Jeff Schultz Alaska Bears, Glaciers and Fall Colors Photography Workshop

Arrive on your own to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) Anchorage, AK. Meet at 4:00 pm for a meet and greet at the hotel, orientation for the trip and a pre-workshop classroom instruction on wildlife and landscape photography followed by dinner.

Breakfast at hotel. Drive to the nearby Chugach Mountains above Anchorage where you'll find fall color landscapes and moose during the fall rut. After lunch, drive North along the Glenn Highway stopping often for fall landscapes, potential wildlife and whatever interests the group, including views of the Matanuska Glacier surrounded by fall color. Arrive early evening at the lodge nestled between the Talkeetna and Chugach Mountain ranges in private, well appointed cabins. The evening is spent with a second classroom workshop on Northern Lights and Night-Sky photography and slide show. Evening photography in the area. There is a potential of seeing the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) —weather & solar activity permitting.

Day 3 begins with an early-risers (6:00 am for those who want to) sunrise fall colors landscape photo shoot a short drive from the lodge, followed by breakfast. By noon you're off to photograph more fall landscapes along the Glenn Highway and the Hatcher Pass area for stream and mountain landscape photos. A picnic lunch will be had along the way at a convenient time. In the evening, we will drive to new landscape areas. More potential of seeing and photographing the Northern Lights and night sky. Stay in a well-appointed bed and breakfast home in the Palmer area this night and dine at a local restaurant.

After an early breakfast at the B&B, drive 20 minutes and take off in helicopters for a 15-minute flight directly over a 16-mile (25 km) glacier and on to the ice-berg choked shores of a glacier formed lake with the snow-capped Chugach mountains as a background. If conditions permit, the doors of the helicopter will be off for the flight in for better aerial images. After landing, the helicopters will depart and you'll have the area to ourselves for 5 hours of Glacier, lake and iceberg landscape and fall color photography. Enjoy a picnic lunch before you're picked up in the early afternoon. Return to Anchorage for dinner with a photo viewing session of participant’s images.

Each of the next two days, after a hearty breakfast, you'll take to either the small boats with 2 photographers and guide per boat, or take a pontoon boat with the whole group to photograph bears in various locations. At any time during the trip, you are welcome to choose another activity, other than photographing bears, of your choice. You can take a guide and go kayaking, hiking or salmon and trout fishing. As a group you may do a landscape photography outing or hike at some point. Lunch and dinner at the lodge. The last two nights include a critique session as well as a teaching session on post-processing in Lightroom and workflow.

After a hearty breakfast, you'll take to either the small boats with 2 photographers and guide per boat, or take a pontoon boat with the whole group to photograph bears in various locations. At any time during the trip, you are welcome to choose another activity, other than photographing bears, of your choice. You can take a guide and go kayaking, hiking or salmon and trout fishing. As a group you may do a landscape photography outing or hike at some point. Lunch and dinner at the lodge. Another critique session as well as a teaching session on post-processing in Lightroom and workflow.

Breakfast at the lodge. Leave on float plane for Anchorage in morning. Arrive back at Lake Hood Seaplane base approximately 12 noon. Transfer available to the airport or your hotel.