Loose in the Palouse • June 2027

The Amazing Palouse!

Rolling Wheatfields, Red Barns & Grain Elevators | June 2027

If you have never heard of the breathtaking Palouse region of Eastern Washington, it might be because it is one of the best kept secrets. If you have imagined driving through the gorgeous countryside of Tuscany in Italy, this is almost the next best thing.

Home to the second largest wheatfields in the world, next to Russia, the Palouse region is filled with the most gorgeous shades of green, yellow and even red rolling hills in every direction. These fields are a photographer's paradise and we will be shooting them from every angle possible during June, the most colorful month of the year.

Farm houses, grain elevators, old weathered barns, old cars, tractors and classic scenes of rural America are scattered all around the countryside. The patterns from these wheat fields are addicting and the cloud formations at this time of year in the Palouse can be dazzling in photos. Summer is the best time to capture this one of a kind landscape as the lush green fields are stunning!

I have used my GPS all over the Palouse to map out many of my favorite spots so that we don't miss anything. The Palouse is one of my favorite places on earth to shoot and this workshop will show you some very special places all over the region to capture powerful images.

Dates: June 6th - 10th, 2027

5 days · 4 nights · $1,475

Small group

One photogenic workshop!

This workshop should have it all as I know the Palouse well and I want everyone to come away with some of the best images possible from this incredible place!! I keep you up late and get you up the crack of dawn....but that is what it takes to get some of the best shots of your life up there!!

We will also have instruction in the meeting room at the hotel and go over everything from camera techniques to the digital workflow. Many aspects of Photoshop will be covered that will help push your images of the Palouse to different levels, including mastering layer masks and exploring the best Photoshop plugins.

Stunning red barns

There are windmills out in the hills now and we will visit them and capture images right underneath them, as they are incredible to photograph in between all the greenery.

We will also be photographing at night and trying to capture barns, old pick up trucks and other things after dark with light painting, as the Palouse region has so much to offer.

I have planned the workshop to coincide with the new moon so we will have totally dark skies for shooting. We will light paint barns and tractors, abandoned houses or grain mills and work in complete darkness with our headlamps and flashlights, and photograph the night sky with the Milky Way, which I love to capture.

There will be a lot of shooting including very early mornings with not a ton of sleep, and we will all carpool to the locations to have less cars on the road. We will stay at the Courtyard by Marriott in Pullman, where I get a great group rate and the conference rooms are gorgeous for our meetings.

I LOVE THE PALOUSE!!