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To REGISTER FOR ANY WORKSHOP PLEASE CALL CASTLE HILL at 508-349-7511

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Photographing Whales - Jessie Mechling

June 19, 20, 21
Wednesday  lecture
Thursday & Friday Whale Watches
Times will vary
3 Sessions
Off Site
$275 (includes 2 boat trips)

Castle Hill, in partnership with the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, invites nature photographers to explore Cape Cod for a two-day marine and coastal photography workshop.  The lifeblood of Cape Cod is the connection between our communities and the surrounding coastal and marine environments. The Cape’s magnificent light, unfettered landscapes and wondrous wildlife have inspired people and artists for generations.  In this two-day workshop, we will photograph whales, seals, and the coastal environment of Outer Cape Cod.  Participants will learn how to shoot unique landscape images and take quintessential Cape Cod photographs. Participants will also learn about local marine life, and learn techniques for capturing intimate and active portraits of these animals. The workshop includes two water-based whale watches , a hike to a local seal haul out (weather permitting), and a potential sunrise/sunset shoot at one of the Cape’s iconic lighthouses. 

Jesse Mechling is an award-winning photographer, naturalist, and educator specializing in travel and nature photography.  Jesse grew up on a farm along the Chesapeake Bay, while spending summers on Cape Cod. He has been photographing the landscape and wildlife of Cape Cod for more than fifteen years and, despite having traveled to over 30 countries and 43 states, regards Cape Cod as one of his favorite places to photograph, continually finding new destinations and subjects.  Jesse has exhibited his work in both group and solo shows throughout the country, and locally at art festivals and businesses.  His work has appeared in numerous calendars, Lonely Planet guidebooks, Nature Photographer Magazine, the New York Times, Condenet, Yahoo, Geoplaneta, and American Express.  He has led a summer photography workshop for the Cape Cod National Seashore since 2008 and currently works as the Director of Marine Education at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies.  He lives in Eastham.

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Fred and Ginger’s Greatest Hits
July 8 – 12th 
Monday – Friday
1-4 pm

Come relive the greatest dances and songs of Fred Astaire (1899-1987) and Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) from their RKO era as we watch and discuss, before-and-after-class, excerpts and full-length films such as the wonderful "The Gay Divorcee" (1934; M: Cole Porter), "Top Hat" (1935; M: Irving Berlin), "Follow the Fleet" (1936; M: Irving Berlin), "Swing Time" (1936; M: Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields), and "Shall We Dance" (1937; M: The Gershwins), among others.  Bring your memories and fresh eyes to these easy-going, anecdote-filled conversations and viewings!

Marc Strauss received his B.A. in Education from Hobart College, an M.F.A. in Dance Teaching and Choreography from Smith College, and Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman's University. He has studied the career and dance of George Balanchine, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, and The Nicholas Brothers. He teaches at Southeast Missouri State University. His most recent publications include the Looking at Contemporary Dance: A Guide for the Internet Age and the The Dance Experience: Insights into History, Culture and Creativity.

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Harnessing the Power of Natural Light: A Portraiture Photography Workshop   Jesse Freidin
August 5 – 8
Mon – Thursday
4 Sessions

$395

Lighting is the core of photography, and Summer on Cape Cod is flooded with a magical quality of light that attracts artists from around the world. Put your camera on ‘Manual,’ get out into the sunlight, and come learn from award-winning portrait photographer Jesse Freidin. This seminar will show you the simplicity and sheer power of natural lighting, how to harness and manipulate natural light for a variety of portraiture situations, and how to effectively light any situation without the need for flash or consistent bulb lighting. We’ll also learn to control light through proper usage of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. At the end of this seminar, your photographs will sing with even tones and exceptionally easy professional lighting techniques. Open to photographers Advanced Beginner to Professional.
Jesse Freidin is one of America’s leading fine art dog photographers, working exclusively with traditional analog film processes. He is dedicated to a return to realness, to craftsmanship, and to lifting up the household dog to its rightful place as contemporary muse.

Jesse Freidin’s photography is in over 60 private collections throughout the United States, and has been exhibited in more than 15 locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as New York, Los Angeles, Utah and Louisiana. His work has appeared in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Everyday with Rachel Ray, Modern Dog Magazine, Winq Magazine, Pink Magazine, DIY Doggie, The Sunday Times (UK), The Globe and Mail (Canada), East Village Boys, The Impossible Project Blog, and many more.  He was awarded the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Best Dog Photographer in the Bay Area for his fine-art pet portraiture, and is also the creator of the Doggie Gaga Project, an overnight media sensation linked online by Entertainment Weekly, MTV, TMZ, and The Sundance Channel, and featured on ABC’s Live! With Regis & Kelly.

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Liquid Emulsion – Alternative Process     Dana Dunham
July 8 – 12
Mon – Fri
1 – 4pm

$395

If you have a love for black and white photography and would like to learn the creative freedom of painting with liquid emulsion, then this class is for you. Suited for teens and adults of all ages, we’ll discuss the basics of film photography, film developing, basic darkroom techniques and learn how to create beautiful one-of-a-kind black and white images with liquid emulsion. This class is open to 35mm and medium format photographers who are interested in adding a unique characteristic to their photography.

Dana Dunham aspires to make a difference through the use of the photographic image.  He is committed to the traditional process of black-and-white film photography and the darkroom print. Dana is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and is currently living in Truro.

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Cyanotype on Fabric; handmade photographs Peter Madden
July 15 – 19
Mon – Fri
1 – 4pm

$395

Spend a fun, experimental week working with one of the earliest forms of photography.

Also known as “sun printing” or “blue printing”. Cyanotype is a magical, yet fairly simple, process with endless possibilities. Although the class will be geared towards working on inexpensive fabric, the process works equally as well on a wide variety of papers ranging from strong BFK to delicate handmade Japanese papers. We’ll work with large-scale photographic negatives, handmade negatives and actual objects to create prints that can range from pale cerulean to deep navy. The prints can be taken a step further and easily dyed a range earthy, warm browns.
Completed works stand well on their own or can be made into books, used as collage elements or sewn into pillows, quilts, garments or soft sculptures. No previous photography or darkroom experience is required.

A faculty member for more than 20 years at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Peter Madden has also conducted workshops and lectured at Massachusetts College of Art, The Center for the Book in New York and San Franciso, The Guild of Book Workers, RISD, Brandeis University, Wellesley College and Harvard University. His one-of-a-kind, handmade books and photographic work on stone, glass, wood, fabric and other unorthodox surfaces is featured in over 2 dozen publications including the last three revised editions of Laura Blacklow’s, New Dimensions in Photo Processes and most recently, Lark Books; Masters; Book Arts as well as hundreds of private collections. His work can be found at Bowdoin College, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Art and Harvard’s Houghton Library to name a few.

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Iphone Photography Workshop  Judy Rolfe
July 22 - 26
Mon – Friday
9 – 12

$395

Our venue for this class is the lower Cape which offers vivid possibilities  or iPhone capture.  From abstracts found in nature, street shooting and the impressive ebb and flow of dramatic tides in Provincetown and Truro harbors, the class will help you focus your lens on what you see around you.
We’ll begin by preparing you to capture images on your iPhone. Then we'll help you upload the apps you will need for the class:  SnapSeed,  Instragram, BracketMode and HDRPro, just to name a few. The apps should run approximately  $15.  We’ll review these different photography apps, so you have some familiarity with them before the shooting session.
Participants will need to bring a fully charged iPhone, a charger (as photos quickly use battery life), your Apple ID and lastly your enthusiasm for photography!

A former USA Today photo editor, Judy G. Rolfe has established herself as a well-known freelance photographer in the Washington, D.C. and Delmarva areas. In 1992, she decided to leave her steady career as a photo editor and attempt to make a living looking through a camera lens rather than a photo loupe. Judy received her first camera from her parents at age 14 and has been shooting pictures ever since. Her leap into freelance photography was the realization of a life-long dream. Her photography career is now a way of life, taking her on jobs all over the United States as well as unique places like China, Indonesia, Central and South America, the Balkans, and  Africa.

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Photoshop for Beginners    Dana Dunham
August 19 – 23
Mon – Fri
1 – 4pm

$395

Photoshop for Beginners is a great class for photographers who always wanted to learn more about their digital cameras. Much like the darkroom, Photoshop is designed to help photographers develop the digital images they really hope to envision. We will cover all the basic functions of Photoshop, giving the user a solid command for converting images to b&w, color correcting, cropping, resizing images for print and web, and making selections. Working with multiple images, we’ll learn how to composite images using cloning, blending, layers, and other tools. We will cover writing text on images, introducing opacity, and changing canvas sizes to create promotional materials. Learn to be a better digital photographer by learning the basics of the digital darkroom.

Dana Dunham aspires to make a difference through the use of the photographic image.  He is committed to the traditional process of black-and-white film photography and the darkroom print. Dana is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and is currently living in Truro.

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Art in the Digital Age: A Digital Nature Photography - Allen Rokach

Ooctober 17 Lecture

October 18, 19, 20

Friday, Saturday, Sunday

8 - 5pm (times will vary based on sunrise or sunset)

$600

Digital imaging has revolutionized photography and liberated photographers. In this innovative three-day digital photography workshop, master photographer Allen Rokach will guide participants to the limitless possibilities of digital nature, landscape, garden, and flower photography. This workshop is designed to help participants understand and apply the fundamental underpinnings of any fine photograph, including great light, proper and appropriate exposure, and filling the frame in a compelling manner.

Participants will explore the wonderful natural areas in and around Truro: landscapes, beaches, pastures, woodlands, flowers, birds, meadows, and ponds. Through lectures, field sessions, review sessions, and individual consultations, participants will receive in-depth instruction on everything from choosing the right lens for any situation and making the best use of light to creating exciting compositions and using software programs designed to enhance photographic images.

In addition to the technical aspects of image making, personal vision and creative growth are constants throughout the workshop. Rokach emphasizes the importance of color and composition and explores creative solutions to difficult working environments. Special attention will be given the Allen's unique approach in utilizing and sharing his innovative after capture techniques known as the "Rokach Effect.". 

Allen Rokach is a preeminent nature, garden, travel and location photographer whose 35-year career includes being a senior photographer for Southern Living magazine for 11 years. His assignments have ranged from extreme macrophotography done in-studio to on-location documentaries of the vast Amazon Rainforest.

Rokach has been widely published. He has authored twelve books on photography, art and travel and coauthored with Anne Millman 8 books and numerous articles on various aspects of photography, nature and travel. These include “Focus on Flowers: Discovery & Photographing Beauty in Gardens & Wild Places,” published by Abbeville Press and winner of the 1991 Book of the Year from the Garden Writers of America.  Rokach and Millman also coauthored “Focus on Travel: Creating Memorable Photographs of Journeys to New Places,” published by Abbeville Press in 1993, as well as a series of books for Amphoto called “The Center for Nature Photography Field Guide to Photographing:” The series included books on “Flowers,” “Landscapes,” “Trees,” “Birds,” “Gardens” and “Seasons.” In addition, they were frequent contributors to Popular Photography, Outdoor Photographer and have co-written for The New York Times and for all major photographic magazines. Mr. Rokach also sole photographer for such other important books as: “Gardens of the Heartland” (Abbeville Press) and “A Three Year Garden Journal” (Fulcrum Publishers) and Monet’s Giverny, (Abbeville Press).

Allen’s assignments have come from numerous prestigious travel, photography, specialty and general interest publications, resulting in his photographs of flowers, gardens and people from around the globe appearing in or on the covers of Southern Living, National Geographic, Audubon, Camera 35, Popular Photography, Coastal Living, Modern Photography, Natural History, Parade, Pinnacle, Fine Gardening, Garden Design, Horticulture, Outdoor Photographer, Garden, Southern Accents, Progressive Farmer, Landscape Architecture, Cooking Light, Science Digest, Garden Gate and The New York Times, among others.  Rokach and  Anne Millman's article on “Dams” in Science Digest won the Annual Engineering Journalism Award in 1983. Allen’s portfolio “Bursting with Color!” & “Forest Fire! Southern Accents, October 1996 & May 2001 won "Best Magazine Photography" from the Garden Writers of America.

In addition, Rokach has received many corporate commissions, including from PepsiCo, Massey-Ferguson, The Biltmore Estate, Chase Manhattan Bank, Bankers Trust, Becton Dickinson, Cunard, Air France, Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center, Netherlands Board of Tourism, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Royal Cruise Line, Travel Dynamics International, Beth Israel Medical Center and Edward Durrell Stone Jr. & Associates.

In 1988 Rokach founded The Center for Nature Photography, which sponsors instructional nature and garden photography workshops to such prime locations as Acadia National Park, in Maine; Crested Butte & Steamboat Springs, in Colorado; Arches and Canyon Lands National Park, in Utah; Monument Valley, in Arizona; the hill country of Texas; and Bosque del Apache Bird Sanctuary and White Sands National Monument, in New Mexico.

Rokach has been active as a photographic educator throughout his career. During his 12 years as the staff photographer and Director of Photography at The New York Botanical Garden, he initiated and coordinated the Certificate Program in Nature and Garden Photography. He also taught photography at numerous organizations including The New School for Social Research, The American Museum of Natural History, The International Center of Photography, The Biltmore Estate, The Chicago Botanic Garden, The Winterthur Museum & Gardens, Manhattan- ville Collge, The Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, The Clark Institute of Art,  and the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.   Allen also teaches a Master Class “Color in the Digital Age” at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Among his courses he leads groups on travel-oriented photo workshops to such varied locations as: West Africa, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Holland, India  as well as diverse places throughout the United States.

One-man shows of Rokach’s work have been mounted in New York at The Brooklyn Museum, The New York Academy of Sciences, Nikon House, Wave Hill, The New York Botanical Garden, and The Horticultural Society of New York, Chromatics in Nashville, the Alabama Council on the Arts, Mississippi University for Women & The BellSouth Gallery. Allen's photographs are in the following corporate collections: The Brooklyn Museum, The Jewish Museum,. Forbes, Inc., Western Electric, PepsiCo, I.B.M. Corporation, Yeshiva University Museum and the Studios of Key West. 

Allen has also has judged local, national and international photographic competitions.

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