Date and Time 12:00 Monday 21st – 07:30 Sunday 27th October 2024
Duration Six Nights
Price £1,995 (£200 deposit, £1,795 balance to be paid by the 21st July 2024. If booking after the 21st July 2024, full amount is payable)
Workshop Leader Melvin Nicholson
Workshop Assistant/Driver Chris Frost
Workshop Attendees 8
Meeting Place 12:00 Car Rental Offices Top Floor Marco Polo Airport Venice
Exertion Level Easy / Medium / Hard – All locations within half a mile from the car, some much closer. Some slippery rocks near waterfalls and uneven rocky paths including the odd uphill section present. A good level of fitness and mobility is required.
Slovenia is an awe-inspiring country that offers huge diversity in the scenery on offer and the subjects that we aim to photograph. It is where mountains tower at almost 9,500ft over some of the most impressive and stunning scenery in Europe. The jagged peaks, alpine forests, wooden huts and the gorgeous lakes that offer some amazing reflections of the mountains that dominate the region. Add to that the stunning changing of the colours as autumn takes hold and the misty mornings that are typical at this time of the year means that you have a superb opportunity to experience five and a half fantastic days of landscape photography.
This seven day, six night landscape photography workshop will provide you with wonderful opportunities to capture and create you own images with guidance and tuition from Melvin Nicholson and Chris Frost if required. Our accommodation consists of a wonderfully located guesthouse in Lesce, the neighbouring town to Bled. It is perfectly positioned to reduce the amount of time spent driving to many of the most popular locations, leaving more time for your photography.
During your time, we will work closely to ensure that you receive whatever assistance you need to have the experience of a lifetime. We will offer all advice needed regarding the technical elements of how to use your camera through to how to compose dynamic and exciting images. Filters are an integral part of landscape photography and on our workshops and we will cover this extensively.
Here is a detailed itinerary outlining our schedule. While the itinerary looks fixed, it is really only an indication of the locations we will be visiting and the decision to alter our plans depending on the weather and light will be taken if needed.
Day 1– Monday 21st October 2024 Marco Polo Airport Venice – Lesce We will collect the workshop participants at Marco Polo Airport in Venice on Monday at 12:00. Once everybody is collected, we shall head to our guesthouse in Lesce, before capturing sunset at the nearby iconic Lake Bled. The evening will be spent getting to know each other over good food in a local restaurant.
Day 2 to Day 6 – Tuesday22nd – Saturday 26th October 2024 There is no fixed itinerary on this workshop as we aim to match up the best photography locations with the weather predicted.
You can see a list of the locations on offer in the ‘Details’ tab above.
We aim to be out on location shooting sunrises every morning, ensuring that we are in position to capture the best subjects pre-dawn. Breakfast will either be taken in the guesthouse after sunrise or where required, on the road in the form of a packed breakfast courtesy of the guesthouse. We will be out shooting sunsets before heading back to the guesthouse to relax before eating out in local restaurants.
Day 7 – Sunday 27th October 2024 Marco Polo Airport, Venice Early check out at the guesthouse this morning to arrive at Marco Polo Airport for 07:30 followed by the flight home to reflect on what will be an amazing week’s photography. Having spent three months in Slovenia October 2020 – December 2020, take it from me when I say, that Slovenia will have you leave a piece of your heart somewhere in the country and experiences like that takes some beating. I hope you can join me.
We will collect all the workshop participants from Marco Polo Airport, Venice on Monday 21st October 2024 at 12:00
Melvin Nicholson
Melvin Nicholson is the founder of Landscape Locations and a UK based professional photographer.
Melvin has been a full time photographer since 2014 and has been running photography workshops, tours and courses both in the UK and internationally since he started out.
In Melvin’s own words “I love what I do because it allows me to indulge in the very thing that fulfils my life beyond imagination. And I feel lucky to be able to share my passion, enthusiasm and knowledge with others.
As a relative latecomer to the world of photography, my eyes were initially opened to the captivating world of photography whilst honeymooning in Japan, before later stumbling into landscape photography in 2012 – a genre I instantly fell in love with appreciating not only its beauty, drama, and variety but the many challenges it presents. My initial passion for capturing wild and rugged seascapes was driven from a lifetime living just a stone’s throw from Dorset’s stunning Jurassic coastline but over recent years, this yearning for raging storm seas has been contrasted and balanced by the quiet calling of Dorset’s hidden woodlands. Wild mornings dodging raging seas now compete with the lure of leisurely ambles through mist shrouded woods, dodging nothing but brambles and the occasional startled deer.
I specialise in atmospheric images of the South West’s ever-changing coastline and intimate treescape scenes of mother nature at her finest, combining floral displays, spectacular conditions and grand woodlands, My unique imagery was recognised in 2020, winning the UK Landscape Photographer of the Year award and placing runner-up in the Wildflowers category of the International Garden Photographer of the Year.
Having arrived too late for the film era, I have always shot digitally and appreciate the flexibility and opportunities it presents. With the trusty Nikon in hand, there is equal enjoyment gained from, and importance placed on all stages of the photography journey from scouting, visualization, and image capture through to post-processing, an element I believe is often key in realising my vision.
Six nights in this beautiful guesthouse. Double rooms with no single occupancy fees. Breakfast included.
Our mode of transport for this workshop will be a modern, comfortable nine seat minibus and a decent size car. This will ensure that there is plenty of space for us all including luggage, clothing, and camera equipment.
Included
Six nights accommodation (double rooms en-suite, single occupancy)
Breakfast
Dedicated 1-2-1 photography tuition from Melvin Nicholson & Chris Frost
Collection and drop off at Marco Polo Airport, Venice
Transport during the workshop in a modern, comfortable nine seater minibus and a decent size car
All toll road charges and park entry fees included
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