Springtime in the Smoky Mountains National Park Photo Workshop - Prolific wildflower blooms, lush green forests, flowering trees and rushing streams and waterfalls over moss covered boulders and rocks makes the Great Smoky Mountains a magical place in the spring. There's good reason the Smokies are called "Wildflower National Park!" This will be Joe's sixth year leading workshops in the park dedicated to the art and technique of creative nature photography.

Olympic National Park Photography Workshop - Olympic National Park is an incredible and diverse place. 95 percent of the park is designated wilderness – complete with massive old growth forests, over 60 miles of rugged coastline, featuring sea stacks and picturesque rocky beaches, and layers of jagged, glaciated mountain peaks that stretch as far as the eye can see and nowhere else in the contiguous US do these ecosystems come so close to one another making Olympic National Park a dream destination for a nature photographers.

Waterfalls & Rainforest's of the Columbia River Gorge - The Columbia River Gorge holds some of most beautiful and lush scenery in North America. Featuring the greenest temperate rainforests in the Pacific Northwest, as well as 115 officially-named waterfalls, the Gorge is an amazing destination to create extraordinary springtime images of rainforests, waterfalls, and streams. Over the course of this workshop, we have the possibility to photograph over a dozen picturesque waterfalls, jurassic-esque forest scenes - complete with mossy trees and four foot tall ferns, streams with moss-covered boulders, and beautiful views across the river and into the mountains. Hood River, Oregon will be our base camp for this adventure.