What's New 2019 Archive

December 23rd
We wish you a Happy Holiday Season! Thank you for your support and interest in our workshops, fine art prints, eBooks and Mastery Tutorials and more. We wish you continued success in your photography and in every aspect of your life!


December 15th
www.beautiful-landscape.com webserver update:
My website was migrated to a new server today. I checked it and everything is working fine, however if you notice something unusual let me know. For the engineers and the technically oriented among you my site was upgraded from a hard drive cloud server to a new SSD/NVMe cloud server. In short it means the site will load faster and be more reliable. Not that it wasn’t before but it will be even more so :-)


December 13th
The 2019 Print of the Season Collector Set is available for order. Visit this link to see the special offer price. You get three limited edition prints. There is only one catch: only 4 collectors will own it as it is strickly limited to four sets.


December Print of the Month

December 6th
The 2019 Holidays Special Offer for all 11 Mastery Workshops on DVD/UDB is Live!


December 1st
The December Print of the Month is available. Click here to see which image I selected for December.

November 28th

Natalie and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for your your friendship, your support and your interest in our workshop program and in my fine art landscape photographs.

To celebrate we are offering you a Black Friday Special Offer starting today. Save up to 50% on the eleven Mastery Workshops on USB or DVD. Click here to see the details.


November 19th
The recordings of the 2019 Death Valley Summit are available. Natalie emailed all the Selective Color and HSL Mastery owners yesterday because these recordings comes free with your purchase of the Selective Color-HSL Mastery Workshop.

If you did not receive this email, or if you want to get the recordings now, just email me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com


November 16th
The November Print of the Month is available with a 20% discount until December 1st. You can see which print I selected for this month on the Print of the Month page.


November 10th
We just returned home from teaching the 2019 Death Valley Fine Art Summit after a 2 day drive from Lee Vining to Phoenix with an overnight stopover in Las Vegas. Thank you to all of you who attended and made this event a success, and thank you to Jeff Schewe and Kevin Raber for giving great presentations.

2020 Summit pre-announcement:
The 2020 Fine Art Photography Summit will take place in Page, Arizona the first week of November 2020. Jeff Schewe will be our guest instructor again and both of us will give presentations about our work and about the latest features of Lightroom and Photoshop. We will also be printing participants work during the Summit.

Page is the home of many fantastic photo locations including the Horseshoe Bend, Antelope Canyon, plus many little known slot canyons, hoodoos and unique rock formations. The field workshop after the Summit will take you to Navajoland with photography stops at Monument Valley, Canyon de Chelly, Coal Mesa and many other locations.

2020 Summit email list:
I opened a pre-announcement list for the 2020 Summit. To join this list just email me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com and I will add you to the list. You will be first notified when the Summit is announced later this month.

October 16th
We just announced the Fall 2020 Navajoland Workshop. We have not offered this workshop in 2 years so we expect it to fill out quickly. This is a regular-size workshop, open to 12 participants, and to all experience levels. Details, dates and pricing are at this link.

Due to a cancellation we also have one opening for the Spring 2020 White Sands Workshop. Information is at this link.


Fall 2020 Navajoland Workshop

October 2nd
The October Print of the Month is available. You can find it at this link.


Antelope Canyon Workshop

October 1st
New images were added to the Online Portfolios Section today. These include the following new collections:
- 2019 Joshua Tree Portfolio
- 2019 Antelope Canyon Portfolio
- 2019 Rendez Vous Portfolio
- 2019 Master Class Portfolio
- 2019 Escalante-Grand Staircase Portfolio (start only)
- 2019 Northern New Mexico Portfolio (start only)

September 29th
The winner of the Selective Color and HSL Mastery drawing is Lewis Abel. Lewis wins a free photograph processing and enhancement of one of his photographs. Thank you to all who ordered the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop. Natalie drew the winner.




September 25th
We decided to give you one last chance to order the Selective COlor and HSL Mastery Workshop at 20% off. If you have been sitting on the fence pondering whether to place your order this is the time to do it. Click here to access the 20% off description and ordering page.

The reason for giving you this final opportunity is that we were away teaching the Little Known Northern New Mexico Workshop and our email and phone service went out during our absence. This means people could not call or place email orders.  

It took us some time to rest from teaching and traveling and to get caught up with business that accumulated during our absence. We are now fully operational and ready to take your order. Phone and email work and the special offer is good until we do the drawing for the free Image Adjustment (see below) this weekend.

However the Special offer will absolutely end on September 29th. There will be no second last chance. This is it! Afterwards you will have to pay the regular price (+ 20% more) and you will not get the free gift, and you will not get entered in the free photo-adjustment drawing (see below for details). But . . . if you act now all of this will be yours :-)


September 22nd
The Winner of the free drawing for all orders of the new Selective Color and HSL Mastery will be announced this week. The winner will be announced here, on social media and personally over email. Stay tuned :-)

September 14th
We just returned from teaching the 2019 Little Known Northern New Mexico Workshop. The image featured here was taken at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe by one of our participants. We visited the Museum during the workshop. The reason I am holding the Ferrari Prancing Horse Magazine is because this magazine has a section featuring photographs of Ferrari Club members in various locations holding the magazine and I wanted to be featured in that section. I will submit this photograph, as well as others taken in other locations, and we will see if they publish one of them.


Click on the image to access the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Order Page
Learn how to process color with a level of control you never thought possible with the new
Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop on USB or DVD.

September 5th
This is the Last Call for the Selective Color and HSL Mastery Workshop on USB/DVD special offer. If you have been waiting to place your order this is now or never. Here is the link to the description and ordering page:https://www.beautiful-landscape.com/MDVD-selective-color-hsl-mastery.html

When the Special Offer ends you will have to pay the regular price (+ 20% more) and you will not get the free gift, photo-adjustment drawing entry (see link for details) and free shipping worldwide.  But . . . if you act now all of this will be yours :-)
 
You can also pay in 3 installments if you want.  Details are on the order page.

This USB/DVD workshop works on Mac Mojave and Windows 10 as well as earlier systems.

Our most dedicated students already have their Selective Color and HSL Mastery Workshops in hand. Some asked to have it shipped and some stopped by our home-studio to pick it up. Get yours now and save! Click Here now to see all the details!


David stopped by our studio today and picked up his Selective Color Mastery Workshop.
By the way our Special Offer ends soon. This is your last chance to save 20%!
Did you place your order yet? It's not too late but it is getting close... !

September 2nd
The September Print of the Month is available :-) Click here to discover which image I selected for September.


Hoodoos Afternoon
Click on the image to access the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Order Page



August 30th
The special offer for the new Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop on USB or DVD is ending soon, on September 5th to be exact. If you have not placed your order yet do so now in order to save 20% off the regular price and qualify for the free gifts.We ship free all over the world! A payment plan is available if you want to pay in several installments.

If you need the link to the order and description page let me know.




August 28th

A second image processed entirely with the Selective Color and HSL process is featured on this site. The colors and the contrast level of this image could not have been created without the Selective Color & HSL process. It is the only way to give it this look.

Slot Canyon Afternoon.
Colors created with the Selective Color & HSL process taught
in my new Mastery Course.
By the way the response to my course announcement is fantastic!
Did you order yours yet?



August 23rd
A new image processed entirely with the Selective Color and HSL process is featured on this site. The colors of this image could not have been created without the Selective Color & HSL process. It is the only way to give it this color palette.

The Selective Color & HSL Process in 3 steps from left to right: Raw File, Lightroom conversion and Photoshop adjustments.

August 19th
A new Overview Video showing the entire contents of the new Selective Color and HSL Mastery Workshop on USB/DVD. This movie is accessible from the Selective Color & HSL announcement description and ordering page that you received if you are on the private announcement list. If you did not receive it just email me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com and I will send you the link right away.

August 17th
Just announced: Alain Briot Image Adjustment Giveaway with your purchase of the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop on USB or DVD. Here is how it works:

Place your order for the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop and you will be entered in a drawing for a free adjustment of your photograph by Alain Briot. This is a $450 value, the cost of a 1 hour consulting session:

- I spend 1 hour adjusting your photograph in both Lightroom and Photoshop
- I capture all the processing on video
- I make the video, the layered Photoshop file and the Lightroom presets available to you.

Place your order now to be entered. All previous orders are already entered :-) The winner will be announced here and on social media (Facebook & Instagram).

If you need the link to the private announcement order and description page just email me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com with Selective Color Mastery in the subject line.


The Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop is shipping!

August 13th
The personal email announcements for the Selective Color and HSL Mastery Workshop on USB/DVD were sent this morning. If you are on the list you should have received yours. If you are did not, or if you are not on the list yet, email me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com and I will send yours now.


The Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop is ready to ship

August 12th
I
am just about ready to announce the Selective Color Mastery Workshop on USB/DVD. All the recording, editing, assembly, coding, etc. are completed. Natalie has done the editing and I printed the companion prints. I just need to finish the web description and ordering page and it will be ready to go. I plan to announce it this week. In the meantime, unless you already did, be sure to add your name to the pre announcement list by emailing me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com with Selective Color Mastery in the subject line.

In the meantime you can listen to my Podcast about the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop and read my essay about Why I use Selective Color in my Work.



Click here to listen to the new Podcast episode about the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop on DVD/USB

August 3rd
The August 2019 Print of the Month was published today. You can order it with 20% off, as with all the prints of the month for the first month, at this link.



The Companion print of the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop


July 26th
A podcast episode about the upcoming Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop on USB or DVD is now available on the Podcast page. In this episode I talk about the teaching approach I followed when creating this Expert Knowledge tutorial and I present the contents that make this 11th Mastery Workshop unique. I also explain why this new course important for photographers who are interested in developing a personal style and in creating images that are unique to them.

July 24th
This page features a photograph showing some of the gear I am using for the audio and video recordings of the Selective Color and HSL Mastery Workshop on USB/DVD. Pictured here are my Neumann BCM 705 condenser Microphone, XLR connector, pop filter, with everything mounted on a Heil PL-2T swing arm.


July 18th
I am working on the Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop on USB or DVD. I have a lot of work to do but I am moving along on schedule.

If you have not done so yet, be sure to add your name to the pre-announcement list by emailing me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com with Selective Color Mastery in the subject line. You will benefit from a special offer price and free gifts when this new Mastery Workshop is published.

July 2nd
The July 2019 Print of the Month is available.

June 7th
I published an essay about Why I use Selective Color in my Work. You can read it free on my Reflections Blog. Don't miss it!

June 5th

Coming soon: The Selective Color & HSL Mastery Workshop on USB or DVD. I opened a pre-announcement list. To join just email me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com with Selective Color Mastery in the subject line. You will benefit from a special offer price and free gifts when this new Mastery Workshop is published.


June 4th
A New Before and After online Portfolio is available.

June 2nd
The June 2019 Print of the Month is available.

May 22nd

Three new 'Before and After' compilations are available on this page. Notice the similarity of color palette in these two examples, especially in the orange tones, something I am known for. You can learn how to control color the way I control it (it's not easy but I can teach you) at the Death Valley Summit. You just need to get off the fence and register: https://www.beautiful-landscape.com/Workshop-Summit-19-Death-Valley.html





May 12th
Along a Canyon Wall #6: Before and After. Part of a seventeen images mini-series created during the 2019 Rendez Vous San Juan River trip.

May 9th
Below a photograph of the 2019 Alain Briot Alumni Rendez Vous (not all participants are visible as some were seated behind me). Thank you to all who attended. You made this event a success! We will be announcing the next Rendez Vous soon. Let us know over email if you want to join us.

May 2nd: 2 more reasons to attend the Fine Art Photography Summit
11- The print of the Summit. A limited edition print offered to each Summit participant.
12 - Natalie. Great logistics so that everything runs smoothly and we can enjoy learning and photographing.

2019 Death Valley Fine Art Summit

May 1st
The May Print of the Month is available. Visit the Print of the Month page to see which image I selected for May.

April 27th: 10 Reasons to attend the Fine Art Photography Summit

1 - Death Valley! One of the most amazing photography locations on planet earth. You will have the opportunity to photograph Zabriskie Point, The RaceTrack, the Playa, Golden Canyon, Artist Point and many more locations.

2 - Jeff Schewe. Study Lightroom and Photoshop with not just an expert but one of Adobe's engineers.

3 - Alain Briot. Learn Alain's artistic approach to Lightroom and Photoshop.

4 - Printing. Print your work during the Summit on a dedicated printer using a variety of papers.

5 - Projected print review. Have your work reviewed and improved live by Jeff and Alain.

6 - Raffle. Win one of many prizes including the Epson Printer we use during the Summit, plus ink, paper, books, music CDs and more.

7 - The Vision Field Workshop. Following the Summit we explore and photograph the Eastern Sierra Nevada including the Alabama Hills, the Bishop area, Mono Lake and more.

8 - One on One sessions. Get personalized help from Alain and Jeff processing and printing your photographs.

9 - Live Seminar Presentations. Jeff and Alain will each present classroom sessions each day about the latest Lightroom and Photoshop techniques and how they use these to create their fine art photographs.

10 - Camaraderie. Now in its 17th year the Summit is a yearly gathering of new and previous participants who enjoy sharing and learning from each other. Click here to see your detailed itinerary, Jeff and Alain's presentations, registration info, dates and much more. Click here to register.

Spring 2020 White Sands Workshop
ONLY 1 seat left

 

April 17th: Only one seat left for the 2020 White Sands Workshop
If you have been waiting to register for the 2020 White Sands Workshop this is the last call.  Take action now before it sells out! Click here to read the detailed description, dates and pricing.

April 6th: Three seats left for the 2020 White Sands Workshop
If you have been waiting to register for the 2020 White Sands Workshop this is the time to do it.  Take action now before it sells out! Click here to read the detailed description, dates and pricing.

White Sands is one of the world's most beautiful and photogenic locations.  We only teach this workshop every 3 to 4 years and this is why it is filling fast. As of today we have only 3 seats left so if you want to join us you need to act now:
http://www.beautiful-landscape.com/Workshop-White-Sands-20.html

April 2nd

The April Print of the Month is available. Click here to discover which image I selected for this month.

March 14th
A photograph from our just-completed Joshua Tree Workshop is now featured on this page. This was a fantastic workshop with great participants and great weather. A big 'Thank you' to all who attended and joined us on a fine art photography learning journey.

Joshua Tree Fogged Sunrise: Before & After.
We had fog at sunrise the last morning of the 2019 Joshua Tree workshop.
You had to be there. What a sight! This is my interpretation. Warning: not documentation

March 13th
The Workshops Page was updated today with new workshops and openings.


"I just wanted to say thank you for a fantastic workshop. 
I admit I was a little hesitant about joining a workshop with someone I have not met before, however, I was pleasantly surprised. 
The quality of the instruction, the handouts, and Alain's keen insights
beyond the technical aspects of photography
made this workshop second-to-none and a valuable investment to me. 
Your scheduling and organization of the workshop was flawless. 
In addition, phenomenal locations and a fun and diverse group of participants
made this workshop a clear winner.  
It was definitely worth the money and more."

Rene Pirolt, Antelope Canyon Workshop participant

March 4th
The March print of the Month is available for order. Click here to discover which image I selected for this month.

Little Known Western Navajoland and Grand Canyon.
Join us for a Little Known Workshop and discover areas of Navajoland you never knew existed.

February 26th
The Online Portfolio Galleries were updated with new photographs. The galleries that were previously listed as a 'work in progress' are now populated with new images. A total of over 300 new images were added to the online galleries. The selection, conversion and optimization of this huge number of photographic images represents a massive workload that kept me busy for the past several months.

Specifically, the updated galleries are as follows:
- Grand Canyon
- Western Navajoland
- Moab Summit 2018

- Best of 2019

February 10th
The February 2019 Print of the Month is available. Visit this link to see which photograph I selected for this month.

February 3rd
Due to a cancellation we have 1 seat available for the Joshua Tree Workshop this March.

January 9th
We announced 4 new workshops for 2020. The description of each workshop is on our workshop page at:
http://www.beautiful-landscape.com/Workshop-home.html

The four new workshop are:
- 2020 Little Known Northern Utah Workshop
- 2020 Little Known Western Navajoland Workshop
- 2020 White Sands Workshop
- 2020 Antelope Canyon Workshop

Four new 2020 Workshops

January 5th
Our Start the Year in Style Special Offer is live! Save $100 to $600 on Workshop and Summit registrations and 20% to 50% on Mastery Workshops on USB/DVD !

January 2nd, 2019
New Portfolios are being added to the Online Portfolios Page. This is a work in progress at this stage so come back often to see which new images I will be adding next.

New Portfolios are being added to the Online Portfolios Page

January 1st, 2019
We wish you a Happy New Year! May your photography projects get completed, printed and exhibited and may your photography goals be reached, whatever they may be. And if you need help, we are here and will be here all year long :-)

Natalie and Alain wish you a Happy New Year !

December 29th
The openings for the 2019 Joshua Tree Workshop and Alumni Rendez Vous are now taken. The last workshop opening is for the 2019 Eastern Sierra and Mono Lake Workshop.

Mono Lake
One of the locations we will photograph during the
2019 Eastern Sierra and Mono Lake Workshop

December 24th
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season. Thank you for your support this year and before. We look forward to continuing furthering your passion for Fine Art Landscape Photography!



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