It's all About the Dark!

Looking for a weird and interesting place to photograph under starry skies and in the safety of a group?  We've taken our always-sold-out ghost town workshop and deleted the moonlight!   If you've attended our full moon events here,  a completely different experience awaits you.

- Setting your gear up for success after dark.

- High ISO Photography

- Star trails.

- Stacking and tracking.

- High ISO Processing Workflows.

- Night Time HDR processing.

- Light Painting

- Composing for night : How to consider the sky.

Have fun! I don’t like boring lectures, and you probably don’t either. This workshop is designed to give you insight and tips that will help you develop your own "after dark" style. 

Gas pumps, old cars, rickety buildings, soda machines, creepy dolls, crashed aircraft, and a phone booth.

Located  43 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nelson Ghost Town is a privately owned, self contained collection of weirdness and wonder…and it’s growing.

The Spaniards called it El Dorado thanks to gold discovery which would eventually lead to one of Nevada's biggest mining booms of the time.  These days, the mines remain and what little gold left untouched inside them isn't worth the cost it would take to extract.

Over the last several years, the property has become a stop over for tourists, adventure seekers and has occasionally served as the backdrop to movie and television productions.   Thanks to the owner's self described "hoarding tendencies,"   unique and interesting subjects continue to get added to the grounds as he scours the southwest for anything and everything that he thinks belongs there. 

While they welcome visitors during daylight hours, try as you might to shoot after dark and they will run you off quicker than a flash flood.  The owners are rightfully protective of their jewel of the desert and as one of the signs says "You Better Not Be Here After Dark."  That is, unless you have their blessing.

Our three night workshop gives us access to everything that Nelson has to offer and is set on both sides of a rarely travelled, dead end road a few miles from the Colorado River.  

I am thrilled to once again welcome this workshop’s special guest and personal friend, Mr. Ken Lee.

Ken is an accomplished light painter and author who has been featured in National Geographic among others. Much of his work is instantly recognizable thanks to his unique style. Ken is also known for his incredible star trail compositions that incorporate cars, busses, buildings and landscapes from Joshua Tree to the Trona Pinnacles and beyond under moonlight and starlight.

See Ken's work on his website.