Adventure

Join Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico for an adventure you won’t forget! Adventure sports photography requires a host of skills, including technical excellence with the camera, knowing your equipment, the sport and your goals inside and out. This workshop concentrates on creating – not just taking – unique adventure sports and lifestyle images.

May 1-4, 2024 | Location: Santa Fe, NM | Tuition: $1,995 | Deposit: 25% of Tuition

Deposit due upon registration, full tuition due 90 days before the workshop. 

Perfect your shot

The goal of this workshop is to help you start thinking more creatively in regards to setting up an adventure photo shoot, executing that shoot, and analyzing your images. We will be shooting assignments each day early in the morning or in late in the afternoon and evaluating our images via daily critiques.

Steeped in Action

Northern New Mexico has incredible locations in which to explore all of these sports and we will be shooting with elite athletes each day. The high desert mountain environment around Santa Fe has it all in terms of adventure sports. From rock climbing on steep basalt cliffs to mountain biking through aspens at 10,000 feet in the Sangre de Cristo mountains right above Santa Fe. 

What you’ll learn:

Topics We Will Cover

Adventure Photography
Lifestyle
Marketing
Lighting
Climbing Photography
motorcross photography
Trail running photography
bmx Photography

Workshop Itinerary

  • 12:00 PM: Check in / Introductions
  • 1:30 PM: Principles and lighting to adventure photography
  • 3:30 PM: On Location Shooting
  • On Location Shooting
  • Classroom Instructions
  • Image Critiques
  • On Location Shooting
  • On Location Shooting
  • Classroom Instructions
  • Image Critiques
  • On Location Shooting
  • On Location Shooting
  • Image Critique
  • Instructor Roundtable
  • Closing Reception

Meet your INSTRUCTORS

Michael Clark
Workshop Faculty

Michael Clark

Workshop Faculty

Catherine Aeppel

Workshop Faculty

Michael Clark

Michael is an internationally published adventure photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on numerous assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, mountain bikers, big-wave surfers, sky divers and many more other extreme sports athletes, often working in remote locations around the world.

Workshop Faculty

Catherine Aeppel

Catherine Aeppel is a Director, Photographer and Emmy-winning Cinematographer passionate about telling soulful stories. She is drawn to exploring humanity through her lens, and her cinematography breathes life and emotion into the stories she captures. She is an outdoor adventure, action sports and conservation photographer and filmmaker based in Hermosa Beach, California. From the beaches of Israel to the slot canyons of Utah, from remote islands in the Pacific to as far as Western Australia, Catherine’s explorations through the lens have taken her around the world. She thrives with a camera in hand — and lives the adventures she captures. When she’s not shooting, she’s playing in mountains, deserts and oceans far away from crowded cities and civilization.

Catherine won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Camerawork for her role as Director of Photography for Red Bull’s “One Shot.” Her work has been featured by National Geographic Adventure and her awards include first place in the GoPro Mountain Click Photo Competition at the 2018, 2016 & 2014 GoPro Mountain Games. Her short film, “Why I Ride,” was featured at Mountainfilm, and her short film, “My Desolate Eden,” won Best Cinematography during its premiere at No Man’s Land Film Festival. She has shot projects for clients including Red Bull, The North Face, Patagonia, Toyota, Bridgestone, Panasonic, Outside TV and GoPro.

Workshop Information

Workshop Highlights

Costs Included In Tuition

Not Included

Classroom and lodging

We will have a small number of rooms at a discounted rate of $300 a night at the The Hotel Santa Fe.  This is also where the workshop classroom is located and where the faculty and staff will be staying! We hope you’ll take advantage of this discount at the workshop hub! 

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