“What separates a workshop from a seminar is the high level of interaction between instructor and students that includes personal critiquing of photos made during the course.

It’s worth paying ten times as much per day to participate in a workshop of ten instead of a seminar of hundred if you expect to learn by hands-on experience.”
Galen Rowell, famous photographer, educator and adventurer.

The Tom Putt Photographic Workshops are led by me, Tom Putt and other fellow award-winning landscape photographers in Australia (see below). I consider myself to be part of the next generation of photographers who have grown up in the digital revolution and embraced all of its advantages. That's not to say that I don't like to use the old-fashioned film cameras either! But I do understand digital photography and imaging programs like Photoshop because I use them everyday in our professional photography businesses.


Tom Putt (AAIPP)

Tom Putt is one of Australia's leading new generation panoramic landscape photographers.   He is an associate member of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AAIPP) and the winner of over 20 AIPP Australian & Victorian Photographer of the Year Awards. In 2005 Tom was the only Australian photographer to be awarded in the prestigious BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.  He has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. Passionate and wildly enthusiastic about his photography, Tom exposed his first roll of film at age 13. Since then he has spent his time exploring all parts of Australia photographing stunning panoramic images.  Tom has led over 50 weekend and one day workshops in the past four years across Australia.  His workshops are now regarded as the best in the country.

Tom Putt is renowned for his unique ability to see the landscape in a different light, putting his own unique spin on a well-known subject to bring it to life.   His photographic eye produces eye-catching images that come to life in the almost larger-than-life landscape prints.

 2010 Highest Scoring Print by a member, AIPP Victorian Photographer of the Year awards

2010 Highest Scoring Print, Illustrative Category, AIPP Victorian Photographer of the Year awards

2010 Runner Up, AIPP Landscape Category, AIPP Victorian Photographer of the Year awards

2010 Runner Up, Illustrative Category, AIPP Victorian Photographer of the Year awards

David Evans (AAIPP)

David Evans believes landscape photography is the art of painting with light to create an image, not merely to capture it.

"This gentle craft appears at a glance to be an easy feat, and yet is so utterly difficult.  Subjects cannot be manufactured, the light cannot be forced, and patience is not an option to be discarded.  Darkness is the canvas.  Slowly and carefully the light is allowed to bleed onto the film."

Moving into the realm of image creation from image capture is the fine art of a good landscape photographer.  Evans has well and truly earned his reputation as one of the finest image-makers in Australia.

David Evans has a distinctive style, one he calls slow photography.  His images frequently have an ethereal and painterly quality, a result of slow film and long shutter speeds ranging from seconds to hours.

AIPP 2009 South Australian Professional Photographer of the Year

AIPP 2009 South Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year

AIPP 2009 South Australian Illustrative Photographer of the Year

AIPP 2008 South Australian Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year

AIPP 2008 Australian Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year runner-up

AIPP 2008 South Australian Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year

AIPP 2006 South Australian Professional Photographer of the Year

AIPP 2006 South Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year

Ian Wallace (AAIPP)

Ian Wallace is a successful landscape photographer based in Hobart. He has previously lead workshops at Cradle Mountain so he comes to us with a wealth of experience. Ian shoots a variety of different formats, using medium format camera for his landscape work, and a pair of Nikon D200 cameras for his amazing underwater photography.

He has self-published two books on Tasmania and was featured as a Tasmanian Living Artist in 2005. A past Vice President of the AIPP, Ian was awarded AIPP Tasmanian Photographer of the Year in 2008 and runner up in 2007.

AIPP 2008 Tasmanian Photographer of the Year

AIPP 2007 Runner Up Tasmanian Photographer of the Year.

Christian Fletcher (AIPP)

Christian Fletcher was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1965. An early introduction to the workings of the camera and a fondness for the freedom of wide open spaces combined to see him where he is today. A decision to move to Dunsborough in the south west of Western Australia as the incentive to pursue photography as a career.

"Everybody has their own idea about what is or what makes a good photograph. I believe simplicity is the key and I try to leave out more than I include, landscapes can be full of distracting shapes and colours so composition is very important to the overall feel of an image.

Light is the next important ingredient. Light is everything, without it photography would not exist. With a combination of good technique, good equipment and an eye for composition uninteresting objects can be transformed into things of beauty.

My work is influenced by the shapes and movement of the Leeuwin Naturaliste coast. I am lucky to live in a relatively untouched part of the world surrounded by a variety of landscapes and constantly changing light conditions."

Christian owns three galleries in the south-west Western Australia.