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YELLOWSTONE ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE FIELD SEMINAR

 

Digital Photography and Workflow: Winter in Yellowstone 
January 11-15, 2012
Location: Lamar Buffalo Ranch
Instructor: Cindy Goeddel

 

Yellowstone Winter Photography and Adobe Lightroom

 One of the greatest challenges of digital photography is being able to quickly process and keep track of all the images you are creating. This intensive class is for intermediate to advanced photographers who want to take both their field and computer skills to the next level. Explore the endless wonders of Yellowstone while you learn how to create the best digital negative and put into practice your own successful workflow in Adobe Lightroom.  Discover how having a consistent workflow including digital asset management will allow you to quickly and confidently work with and optimize your images.  Learn how to expertly process your files and have them look fantastic.  Put metadata, keywording, and custom templates to work for you. Find any image in a flash and have fun with digital!  The classroom portion of this course will teach you techniques that will speed your workflow, increase your creativity and maximize your time and resources.  The field portion of this class will focus on advanced compositional and creative digital techniques while we learn how to achieve the very best digital negative.  Instructor Cindy Goeddel is a fine-art photographer and digital workflow expert.


http://www.yellowstoneassociation.org/institute/fieldSeminars/courseDetail.aspx?cid=1295

 

 January 19-26, 2012 (7 nights)

 

Yellowstone Winter Wonderland Extreme Tour 2012

Cindy Goeddel Photography

Locations:  Gardiner, Canyon Yurt Camp, Old Faithful Snow Lodge

Tour size:  Cindy plus 5 people

(To allow for individual attention and lots of room for winter clothes and gear in the snow coaches)

Cost:  $3,200

Deposit: $1,000

Rate this one with 5 stars!  This is the best of the best winter trip!  We will stay two nights in the deep interior of Yellowstone, at the Canyon Yurt Camp.   We will have our own private snow coaches for three days and this location will enable us to be at Lower Falls at both sunrise and sunset, in addition we will be able to access Hayden Valley at first light.  We will also be staying two nights at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge which will provide us with plenty of time to explore and photograph all the wonders of the Upper and Black Sand Geyser Basins.  We will end our tour with 1 1/2 days in the Lamar Valley, the Serengeti of North America.  There will be opportunities to snow shoe in Canyon, Old Faithful, Hayden, and Lamar. 

                                                                                                                                        

 

  February 27 - March 2, 2012 (4 nights)

 

WINTER DIGITAL YELLOWSTONE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

WILDLIFE AND LANDSCAPES

Cindy Goeddel Photography

 

 Tour size:  Cindy plus 5 people

(To allow for individual attention and lots of room for winter clothes and gear in the snow coaches)

Cost:  $1,299

Deposit: $300

March 3-4, 2012            (Optional add-on)

16 hour Adobe Lightroom Workflow Workshop to be held in Bozeman, Montana

Cost:  $300.00

This is a custom photo tour with Cindy Goeddel.   Experience the wonder of winter in Yellowstone.  On day 3, we will take our own private snow coach for the day and experience sunrise on Swan Lake, ghost trees at Norris Geyser Basin, wildlife in Hayden Valley, the spectacular Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and both Upper and Lower Falls in the warm afternoon light.  This is an intensive, five-day workshop, so plan to be busy from before sunup until at after dinner each evening.  During the good light we will explore and photograph the wildly wonderful Yellowstone. Bull elk, snowy bison, big horn rams, wolves, coyotes, otters, trumpeter swans, pronghorn antelope and beaver are all possible subjects. Each day we will explore a different area of the park and will photograph wildlife, landscapes, and thermal features. On most evenings there will be a digital photography lecture, slide show and/or discussion.  This workshop may include snowshoe hikes of up to 2 miles.

 

 

 

http://www.cindygoeddel.com/tours.php

 

 PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

National Wildlife Federation - FIRST PLACE, PROFESSIONAL Landscapes and Plant Life.  Winter Aspens, Yellowstone National Park.  The competition included over 70,000 images.

 

 

Highly Commended Award - Natural World Category from the CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year 2009 competition.

Otter and Yellowstone Cutthroat

A northern River Otter, (Lutra cacadensis) devours a beautiful female Yellowstone Native Cutthroat Trout during the annual summer spawn.  Otters swim gracefully, run well on land, love to play and wander widely.  Unfortunately they were eliminated from many areas due to trapping and river degradation. While in spawning streams, cutthroat trout are preyed upon by numerous animals, including otters, black bears, grizzly bears and osprey.

 

 

BEST PHOTO - Mountain Flora & Fauna award in the 2009 Banff Mountain Photography Competition.  The competition included over 4000 images from photographers in 41 countries.

View the exhibition schedule and winning images at Banff 2009 Winning Image .

LONE WOLF HOWLING

Lone Wolf Howling
 
Near the end of 2006, the Slough Creek wolf pack (Canis lupis) lost its alpha male in a territorial battle.  An 18-month old male wolf from the Agate Creek pack boldly claimed the alpha position and the breeding opportunity with the Slough Creek pack.  In January 2007 he became the youngest alpha male in Yellowstone National Park.

The temperature was 10 below zero F. As the morning light swept across the frozen Lamar Valley, there stood the young alpha male. He had just finished feeding on an elk and began howling for the rest of his pack.  After 69 years of being without wolves, the howl of a wild wolf in Yellowstone is both miraculous and extraordinary. The wolf has returned to Yellowstone where he has always belonged.

Historically plagued by misinformation, fear and hatred, wolves were deliberately exterminated and by 1926 the top carnivore was absent from the Yellowstone ecosystem.  The success of the wolf reintroduction will arguably stand as one of the pivotal conservation achievements of our day.
 
 

Cindy leads photographic tours for Tom Murphy's company, Wilderness Photography Expeditions and teaches Digital Asset Management and Workflow utilizing Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Tours are available year round and are customized to your photographic areas of interest and physical conditioning. Options include backcountry snowshoeing or skiing in winter, and hiking or backpacking the other seasons of the year. Cindy likes to work in small groups or one on one with clients to expand their creativity and skills while exploring and learning about the wonders of Yellowstone. One of the greatest challenges of digital photography is being able to quickly process and keep track of all the images you are creating. Speed your digital workflow, increase your creativity and maximize your time and resources. Utilizing Lightroom, Adobe's new image management application with a bit of Adobe Bridge and Photoshop, this intensive, hands-on training, will teach you how to organize, sort, process, search, automate, present, deliver and archive the thousands of images in your collection.