Photography is an adventure!!  From the first image you take until the last, photography is a reward that only becomes sweeter and more personal.  Each image, each photo trip, each adventure enhances the soul and improves your relationship with nature and world around you.  As you can tell, I love nature photography.  My life wouldn't be the same if I couldn't get out into nature and create images - if I couldn't witness life in all its many forms struggling for survival and renewal. 

Learning photography can be a fulfilling quest, a journey that only improves and adds to your overall experience.  You can't become a worse photographer - you can only get better, more polished and refined with each roll of film or full flash card.  The digital seminars, field workshops, 1 Day Safaris, One-on-One Safaris, and multiple day safaris are designed to instruct you in the advanced skills of nature photography and teach you, through my experience, how to shoot like a professional.

2008 Digital Photo Seminars

The Seminars are being held at my studio and are limited to 10 participants.  An audio/visual presentation will show examples of the skills being taught throughout the Seminar.  It is an opportunity to not only learn in a classroom setting, but to ask questions, bring photos for critique, and see professionally shot images that exemplify the best in nature photography.

The cost is $50 per person and includes a 35 page seminar handout.  You must pre-register for the seminars as size is limited.  This can be done by calling me at 435-753-3235  or e-mailing me at brentrpaull@hotmail.com. 


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2008 Field Workshops

There is no better way to learn photography than to have your composition, exposure, and creative ideas tweaked and improved in the field while shooting by a professional photographer.  The workshop brings two dimensional classroom ideas into three dimensional reality.  Participants will be able to use my Nikon D2X camera and Nikon 500mm F4 Silent Wave Motor Lens for some of their photography, so make sure and bring at least a 2gig Compact Flashcard, or more..

The workshops begin at 7am and run through 12pm.  The cost is $75 per person.  You need to bring your camera equipment, tripod, bug repellant, layered clothing, water and a lunch. We meet near the automatic gate into the refuge.  Take the Forest Street off ramp from I-15, turn west, and continue about 15 miles west (dirt road) to the refuge entrance.

BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 from 7am to Noon at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge outside Brigham City.

WILDFLOWER and SCENIC PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Friday, July 11th, 2008 from 7am to Noon in Logan Canyon.

2008 One-Day Photo Safaris

Unlike Field Workshops, the Safaris are unique photographic events to Yellowstone, the Grand Teton and Jackson Hole, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Zion National Park areas.  One Day Safaris are more regional trips and designed to provide a dawn-to-dusk photographic experience.  The cost is $165 per person.   The currently scheduled 1 Day Safaris include:

WILDLIFE SAFARIS
Sunday, May 25th, 2008 in Yellowstone National Park.  6:30am to Sunset.
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 in Yellowstone National Park.  7am to Sunset.

LANDSCAPE SAFARIS
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 in the Jackson Hole / Grand Teton NP Areas
Saturday, November 8th, 2008 in the Southern Utah - Zion National Park area


These safaris are for dedicated photographers only.  The shooting day starts by meeting near the West Yellowstone Entrance to Yellowstone (or just outside Jackson, Wyoming near the Elk Refuge) around sunrise so we can put ourselves in the best position to capture images in morning light.  With only a break for lunch, we shoot all day through the last rays of sunset.  You will spend the day shooting side-by-side with me and learn not only professional photography techniques first-hand, but also photography woodcraft and animal behavior.  I would expect to shoot many animal babies, but especially baby bison.  In the past I have photographed coyote dens, black bears, river otters, badgers, elk, gray wolves, and many others at this time of the year.  If this sounds like the type of adventure that would not only improve your photography but add a thrill to your life, like it does to mine, book a safari!

You must pre-register for the safaris as size is limited.  This can be done by e-mailing me at brentrpaull@hotmail.com. 

One-on-One Custom Safaris

This is a unique experience.  You shoot with me for the entire day, or for multiple days depending on the booking.  There are no other clients to cater to, no other demands on my time but to immerse you in photography.  This kind of quality time allows me to cover all the aspects of professional nature photography - from knowing how to dress, understanding animal craft, timing meals and breaks to maximize the quality of the photography experience, composition, to all other aspects of professional nature photography.  The cost is relative to the location with multiple day shoots available at a discount.

These bookings are subject to availability.  You can e-mail me for more information at brentrpaull@hotmail.com. 

2009 New Safari Locations

New Safaris will include:

(1) Northern Harbor Seals and Shore Birds (late January - Southern California)  
(2) Northern Elephant Seals, Sea Otters, and wintering Monarch Butterflies (February - California Coast)
(3) Migratory Ducks, Geese, and Cranes  (January - New Mexico)