Autumn Landscapes • All Inclusive • High-Elevation Color
Utah Fall Colors Workshop 2027
An all-inclusive high-country workshop among vast aspen forests, alpine lakes, creeks, meadows, and 11,000-foot peaks at the height of autumn color.
Dates
September 27–30, 2027
Base
Southern Utah High Country
Tuition
$2,649
Group
Six photographers
Availability
Registration Now Open
Questions are not a booking. I reply personally, usually within a few hours.
Last year’s participant review
“Having breakfast in the field after sunrise and supper before sunset just added to the overall experience. With this workshop, Hunter has raised the bar that all other workshops will need to follow.”
The ideal workshop environment
An all-inclusive experience designed to remove distractions.
Meals
Breakfast and dinner are prepared fresh each day. Meals are hot, homemade, and intentionally unhurried—a time to reflect and connect.
Lodging
Each participant has a private cabin. Everything is within a comfortable 30-second to two-minute walk.
Locations
Photograph beneath 10,000-foot peaks, beside winding streams, alpine meadows, lakes, and expansive fall landscapes without crowds.
Private cabins • homemade meals • pristine landscapes
A small-group photography retreat in Utah’s high country.
Join a fully guided photography workshop in Utah’s high alpine landscapes this fall. This immersive photography tour offers one-on-one instruction, small group sizes, and exclusive access to remote mountain locations filled with golden aspens, meandering creeks, and rugged peaks.
This Utah Fall Colors Photography Workshop is perfect for photographers of all skill levels looking to improve their landscape photography. With a professional nature photographer as your guide, you’ll explore scenic locations most tourists never see, all timed around the best lighting and fall-color conditions.
Utah photography workshops like this are rare: a small group, private cabins tucked among golden foliage, homemade meals, and locations where we have yet to encounter another photographer. The experience offers an extraordinary range of scenes, from alpine lakes and winding rivers to aspen forests and mountains rising above 10,000 feet. If you are looking for a workshop that checks every box, this is it: a chance to become fully immersed in nature, strengthen your creative vision, and make meaningful artwork in remarkable solitude.
A more thoughtful way to photograph fall color
What made you stop—and what are you truly trying to photograph?
This workshop is built around slowing down, looking more carefully, and learning how to create photographs with greater intention.
Fall color in the mountains can be incredibly beautiful, but it can also be visually overwhelming. Aspens, trunks, branches, grasses, shadows, highlights, color, movement, and distant ridgelines can quickly become chaotic unless you know how to simplify the scene and find the reason you stopped in the first place.
Rather than rushing from location to location, we spend time working through scenes carefully. I help each participant identify the subject within the larger landscape, simplify the frame, use light and color with purpose, and make deliberate choices about depth, balance, and visual flow.
Understand the chaos
Photograph forests with purpose and intention.
Photographing forests is one of the most difficult challenges in landscape photography. Visual complexity and chaotic layers can quickly overwhelm the frame unless you know how to approach them.
You’ll learn to work with forest light, isolate subjects, compress layers with telephoto lenses, and bring order to visual chaos through deliberate framing and intentional design. If forest scenes have ever left you frustrated, this workshop will change how you see them.
It’s all about the experience
Private cabins, shared meals, and days immersed in autumn.
Each participant stays in their own private cabin, set among beautiful aspen groves and just across the road from a large mountain lake. Fresh meals are prepared each morning and evening, giving the workshop a comfortable rhythm between long days in the field.
Transportation is included throughout the trip. We travel quiet dirt roads, photograph sweeping mountain views, work among golden aspens, and spend time near the Pando aspen forest, one of the largest living organisms on Earth.
At nearly 10,000 feet, fast-moving storms, dramatic skies, distant horizons, and changing light all become part of the experience. In all the years I have run this workshop, we have not seen another photographer in the field.
What is covered
Everything needed to stay focused on creating.
Included
- Private cabin lodging
- All ground transportation
- Daily critique and editing
- Composition discussions
- Lightroom and Photoshop techniques
- Breakfast and dinner
Not included
- Airfare and travel to the workshop
- Alcoholic beverages
- Travel insurance
- Camera gear
Learning in the field
Learning points
Basics
Practical technique, stronger seeing, and personal guidance
Ideal settings for each location
Handling light and shadow
Creative
Photograph in full manual
Histogram and light meter mastery
Use of polarizers
Composition discussion
Best light for fall foliage
What elements make a great image
How to photograph fall foliage
Intimate and small scenes
In-depth forest discussions
Image blending in Photoshop
Workshop highlights
All-inclusive experience
Limited participants
Your own private cabin
Photo-editing sessions
Freshly prepared meals
Remote fall-color locations
In-the-field guidance
Wilderness without crowds
Workshop film
Inside the Utah Fall Colors Workshop.
From Utah's Fall Colors High Country
Workshop Image Studies.
Workshop details
Everything you need before booking.
Review the experience level, field requirements, equipment, elevation, lodging, instruction, and cancellation terms before reserving your place.
What experience level is allowed?+
Every level of photographer is welcome, from beginners to advanced photographers.
Are there physical requirements?+
We will walk or hike roughly two or more miles per day. Terrain is variable and generally involves moderate hiking.
What camera gear should I bring?+
Bring the gear you are comfortable using, including a 12–24mm wide-angle lens, 24–120mm mid-range lens, 100–500mm telephoto lens, sturdy tripod, shutter-release cable, polarizing filter, and camera backpack.
What is the elevation?+
The workshop takes place in Utah’s high country at elevations approaching 11,000 feet.
Are meals and lodging included?+
Yes. Each participant has a private cabin, and freshly prepared breakfast and dinner are included.
Will there be editing instruction?+
Yes. We’ll have a dedicated Photoshop editing session on one of the days, and image critique is provided daily throughout the workshop.
Cancellation policy+
Life happens. The policies below outline what happens in the case of a cancellation.
More than 90 days before the workshop: Your deposit will be refunded minus $300.
90 to 31 days before the workshop: The deposit is retained. If the space fills, you will receive a refund minus $300.
Within 30 days of the workshop: No refund is issued unless the space fills; any refund is minus $300.
Reserve your place
Book the Utah Fall Colors Workshop 2027.
September 27–30, 2027
Southern Utah High Country
Payment option
Deposit
$750
The $750 deposit applies toward the $2,649 workshop price. The remaining balance is $1,899, due June 27, 2027.
Choose a payment option, then complete your registration securely here.
FAQ
Utah Fall Colors Workshop 2027
Quick answers before booking.
What is the Utah Fall Colors Photography Workshop?+
It is a small-group, all-inclusive fall photography workshop in the Southern Utah high country, timed for golden aspens, alpine lakes, creeks, meadows, mountain light, and high-elevation autumn color.
Are lodging and meals included?+
Yes. Private cabin lodging plus freshly prepared breakfast and dinner are included, along with transportation during the workshop.
What experience level is best for this workshop?+
All photography levels are welcome, from beginners through advanced photographers. Instruction is tailored to each participant's current skill level.
How physical is the workshop?+
Participants should expect moderate hiking and walking on uneven high-country terrain, with some days including two or more miles of walking while carrying camera gear.
What will we photograph?+
Primary subjects include golden aspens, high-country forests, mountain peaks, lakes, creeks, meadows, intimate landscape details, and fall foliage.
Get in touch
Questions about the workshop?
Send me a quick note and I will respond within a few hours. Ask about availability, experience level, equipment, or travel.