Our goal is to promote your vision in photography and facilitate your way to making touching images of living nature, comprised of technical quality and artistic taste.
We conduct Macroclass in unique and pristine environments. All the participants are given the ability to photograph animals and plants in natural ecosystems, and are getting involved into nature conservation the right way.
Macroclass Leaders
Gregory A. Pozhvanov
Biologist, photographer, PhD, Adobe Certified Associate.
“Golden Turtle”, Global Arctic Awards, and National Geographic Russia contest finalist. Gregory′s interests are flora macro photography and nature landscape photography. He works in Belogorie nature reserve, travels to Ladoga lake skerries in Karelia and to mountains in Russian North above the Arctic Circle, teaches macro photography and organises photo expeditions.
+7 991 000-42-01, [email protected] Facebook VK.com
Yulia Vtyurina
Wildlife photographer specializing in creative macro photography.
Jury member (2013), repeatedly winner and finalist of “Golden Turtle” nature photography contest, GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalist. Works on her own creative projects in Valdai national park, Belogorie nature reserve and St. Petersburg regional conservation areas.
+7 999 204-17-38, [email protected] Facebook VK
We have changed our field workshops concept for 2017 to devote more time to creative exploration and to offer our participants new routes of progress.
Nevertheless, we do not abandon our educative seminars with a cup of tea at the projector′s.
That said, our field workshops have no more any minimal required number of participants. Tours will occur anyway, regardless of the number of participants registered, and tours will be as flexible as needed to account for your photographic interests and preferences. You are welcome to select any unit you like more, or to combine a few units in case you have time to see different locations.
Elton salt lake. Canon EOS 40D, EF-S 10–22mm f/3.5–4.5 USM, ƒ/9 ISO 100 1/13″.
White – desert steppe in Elton lake nature park
Elton lake nature park [ map ]
10.04 – 15.04.2017
Saratov – Volgograd, 5.5 days
Fully booked
Registration deadline: 15.02.2017
Camping at Elton. Canon EOS 40D, EF 17–40mm f/4L USM, ƒ/9 ISO 100.
Accomodation: tent camp, field cuisine
Photography: iris and tulip flowers in desert steppe around lake Elton, wetland birds on migration path, takyr textures, desert flora, minimalist landscape.
Equipment: basic2 + warm sleeping bag, windstorm jacket, membrane jacket, fleece pullover or underwear, hat, baseball cap or bandana, sunglasses, membrane waterpfoof pants, fisherman′s boots
Iris sp., Kalmykia. Photo by Yulia Vtyurina.
Red, yellow and orange – tulips and sands of Kalmykia
Harbinsky state nature area [ map ]
19.04 – 22.04.2017
Astrahan′ – Elista, 4 days
Participants: 1–2
Registration deadline: 7.04.2017
Contact Gregory to participate: [email protected]
Tulips and geranium in Kalmykia. Photo by Yulia Vtyurina.
Accomodation: motel, tent camp, field cuisine
Photography: flora and texture close ups, birds, desert landscapes
Equipment: basic2 + warm sleeping bag, windstorm jacket, membrane jacket, fleece pullover or underwear, hat, baseball cap or bandana, sunglasses, membrane waterpfoof pants
Аспект цветущей черемши, Мезмай. Фото Марины Сотниковой, Плантариум.
Green and blue – Mezmay – primroses in mountains of Caucasus
Mezmay, Krasnodar region, Western Caucasus [ map ]
24.04 – 29.04.2017
Krasnodar – Mezmay – Stavropol, 6 days
Participants: 3–4
Registration deadline: 15.04.2017
Contact Gregory to participate: [email protected]
Beech and hornbeam forest. Box-tree forest. Photos by Maria Sotnikova, Plantarium.
Phyllitis scolopendrium fern. Sigma 150mm f/2.8 Macro EX DG HSM, ƒ/11 ISO 200 1.3″.
Forest on mountains in spring, Adygea. EF 70–300mm f/4.5–5.6 DO IS USM, ƒ/13 ISO 200 1/200″.
Accomodation: tent camp, field cuisine
Photogragphy: primroses, spring forest, mountain landscape
Equipment: basic2 + warm sleeping bag, windstorm jacket, membrane jacket, fleece pullover or underwear, hat, baseball cap or bandana, sunglasses, membrane waterpfoof pants, fisherman′s boots, photo backpack
Optionally: Trekking poles
Field of poppies. Naryn Huduk, Kalmykia. EF 70–300mm f/4.5–5.6 DO IS USM, ƒ/9 ISO 640 1/640″.
Red – poppies, birds and deserts in Kalmykia
Chernie Zemli nature reserve neighborhood, Manych lake, Kuma river [ map ]
30.04 – 5.05.2017
Stavropol – Ulan-Hol – Elista, 6 days
Participants: 1–2
Registration deadline: 15.04.2017
Contact Gregory to participate: [email protected]
Poppies. Tsegan-Elsin sands, Kalmykia. Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm f/2.8, ƒ/2.8 ISO 100 1/1000″.
Texture of sand. Tsuva, Kalmykia. Fujifilm X100T, Fujinon 23mm f/2.0 Aspherical Super EBC, ƒ/2.2 ISO 50 1/10″.
Naryn Huduk, Kalmykia. EF 17–40mm f/4L USM, ƒ/11 ISO 200 1/50″.
Swamp owl. Photo by Yulia Vtyurina. EF 300mm f/4L IS USM, ƒ/5.6 ISO 500 1/400″.
Accomodation: tent camp, field cuisine
Photogragphy: poppy fields, sand textures, birds and animals around salt lakes
Equipment: basic2 + warm sleeping bag, windstorm jacket, membrane jacket, fleece pullover or underwear, hat, baseball cap or bandana, sunglasses, membrane waterpfoof pants, fisherman′s boots
Sage and feather grass. EF 70–300mm f/4.5–5.6 DO IS USM, ƒ/9 ISO 400 1/160″.
Protected areas macro photography – creative seminar in Divnogorie
Divnogorie museum reserve, Voronezh region [ map ]
13.05 – 14.05.2017
Participants: up to 15
Registration: from 28.02 to 7.05.2017
Creative seminar is devoted to 100th anniversary of Russian system for protected areas.
Preliminary programme
1. Photo story: Life in industrial landscape
– Yulia Vtyurina, Gregory Pozhvanov
2. Photo story: Textures of flora: patterns and exercizes with composition
– Yulia Vtyurina, Gregory Pozhvanov; seminar + practice
3. Technical seminar: Cloudless past and foggy future
(how to organize photo library to make it handy and painless)
– Gregory Pozhvanov
4. Technical seminar: photographer′s gadget ecosystem and RAW converters
(new ON1 catalogless converter and new tricks in Lightroom/ACR)
– Gregory Pozhvanov
European wood anemone, Anemone nemorosa, under spring forest, Divnogorie. Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm f/2.8, ƒ/2.8 ISO 100 1/1000″.
Accomodation: camping, hotel, private accomodation
Photography: spring forest, lawn in Tikhaya Sosna flood-lands, feather grass steppe and expression of wind
Equipment: basic2
Find Macroclass on Facebook and on VK.
Photographers are saying about Macroclass:
a href=”http://monastyrskiy.ru/blog/?p=1029″>Dmitry Monastyrskiy [ one, two ],
Anna Osina [ one ],
Yulia Vtyurina [ one, two ],
Gregory Pozhvanov [ one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight ],
Photographers′ responses: Dmitry Abanin and Sergei Kukuev
TRK “MIR Belogoria” reported about Macroclass.
Macroclass in 2013–2016
Macroclass participants in 2013–2016. Photos by Gregory Pozhvanov, Dmitry Monastyrskiy, Svetlana Ivanenko.
1 Participation fee
Fee includes:
1. Detailed route, transportation and guidance
2. Consultations, macro photography seminars and additional lectures on location
3. Common equipment (stoves, gas, cookware, tent*)
4. Field kithen and food (3 meals per day on location)
5. Radio
Fee does not include:
1. Your transportation costs to/from tour start/end points
2. Health insurance
3. Alcoholic drinks, caffees, etc.
* in case you have your own tent, we advise you to take it.
Discount:
applicable if you are driving by car and take one or more participants with you.