an amazingly beautiful part of West Virginia, this place is fantastic for photography. A variety of photo opportunities await!
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
October 26-28, 2025
(back to back with New River Gorge)
Fall is the absolute BEST time to visit this national park.
Join us for a few days of fabulous fall color, tumbling mountain streams, and those famous, gorgeous smoky mountain vistas.
Cypress Pond in the Fall
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Death Valley National Park
November 1-2, 2025
(Pending verifcation there was not too much damage from Hurricane Helene....stay tuned)
Nestled on 1600 acres in the middle of a lesser known area of Georgia sits a beautiful 400-acre mill pond inhabited by pretty spectactular cypress trees. Peace, serenity and amazing photos await the landscape photographer in this lesser known state park.
Death Valley National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Death Valley National Park
November 16-20, 2025
Death Valley is the HOTTEST, the DRIEST and the LOWEST place in the National Park System. But do not mistake that to mean that is isn't one of the most BEAUTIFUL of the national parks. Death Valley is frequently referred to as The Land of Extremes, but don't let the name fool you. From snow covered peaks in the distance to around 300 feet BELOW sea level, this place is a photographer's paradise.
Old Car City, White, GA
Old Car City, White, GA
Old Car City, White, GA
November 8, 2025
Join us for macro and close-up photography in one of the most photo-rich environments in Georgia. Rust, color, age and weathering shot with fall colors. You could spend DAYS here and never see it all!
Berry College Beauty
Old Car City, White, GA
Old Car City, White, GA
November 9, 2025
Berry College, a private liberal arts institution nestled on 26,000 acres outside of Rome, Georgia is not just an educational institution, but also an education for the senses. The Berry campus is simply a sight to see. From the photogenic cut stone complex built by Henry Ford in the 1920’s, to the college’s mountain campus, the old mill waterwheel and more, there is so much to photograph. Join Ledra as she leads you through her alma mater. A lot has changed over the years since she graduated, but the things that make Berry a breathtakingly beautiful campus are still there for all to see.
British Columbia Eagles
Old Car City, White, GA
British Columbia Eagles
December 2-5, 2025
Just east of Vancouver, resides a small town that is home to the world’s largest concentrated winter eagle gathering. The raptors are drawn to the area by the spawning salmon, attracting thousands of wintering bald
eagles to the general area. In December they take their pick of the less energetic fish as they are finishing their life cycle.
Yellowstone in Winter
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins of Alaska
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins of Alaska
January 10-15, 2026
Yellowstone is certainly one national park that mystifies visitors and offers a wonderful and fascinating playground for the photographer. Even more so in winter. The only way into Yellowstone in the Winter is with a commercial snow coach or snowmobile tour company.....so the tourists are MINIMAL!! Plus, animals are much easier to spot and really stand out from their usual surroundings. Then add a layer of snow on their coats and you'll get images like no other.
This workshop will involve three days in our own private snow coach with our driver helping spot wildlife and steering us to amazing scenic areas as well. We will explore most of the mid to southern part of the park on the snow coach for the first 3 days and then spend a day and a half based on the north end in Gardiner, MT exploring the road through the Lamar Valley to Cooke City. We will also take some time to play in the Mammoth Springs area.
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins of Alaska
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins of Alaska
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins of Alaska
July 20-23, 2026
3 spots left
This is one fantastic experience. You will photograph coastal brown bears foraging in the meadows, clamming on the tidal flats at low tide and possibly mother bears nursing their new babies. You will be the closest you have ever been to a bear while still being safe. Add to that an excursion to photograph horned puffins and you have one amaing experience. Stunning images await these workshop participants.
Please fill out the registration form to indicate your interest. There is no payment at this time. A deposit will be due in early 2025. This is not a hard committment right now. You will be asked to commit with the deposit in early 2025.
Glacier NP & MT Ghost Towns
Coastal Brown Bears & Puffins of Alaska
Glacier NP & MT Ghost Towns
August 21-26, 2026
2 spots left
If you haven't had the great fortune of shooting in one of the most picturesque national parks in the country, then this is the workshop for you!! Nestled in the northwestern corner of Montana, this park can be summed up in two simple words - AWE INSPIRING. Nowhere have we found such a stunning example of our country's magnificent beauty. Join Ledra as she guides you through one of her favorite shooting locations in the Western United States.
Then add the interest and history of photographing 4 of the best ghost towns Montana has to offer, and driving through the beauty of the surrounding countryside as you do so, and this truly becomes a 'Taste of Montana'.