Tours Abroad China offers photography workshops and tours to China.
Huangshan ‘skyline.’ China.
Huangshan rocks & trees. Huangshan, China.
Huangshan outcrop. China.
Our first three days on Huangshan featured sunny days and blue skies. Great weather for casual visitors, but hardly ideal for photographers, who would prefer clouds and mist.
Our photo leaders, George DeWolfe & Lydia Goetze, teach a style of photography that mimics certain aspects of classical Chinese paintings. One important characteristic is to embrace the concept of emptiness, or negative space, as a compositional component. Huangshan is an ideal destination to practice this discipline, as it has been the source of inspiration for Chinese landscape painters over the centuries.
Trees. Suzhou, China.
Bare winter tree fronting karst formations. Yangshuo, China.
The foliage here in Yangshuo, which is in southern China, is a mixture of deciduous trees that lose their leaves in the fall, and leaf out again in the spring — intermingled with the more common tropical or semi-tropical trees that retain their leaves year round. You can see those trees growing up the steep hillsides of the karst formations.
Willow crown fronting dead tree limbs. Minnesota.
Rocks, trees, & mist.
Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China.
Contemplative Landscapes in China photo workshop with Guest Artists George DeWolfe and Lydia Goetze.
Evening light. Zhangjiajie. Hunan, China.
Contemplative Landscapes in China with Guest Artists George DeWolfe & Lydia Goetze.
Wooded area, northern Hunan, China.
Contemplative Landscape photo workshop with Guest Artists Lydia Goetze & George DeWolfe.
Trees in the mist. Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China.
Contemplative Landscapes photo workshop with Guest Artists Lydia Goetze and George DeWolfe.
Floating islands of trees. Yuanjiajie, Hunan, China.
Contemplative Landscapes of China photo workshop with Guest Artists George DeWolfe & Lydia Goetze.
Winter trees. Yangshuo, China.
