Adventures in Photography is a collaboration between two leading Western Australian photographers, Adam Monk & Greg Hocking. It has been many years in the planning and grew from a desire to share the love of photography with others in a fun and exciting way.
We run courses, workshops and tours based in beautiful locations in Western Australia and around the world. The courses are social and friendly, giving like minded people the opportunity to share thoughts and ideas on photography.
With the development and advance of digital cameras, Photography is now more accessible than ever, and this interest is growing daily. Cameras are still complex though, and with this new technology comes a whole raft of new skills and technical issues to master to enable us to get the most out of them. At the same time there is still the age old and universal aspect of "seeing" the image. This remains constant and has changed very little throughout the history of photography.
To take a truly good photograph we need a balance between this creative visualization and the technical know how, because one simply will not work without the other.
Beyond the camera, Digital imaging has created a set of creative stages that used to be the realm of the professional laboratory. From RAW image processing and creative image manipulation, to the final printing itself. All these things are now within the budget of most photographers, but how to know what you need, and how to make it all work?
The aim of Adventures in Photography, is to take you through this step by step, stage by stage. From how to get the most out of your camera, how to visualise and look beyond the normal view in a scene to create a great image, then how to take that image to its final destination as a great print you will be proud to hang on your wall or exhibit.
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Adam Monk was born and raised in Fremantle, Western Australia and his connection with photography as artistic expression began at a very early age, along with a strong desire to travel the world's wild places.
Inevitably, these two great loves, photography and travel have blended and they have become his passion and his vocation, with Adam now recognised as one of Australia's most inspired landscape photographers.
Adam has travelled extensively in Australia and overseas – experiencing and photographing some of the world's most extraordinary and spectacular places.
His work has won numerous awards and hangs in many private collections, both in Australia and overseas.
Greg Hocking is widely regarded as one of Australia's leading Landscape and Commercial Photographers. He has lectured in photography at both TAFE and University and runs photographic tours and workshops within Australia and overseas.
- Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year 1997 and 1999
- WA Commercial Photographer of the Year 2004
- WA Landscape Photographer of the Year 1996 and 1998
- International Hasselblad Master 2005
- Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography
- AIPP Master of Photography
- Dip, in Photography