Join us as we learn how to bring your photos to life!
Bringing Your Work to Life: Best Practices for Books, Projects, or Selling Your Work.
How do you see your work? How can you communicate a theme / concept / idea in the images you select? What is the best way to demonstrate and show your work? For this series we will focus on Bringing Your Work to Life and will bring together experts in books, projects, and printing to talk about their experiences with best practices / framework for how they go about building their own projects and sharing their work in the best medium.
The series will start on November 19th with Nature Photography Classes Founder, Nic Stover sharing with the NPC audience about Printing and Selling Your Work. In the last 4 years, Nic has sold over $200k of prints and will provide insights for people that are looking to start selling their work, want to increase their sales, or understand if this is a good medium for them.
Nic will be followed by acclaimed author of Photographing the Dolomites and Photographing Iceland, James Rushforth. Rushy (as he is affectionately called) will lead us through Exploring the Italian Dolomites and Iceland with James Rushforth – an unexpected career in photography and guidebook writing.
Rounding out the series and returning to the NPC stage is the timeless and incredibly prolific publisher of Lenswork Magazine, Brooks Jensen. With over 170 issues printed spanning decades and hundreds of curated portfolios it is safe to say that over his 50+ year career no one has seen more projects or helped more photographers than Brooks. He will be talking about Editing and Sequencing Projects.
If you have any interest in developing your work either and to understand the various ways you can sequence, organize, share, or display your work, this is the series for you.
The speaker series from Nature Photography Classes are a unique opportunity to hear from and interact with people that rarely speak with audiences and are considered some of the best photography educators in the world.
- Nic Stover "Printing & Selling Your Work" (available now)
- James Rushforth "Exploring the Italian Dolomites & Iceland: an unexpected career in photography and guidebook writing" (LIVE Saturday, November 30th at 9:00 a.m. PST/ 12:00 p.m. EST Note: this session will be presented LIVE on a Saturday)
- Brooks Jensen "The Power of Projects: Beyond the Single Image" (LIVE Wednesday, December 4th at 4:00 p.m. PST/ 7:00 p.m. EST)
Registration for the series comes with the opportunity to ask questions live, rewatch the sessions as much as you want for as long as you want, and even download for offline viewing. They are all recorded so no need to be there live!
These LIVE 90+ minute sessions will be incredibly packed with decades of knowledge, insights, and tangible ways to improve connection with your work. This is also an extremely affordable speaker series at only $22 per speaker or get all 3 speakers for only $57!
5% of all registration fees will be donated to the environmental cause or organization of the speakers choosing. Another great opportunity to give back!
As always, 100% moneyback guarantee if you are not happy for ANY reason.
The sessions will be hosted by Nic Stover, founder of Nature Photography Classes. Registration for the series comes with the opportunity to rewatch the sessions as much. You will have permanent access to the recordings through My Library, YouTube or Dropbox file download.
Nic Stover teaches "Printing & Selling Your Work"
Nic Stover
We start this series, turning the camera a different way and back towards the founder of Nature Photography Classes and host of the speaker series, Nic Stover. Nic has presented to over 250+ camera clubs on light, technique, and a host of other topics and has hosted 54 speakers as part of the speaker series. This session on Printing and Selling Your Work builds off his popular preparing your Images for Print Class.
Since 2018, Nic has been selling his work at galleries, small shops, and large art fairs. See this video link for a sample layout for a regional art fair. In the past 4 years, he has sold over $200K of prints, cards, and folios, and he wants to help you understand some of the following things.
1. Do I want to sell my work? What are the headaches and potential rewards.
2. How do I price my work? What makes sense for you and the market.
3. What is the right size or type of print? How you can start small and test concepts / images and slowly work your way up bigger pieces.
4. What images should I select? What are Nic’s top selling pieces, what regional considerations need to be accounted for.
5. What is harder to sell?
6. What mediums sell the most? Metal, canvas, traditional prints. The answers might surprise you.
7. Where should I look to display my work? Coffee shops or at the Met or somewhere in between.
8. What causes the biggest stress points and how can you avoid them?
And so MUCH more. Much of the value of this session will come from your questions!
Bio:
Nature Photography Classes was founded in 2021 by Nic Stover. Nic grew up in Carbondale, Colorado and now lives in San Luis Obispo, CA with his wife Jen where he teaches photography classes, leads in person workshops, brings together amazing educators, and interacts with people at local art fairs who want to put their work in their home or business.
Learn more about Nic and his work on his website.
Nic will be supporting Inspired Creator with 5% from the registration fees
Cost: $22 (or as part of the entire series for only $57!)
James Rushforth teaches "Exploring the Italian Dolomites & Iceland: an unexpected career in photography and guidebook writing"
James Rushforth
In this talk James describes his unexpected and fortuitous journey into outdoor and adventure photography and writing; from first picking up a camera in 2012 to his success at the British and International Photography awards just a decade later. James’ transient lifestyle, moving between the pale mountains of the Italian Dolomites to the wilds of Iceland, has led to the creation of three photo-location guidebooks, showcasing his images and providing cultural and local information for visitors to his adopted regions. The presentation follows his natural progression from adventure to landscape photography, focusing on the logistics and creative nuances of both.
Bio:
James Rushforth is a climber, mountaineer, skier, travel writer and guest speaker. An internationally acclaimed photographer and author who has worked with distinguished publishing houses Rockfax, Cicerone Press and FotoVue. James is amongst the UK's most awarded photographers, and was the Travel Media Awards Photographer of the Year in 2022, GTMA Global Travel Award winner and British Drone Photographer of the Year in 2020, the British Guild of Travel Writers Photographer of the Year in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, a double category winner at the International Photography Awards in 2018, and Epson Digital Splash Photographer of the Year, also in 2018.
In 2021 James authored ‘Photographing Iceland’ – a two volume set of photo-location guidebooks that would claim four prestigious publishing awards during 2022 – Travel winner at the Best Indie Book Awards, Guidebook of the Year at both the British Guild of Travel Writers and Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild annual awards, and Travel Guidebook of the Year at the Foreword INDIES awards.
His work frequently appears in national newspapers, guidebooks and magazines around the world; whilst on social media he is part of the National Geographic YourShot photography team.
You can learn more about James and his work on his website.
James will be supporting Brathay Trust with 5% from the registration fees
Cost: $22 (or as part of the entire series for only $57!)
Brooks Jensen teaches "The Power of Projects: Beyond the Single Image"
Brooks Jensen
In this session, participants will learn how to effectively choose their best images, refine them through thoughtful editing, and create a compelling narrative through sequencing.
Bio:
Brooks Jensen is a fine-art photographer, publisher, workshop teacher, and writer. He and his late wife (Maureen Gallagher) are the owners, co-founders, editors, and publishers of the award winning LensWork, one of today’s most respected and important periodicals in fine art photography. With subscribers in 72 countries, Brooks’ impact on fine art photography is truly world-wide. His long-running podcast on photography and the creative process is heard over the Internet by thousands every day. LensWork is currently in its 31th year of publication.
LensWork Publishing is also at the leading edge in multimedia and digital media publishing with LensWork Extended Computer Edition and the LensWork Tablet Edition — both PDF based, media-rich expanded version of the magazine. LensWork Online is a membership website with literally terabytes of online content including videos, audios, workshops, and inspiration for your creative photographic endeavors. Brooks' personal work can be seen in his on-going series, Kokoro, a PDF based, downloadable periodical.
Brooks Jensen is the author of nine best-selling books on photography and creativity: Looking at Images, The Creative Life in Photography, Letting Go of the Camera, the three volume set Single Exposures: Random Observations on Art, Photography and Creativity. His most recent books are Photography, Art, & Media; The Best of the LensWork Interviews. He is also the editor and publisher of Seeing in SIXES (four volumes published in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019), Our Magnificent Planet 2020, Our Magnificent Planet 2021, Trilogies 2022, and Light, Glorious Light 2023.
Two monographs of Brooks' personal photograph have been published: Made of Steel (2012) and Dreams of Japan (2021).
Learn more about Brooks and his work on his website and LensWork.
Brooks will be supporting Inspired Creator with 5% from the registration fees
Cost: $22 (or as part of the entire series for only $57!)
