Newfoundland

July 2, 2023: Arrive at any time today to St. John’s, Newfoundland. We’ll meet in the evening for a group dinner to get to know each other and review our plans for the workshop.

July 3, 2023: This morning we’ll depart for our first photo shoots at Pouch Cove and Biscayne Cove, just outside of St. John’s. We’ll spend the afternoon north of St. John’s visiting numerous fishing villages such as Heart’s Delight, New Perlican and Heart’s Content. The day will end with a sunset photoshoot at Cavendish.

July 4, 2023: After a morning image review we will head to Cape St. Mary’s, the most accessible seabird rookery in North America. Cape St. Mary’s is also the southernmost breeding area for thick-billed murres in the world, and for common murres in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Bird Rock is the southernmost (third-largest ) nesting site for northern gannets in North America. These sites are filled with perching, diving, and scrambling birds from edge to edge—a moving, breathing spectacle of color and sound.

July 5, 2023: After breakfast we will depart from St. John’s for our hotel in Bonavista Bay, our base for the next three nights. Our drive will include stops to photograph the bays, coves, and tickles along the way, and we’ll be keeping an eye out for icebergs, eagles, and whales.

July 6, 2023: Today we’ll head out on a private boat tour early in the morning, where our focus will be on icebergs, puffins, bald eagles, and whales. Humpback whales are common in this area and sperm, minke, pilot whales and (rarely) orcas are sometimes present too. You may also see dolphins, porpoises, eagles, and a variety of pelagic sea birds. In the afternoon we will head to Elliston to photograph Atlantic puffins—the only puffin species in the North Atlantic Ocean. Elliston Point is home to approximately 3,000 nesting pairs of puffins, and North and South Bird Islands are home to another 1,200 pairs.

July 7, 2023: We’ll start the day with an image review and critique session, and then head out to “Iceberg Alley,” a corridor of ocean that runs down from Greenland. We’ll be focusing our photographic efforts on Dungeons Provincial Park, Spillar’s Cove and Bonavista Lighthouse (built in 1843 and one of the few in the world where you can still climb the stone tower and see the c1800s catoptric light apparatus).

July 8, 2023: This morning we’ll start our trip back to St. John’s, stopping for lunch and photography along the way. Then, after a last dinner together, we’ll head out for a sunset shoot at Cape Spear Lighthouse. Perched on a craggy headland, this oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland and Labrador offers a glimpse into the lives of 19th-century lighthouse keepers and their families. The skies above the lighthouse swirl with seabirds, and the ocean beyond offers icebergs, humpback whales, and pods of porpoise.

July 9, 2023: Flights home can be scheduled at any time this day.