• Cost:  $4400 per person (travel and meals not included)

• Limited to:  5 photographers

• Policy:  All workshops are non-smoking

• Location: Edinburg, Texas

• # of Days: 4 Full Days

• Wait List: add me to the WAIT LIST

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Workshops are limited to give each participant personalized and focused attention.  Learn how to get stunning images of birds in all their glory in deep South Texas.  Alan Murphy, an internationally published photographer, renowned for exceptional photographs of birds on perches which add to the artistry of the image, will be drawing from over 25 years of experience and knowledge to offer:

 

• How to locate certain species

• How to get birds to land where you want

• How to search for and select the appropriate perch

• How to set up staging and landing perch for small birds in flight

• How to choose best camera settings to freeze action

• All the tips and tricks that bring stunning images together

 

Alan has been photographing at this location for the past 15 years. He knows how to get some of the most difficult-to-photograph species (specialty birds of the Rio-Grande valley) down onto his set-ups and how to capture them in flight.

The workshop is help on a private ranch designed for bird photography. We have two morning songbird blinds and two afternoon songbird blinds. We also have three multi level raptor blinds.

This workshop will be designed to target each species and work the situation to get the ultimate image of that bird. There are many different ways to control the situation for each species and you will take away the knowledge of these techniques to use wherever you shoot around the country.

• Cost:  $5800 per person (travel and meals not included)

• Limited to: 6 photographers

• Policy:  All workshops are non-smoking

• Location: Homer, Alaska

• # of Days:  5 Full Days

• Wait List: add me to the WAIT LIST

 

This workshop consists of 3 days photographing eagles and 2 days photographing songbirds. Our workshop base is located 223 miles SW of Anchorage on Kachemak Bay, Alaska. We will be using a charter boat to photograph eagles for three days and the remaining two days will be spent in Anchor Point on private property photographing the many species of Boreal songbirds both perched and in flight.

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Kachemak Bay is one of the premier Bald Eagle photography locations in the US and my favorite eagle photography location on the planet. Large numbers of habituated eagles gather there each year making for
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• Cost:  $8000 per person

• Limited to: 7 photographers

• Policy:  All workshops are non-smoking

• Locations: (3) Oakley, KS; Wray, CO; Craig, CO

• # of Days:  8 Full Days

• Accommodations: are included in cost of workshop

• Transportation:  is NOT included in cost of workshop

• Wait List: add me to the WAIT LIST

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This workshop consists of 8 days, across 3 locations, photographing 4 species: Greater Prairie-Chicken, Lesser Prairie-Chicken*, Sharp-tailed Grouse, and Greater Sage-Grouse with the possibility of additional species.  We will spend mornings photographing each species. The afternoons are down-time, or you are free to explore the areas on your own. If I find a dependable subject to photograph in the evening, we will do that. Each location is a lek and are NOT on public property, therefore I have secured access with the owners to photograph on their private property/ranches. We will be the only people on the leks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• Cost:  $5400 per person (travel and meals not included)
• Limited to: 6 photographers

• Policy:  All workshops are non-smoking

• Location: Green Valley, Arizona

• # of Days: 4 Full Days

• Wait List: add me to the WAIT LIST

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This workshop is not only about learning how to get birds to land on that perfect perch, but you will also get lots of action images and birds in flight. You will learn how to best utilize feeders, ponds, and bird calls to bring species in, and then how to control the situation to get that stunning portrait with the intimate pose.
 

• How to locate certain species.

• How to get birds to land where you want them to.

• How to search for and select the appropriate perch.

• How to place the perch in relation to the background and sun direction.

• How to dress up the perches to match the bird’s habitat.

• How to work a feeder and water drip to their best advantage.

• How to get stunning images of songbirds in flight

• All the tips and tricks that bring a stunning image together.

 

We have two amazing locations on private property with a lot of species that are constantly active in front of the blinds. Land owner Dano Grayson danograyson.com is a photographer himself and knows what bird photographers want to see in the viewfinder. He has setup the most amazing blinds with the right combination of habitat, water and food and backgrounds.  One afternoon session we will photograph a variety of snake species and Gila Monster. In addition, we have an optional evening activity photpgraphing bats at the pond.  All flash and trigger equipment will be supplied.

 

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• Cost:  $5400 per person (travel and meals not included)

• Limited to: 5 photographers

• Policy:  All workshops are non-smoking

• Location: Evergreen, CO

• # of Days: 4 Full Days

• Wait List: add me to the WAIT LIST

 

This workshop is not only about learning how to get birds to land on that perfect perch, but you will also get lots of action images and birds in flight. You will learn how to best utilize feeders, ponds, and bird calls to bring species in, and then how to control the situation to get that stunning portrait with the intimate pose.


• How to locate certain species.

• How to get birds to land where you want them to.

• How to search for and select the appropriate perch.

• How to place the perch in relation to the background and sun direction.

• How to dress up the perches to match the bird’s habitat.

• How to work a feeder to their best advantage.

• How to get stunning images of songbirds in flight

    
All the tips and tricks that bring a stunning image together.
We will spend up to two days working from blinds on private property. The property has a creek and a pond that hosts Belted Kingfishers. There are stocked feeders on the property along with numerous nest boxes for Tree and Violet-green Swallows, Western and Mountain Bluebirds. The feeders draw in several species of birds that we will be doing setups for, and we will also photograph them in flight. The rest of the workshop time we will be going into the field to pre-scouted locations to work on cavity nesters and birds on territory.

• Cost:  $4800 per person (travel and meals not included)

• Limited to: 5 photographers

• Policy:  All workshops are non-smoking

• Location: Evergreen, CO

• # of Days: 4 Full Days

• Wait List: add me to the WAIT LIST

 

This workshop is designed to get incredible images of Belted Kingfishers as they perch and dive for food. Alan has been working with these kingfishers for two years, figuring out all the nuances in order to get the most incredible images of this elusive species. Mornings will be spent on the Murphy residence photographing many species of mountain birds on stunning perches and in flight. Afternoons will be spent at a pond on private property, photographing the kingfishers from a comfortable blind. We will be photographing the kingfishers perched and diving down for fish. We will also have the opportunity to photograph the kingfishers as they dive into a large fish tank that’s setup for underwater imagery and do up close wide angle imagery of the kingfishers diving. The Kingfisher shoot is an afternoon shoot only unless it's cloudy/overcast. If that’s the case, we can spend the whole day photographing kingfishers.  t. If that’s the case, we can spend the whole day photographing Kingfishers.

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• Photograph Kingfishers perched with fish

• Photograph Kingfishers as they dive, enter the water and fly back to the perch with fish

• Photograph Kingfishers as they dive under water in a set-up aquarium

• Photograph Kingfisher up close with wide angle set-up.

• Photograph many mountain species of birds perched on beautiful perches

• Photograph many songbird species in flight

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• Leader: Dano Grayson (this workshop is not lead by Alan Murphy)
• Cost:  $3800 per person (travel and meals not included)
• Limited to: 6 photographers

• Policy:  All workshops are non-smoking

• Location: Green Valley, Arizona

• # of Days: 4 Full Days | 2025 Dates: Sept 11-14; Sept 16-19

• Wait List: add me to the WAIT LIST

 

Arizona is a completely different state when the monsoons come. Birds nest again, migrants come through, fruit bats are plentiful and the hummer species are at their all time high. We will endeavor to enjoy the following:

 

• Multi-flash setup for Hummers

• Water drip set up for photographing Migrants

• Setup for Fruit Bats (night shoot)

• Macro session with desert insects and arachnids and scorpions

• Night shoot for Western screech-Owl

• Opportunities for wide angle storm photography with lightening

• Setups for birds in flight

• Photo session with a diverse collection of reptiles

• Photo session with bats skimming the pond (night shoot)

 

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• Cost:  $5200 per person (travel and meals not included)

• Limited to: 5 photographers

• Policy:  All workshops are non-smoking

• Location: Santa Barbara, California

• # of Days: 4 Full Days

• Wait List: add me to the WAIT LIST

 

Brian E. Small and Alan Murphy co-lead the workshop. This workshop is based on a private 1500 acre ranch owned by birders who have been attracting birds for many years.

 

The ranch owner feeds the birds daily year round so the activity at the blinds is very busy. This is an excellent location to get some of the California specialties, such as Yellow-billed Magpie, Band-tailed Pigeon, California Thrasher, Nuttall's Woodpecker and many others. We also have opportunities for Golden Eagle. This workshop will be designed to target each species and work the situation to get the ultimate image of that bird. There are many different ways to control the setup for each species and you will take away the knowledge of these techniques to use wherever you shoot around the country. We will also photograph all these species in flight allowing you to come away with award winning images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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