September 5-7 Rogue River workshop
Digital photography workshop and whitewater lodge trip!
If you are even thinking of taking a photo workshop any time soon you should check out the Rogue River Trip we’re doing which will be and incredible blend of rafting, photography and relaxing at the historic river side lodges.
September 5-7, 2010 and there are spots still available. Register Here.
There are some some very cool photography workshops on the books for late fall with spaces still available. Check out our current schedule here and look for our winter schedule to be out in late September and we will be adding courses throughout the year from Intro to Advanced so subscribe to the RSS feed or email us to get on our mailing list for course updates and event news. We offer private instruction as well as private group instruction so if there is something you are itching to learn or your photography club or group would like to request a special course just contact us.
A Fresh New Website
I’m excited to announce the launch of the fresh new Jared Cruce photography website.
We’ve filled the site with our new work, buffed out sections on our new studio. Like a breath of fresh mountain air, we’re invigorated, feeling good and looking forward to keeping it coming! We hope you are too! Take a look and let us know what you think!
Besides showing our new portfolio, we built the site to give our clients and friends a better understanding of what we do and our capabilities. We offer a 1350 sq. ft. studio, location and production services and retouching. We are located in possibly one of the most beautiful regions of America (a.k.a location opportunities abound) and when were not busy with commercial and editorial clients we are teaching some killer workshops in and around Ashland, Oregon!
Did I mention we now have a nice home for Jared Cruce Photo Workshops.
The site was a collaboration with our buddy Thad Allender at Graphpaper Press and we couldn’t be happier. Thad is doing some amazing things with websites and bringing new technology to us artists who can really make use of it. We’re pretty lucky to had him work on this for us! If fact it came out so good that GPP is using it as an example and design theme for entrepreneurial photographers. You can see what they’re doing here. I think that is pretty cool. Thad is not only a sweet developer, he’s a photographer himself and has a great sense of the web from our perspective.
We’ll be keeping you up to date via our blog. We have some new things happening in the near future so stay tuned!
Busy Working on a New Website
Well it’s been a while since we have done a major update to the website. Our partners at NeonSky have really been great to work with and we have had blasts of compliments. I can honestly say that NeonSky is one of the rare companies who has maintained awesome customer service over the life of my time there. I would highly recommend them for Flash based websites.
The time has come though to move forward and into new light. I can’t wait for it to be up and running. We’ve got something really special for you guys coming out soon. Brand new images, totally new site, our fairly new blog will be fired up and fed to all those interested.
We are most importantly looking to get into a wordpress based system where our work can be seen and heard. We have partnered with a totally out of the box, visionary company Graph Paper Press and Thad Allender it’s founder and number one genius has developed this site for us from the ground up. We have taken all the things we loved about our site, improved upon them and then inserted a bunch of killer elements we felt were missing.
We’ll have a better portfolio page, a cool new look at personal work I haven’t had a place to show before, and our workshops schedule and information will get a smoking new place to live. We look forward to presenting it in the next few weeks and here your feedback.
Feature in Explorers Club “Chronicles”
This month pacific northwest chapter of the Explorers Club has featured my expedition / travel work in their online magazine Chronicles. Iwas invited to be a member of the Explorer’s club in 2005 and am honored to be in their second edition of the new magazine. Last month Art Wolfe was featured so it is pretty cool to follow up a legend like Art. Click Here and download the free PDF. The Explorers Club is pretty distinguished group of adventurers, scientists and people pushing the limits of …well, exploring. If you want to see what pushing the extreme is check out what a fellow PNW Explorers Club member Eruc Erden is doing.
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- The Dalai Lama’s historic summer palace, Lhasa Tibet
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- Tibetan monks shot in Tibet on a 5 week expedition.
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- Hanging with the locals in one of the most remote inhabitable areas of this Planet.
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- As we departed our Tibetan friends came down to the river to see us off.
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- Chiang, Tibetan Wild Donkey – Sangdise Mountains, Ngari, Tibet
Speaking Art Wolfe, I got to meet Art last this month at the Creativelive workshop I participated in Seattle. Art dropped by to check out what was going on at the Vincent Laforet HD DSLR workshop…I’ll share more of this intense experience in another post, but it was pretty awesome and if you haven’t seen or heard of Creativelive.com you should definitely check it out. More on that later!
A Real Pro – CR Johnson
Late this February while I was watching the Winter Olympics I heard the sad news of the death of free skiing phenom CR Johnson. CR died while skiing in his backyard, doing what he loved and that is something to be celebrated for sure. I was fortunate enough to hang out with CR in Aspen a couple of years back while shooting the XGames and the Smith team riders. CR stuck out in my mind! He was profoundly humble and seemed mature well beyond his years. I remember during the shoot asking him to do a couple different poses like crossing his arms. I was shooting from a low angle and playing around with that “badass” athlete sort of look – which all of these kids certainly were. Athletically speaking that is! CR said something like “Sure, but that’s not really me.” I told him then to just do what feels natural and he put is hands back in his pocket, in the most unassuming and laid back manner.
CR will be missed as a radical skiing innovator and a consumate professional in his sport. But, I think he’ll be missed even more because he was a supremely genuine and kind person who stood out not because of an ego, but because of his humble nature.
2010 spring and summer workshop schedule
This is busiest we’ve been as far as teaching and we’re doing some new and cool things. Most notably we’re stoked about the the 3 day workshop on the wild and scenic section of the Rogue River. We’ll be hooking up with Momentum River Expeditions on one of the prettiest rivers in the northwest if not the continental US. And, what’s even more cool about this trip is that we’ll be traveling down the remote and rugged river in total style! Each night we’ll pull off the river (from running the whitewater and shooting the breathtaking scenery and adventure) and stay at one of the way cool lodges parked on the banks of the Rogue. So for those who love the outdoors but not sleeping on the ground or those that sleep on the ground all the time and feel it’s time to spoil themselves – here’s your chance. Check out what I’m talking about here. (more…)
