Explore nostalgia, emotion, and the art of visual storytelling without color.

Chuck Kimmerle

With trillions of photographs being created each year, it can seem a daunting task to get our work noticed above the din. Through examples of his own work, and that of others, we will discuss best practices for creating unique work while staying true to our personal vision.

Bio:

Chuck began his photography career as a newspaper photojournalist and photo editor. It was during this time that he, along with three fellow staff photographers, was named as a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. After more than 15 years working at daily newspapers in four different states, Chuck left the stress of photojournalism and began working as chief photographer, and occasional art director, at the University of North Dakota, where he remained for another ten years.

During these years as a staff photographer, Chuck spent an increasing amount of time photographing the landscapes near where he lived. As his work photographs were primarily done color and prominently featured people, his personal work was exclusively black and white and eschewed people.

This distinct delineation between his work pictures and personal, creative photographs was essential. However, there is no denying the influence that photojournalism has had upon his personal work. His images are direct, reticent, balanced, and unique with much of it containing artificial (man-made) objects juxtaposed against the natural landscape.

Learn more about Chuck on his website. 

Chuck will be supporting Friends of the Inyo with 5% from the registration fees donated to their mission.

Price: $22 (or as part of the entire series for only $77!)

Len Metcalf

Monochrome photography has a way of slowing us down. It removes distraction and invites a deeper kind of seeing — not only into the landscape, but into ourselves. In this considered and quietly powerful presentation, Australian artist and educator Len Metcalf shares his unique approach to monochrome nature photography, one shaped by abstraction, intuition, and emotional resonance.

Rather than following convention or technical formulae, Len invites participants to explore image-making as a deeply personal and creative act — one rooted in quiet observation and inner awareness. The work becomes less about recording reality and more about shaping a personal, interpretive vision. Tone, form and light become expressive tools, and the photograph shifts from recording to creative expression.

Through the careful use of tonal contrast and a deep understanding of how the eye reads light, Len teaches how to guide the viewer’s attention and create images that are not only aesthetically powerful, but psychologically rich. He explores how our imagination lingers in the shadows, and how simplicity can be liberating rather than limiting.

At its heart, Len’s monochrome practice is about creating with care — not only for the art itself, but for the natural world it honours. His work offers a quiet resistance to the fast, bright culture of distraction, and calls for a more reverent way of seeing. Beneath the surface, this presentation is also a gentle call to action — a reminder of what we stand to lose, and a tribute to the fragile beauty we must fight to protect.

Bio:

Len Metcalf is an Australian artist whose creative life is deeply rooted in the Blue Mountains — a place he calls his spiritual home. His photographs, known for their quiet clarity and emotional depth, reflect a long and thoughtful engagement with the natural world. Working primarily in monochrome, Len creates contemplative images that explore abstraction, mood, and form, including hand-crafted photogravures that extend his photographic practice into the tactile realm of fine art printmaking.

Though best known for his photography, Len’s creative work also spans drawing, painting, and printmaking. He is a trained and highly experienced educator, with two degrees in education and a lifelong passion for teaching. His approach to learning is anything but conventional — blending artistic intuition with clear structure, emotional sensitivity with practical guidance. Len has taught in classrooms, workshops, wilderness settings, and universities — including training teachers themselves — always with the same commitment: to awaken creative confidence and help people see with new eyes.

His work is held in private and public collections around the world, including a major portfolio at PhotoMuse: The Museum of Photography. But perhaps his most enduring legacy lies in the lives of his students — artists and photographers who credit Len with transforming not only their images, but their ways of seeing, thinking, and being.

At heart, Len is an environmentalist and educator who uses art to foster care — for self, for others, and for the fragile, fleeting landscapes we live within. His work speaks not only to what we see, but to how we see — and why it matters.

You can learn more about Len and his work on his website.

Len will be supporting Bob Brown Foundation with 5% from the registration fees donated to their mission.

Price: $22 (or as part of the entire series for only $77!)

John Barclay

In this presentation, John will share his approach to crafting expressive B&W images. This will include:

1. Why it is so important to pay attention to how we show up to make photographs.
2. What influences the decision to make a B&W image.
3. When and why Infrared might be considered.
4. How John approaches B&W processing for both color and Infrared RAW captures.

John will share many examples of both color converted and Infrared B&W images as well as an overview of his approach to editing both.

Bio:

John Barclay is an award wining freelance photographer based in Bucks County, PA.John is a passionate photographer, enthusiastic workshop leader and inspirational speaker, presenting his programs to audiences around the world. John is an Ambassador for Maven Filters and Lensbaby, and, well known, for his Topaz Webinars.

John’s work has been published in a number of books and magazines, including the highly esteemed Lenswork Magazine, and is treasured by a number of private collectors. Recently, John was the recipient of an excellence award from B&W Magazine, had his B&W Aurora folio featured in Lenswork. John was chosen by Dewitt Jones to participate in his www.healingimages.org program.

You can learn more about John, his work, and, view his workshop schedule on his website.

John will be supporting Defenders of Wildlife with 5% from the registration fees donated to their mission.

Price: $22 (or as part of the entire series for only $77!)

Jennifer King

Since the creation of the photographic process, the art of photography has been rendered through time by many photographers in very different ways. Always translating the changes in our world, capturing our lives and enriching our vision. The art of black and white photography is powerful yet simple. It is timeless yet an illusion. Step away from the act of converting an image to black and white, and learn the art to creating a black and white photo. It’s time to let your inner artist out, and get creative!

Bio:

Jennifer King is an internationally acclaimed nature and fine art photographer. She is honored to have been named the first woman ambassador and master of photography in the field of nature photography by the industry. 

She has built a respectable reputation with award winning photography, and is one of the premiere black and white photographers in the country. Jennifer was also recognized as the #1 Wildlife Photographer in the US in 2025.

Jennifer is a Moab Master Photographer and noted as 1 of 15 Amazing Women to Follow (by 500px). She is also the founder of PHOTOGRAPHY for the FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER (pfabc.org), an industry wide organization bringing together the biggest names in photography to raise money for breast cancer research. 

You can find her photography, video tutorials and interviews in Nature Photographer’s Network, Outdoor Photographer Magazine, Shutter Magazine, Camera in the Wild, Photography Talk, Smoky Mountains Journal of Photography, Our State Magazine, VIA Magazine and more! She also speaks at yearly summits for organizations across the world.

Learn more about Jennifer on her website.

Jennifer will be supporting Photography for the Fight Against Breast Cancer with 5% from the registration fees donated to our mission.

Price: $22 (or as part of the entire series for only $77!)