Jon Cornforth offers private nature photography workshops. These 1-3 client adventures allow you to learn from an award-winning professional nature photographer in a focused and collaborative way. Tours include several days of shooting, discussion of composition and technique, review of your work, and advice on marketing your images. You will learn to use dynamic weather, wildlife migrations, and seasonal conditions to create incredible images. Jon’s mantra is, “We can sleep and eat when we get home!”

Jon’s base rate for a private workshop is $450/day, plus expenses. Each additional client will be charged $150/day, for a maximum of 3 clients. Lodging and food expenses depend on the location, but can vary from camping in a tent and eating on a stove to staying in a hotel/lodge with restaurants nearby. Jon also owns a 16’ travel trailer and 22’ powerboat, which can be used for your custom trip for an additional charge.

Jon can lead you to remote locations in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, California, Utah, British Columbia, Yukon, Baja Mexico, Patagonia in South America, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Remote river-rafting expeditions, desert canyon & mountain backpacking trips, wildlife safaris, and underwater critter encounters are all possibilities for your next trip. Please contact Jon to discuss your next photography adventure.

Upcoming opportunities to join Jon for a private nature photography workshop include,

Jon has 1 client booked for a week long backpacking trip to photograph the remote Pickett Range in the North Cascades.  This will be a strenuous week-long backpack trip to photograph one of the most remote areas in the lower 48.

Spend a week photographing the Cascades at the peak of fall color.  Jon will take you to several of Washington's National Forests in search of beautiful fall landscape images.

Jon will lead you to some of the world's most spectacular mountain scenery in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina.  This will be a backpacking trip where you will spend a lot of time camping in terrible weather waiting for the opportunity to photograph Mt Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre in spectacular light.  You will earn these images!

"Jon's workshop offers an opportunity very different from the standard 6-12 participant experience. It's a smaller and more intimate setting, where your questions are always answered, and there's a natural give-and-take between you. Traveling as a small group offers a flexibility that I learned is essential to nature photography. He has a keen sense of timing built over years spent in the field. We were able to travel from site to site and change our itinerary on a daily basis, all while we watched the upcoming weather and satellite forecasts. If you sign up for a workshop with Jon, you will become a nature photographer for the time you are with him. By the end of our trip, I felt that my knowledge and expertise had taken a giant leap forward, and I am forever changed as a photographer because of it. Jon is also really funny! He will entertain you with many stories from his travels, so you will never be bored on a hike."

"Jon worked with Ross and I to tailor a photography adventure that let us focus on our interests.  We knew we wanted an experience that was representative of a day in the life of a professional nature photographer. Jon suggested some of his favorite Washington locations and handled all of the logistics so that we could focus on learning how to create gallery quality images.  Jon's teaching style was that of a mentor-student while he was with us every minute of the day. He helped us develop a vision for our shots and made sure we executed them to the best of our ability.  An added bonus was that Jon was an excellent guide and companion who genuinely seemed to be enjoying himself."

- Mark Teskey of Minneapolis, MN joined Jon for a private photography workshop on the Olympic Coast of Washington in April 2008. Please read his blog entries Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 to learn more about his workshop experience.