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Il Chiostro
241 W. 97th St., 13N
NY, NY 10025
800-990-3506
fax: 858-712-3329

Travel Photography in Sardinia with the Digital Camera
with Bill Woolf
June 21-28 and 28-July 5, 2008
Price: $1,975

Program Description:

This workshop is perfectly located for exploring Sardinia. By that I mean the people, the atmosphere, the landscape, the seascape, and the wildlife of Italy's most unique island. Join a resident photographer as you explore and make sense of this special place, Santu Lussurgiu, and its surrounding area.

You will have the opportunity to interact and photograph village residents, explore the local architecture, discover the truth in the saying "a picture around every corner" with intimate locations available throughout the village and grand vistas found at the edge of the village, visit a mysterious 3,500 year-old nuraghe, drink the local home-made wine and taste casizolu, a wonderful local cheese.

How to develop and tell a story in 6 or 7 images - One of the main focuses of this workshop will be on developing your storytelling in pictures. You will return home with many distinct stories as you learn about this little known area of Italy. Participants will also take one of their visual stories, develop it further, and then print it as a small book (4" X 6") that they will return home with.

A typical village street , photo by Bill Woolf

For this workshop you will need to:
1. Bring your own digital camera
2. Know how to operate it
3. Bring multiple media cards (minimum suggested size for each card is 1 GB)
4. Have some means of downloading and storing your images outside of the camera (this could be anything from a video iPod to your laptop). While not required, it is recommended that participants bring their laptops for downloading and editing their digital images during the workshop.
5. Be sure you have tested any device before arriving, and have all the connectors you need with you, and that you know how to download and view images to that device.

Whether you use a digital SLR or a digital point and shoot camera, you will find the presentations of what to do with all your digital images useful. From fixing your images with a free open source program to exploring Camera RAW in Adobe Lightroom all levels of photographers will find interest as Bill gives demonstrations and tips on workflow and the fixing some of the common nature and landscape photo problems you might find, as well as ways to make the computer side of digital photography easier and less time consuming. There are plenty of handouts provided for the computer side of the workshop. Image critiques occur daily.

Sardinian Festival , photo by Bill Woolf

Activities: In addition to your photography workshop, this program will focus on the cultural, gastronomic, historical and archeological heritage of this region. You will experience the beautiful, less tame part of Italy unlike other areas often visited by throngs of tourists. Here grazing sheep and chestnut colored cows share fields with groves of cork and olive trees and the locals keep time honored traditions for us to discover.

Sardinians are extremely hospitable and the week will foster personal contact between resident and visitor, at the café in town or in their homes to purchase artisan cheeses and wines. The foods, as in other regions of Italy, have their own unique characteristics, from the traditional Sardinian flatbread, delicious pecorino - highly prized even by mainland Italians - to the distinctive local wines you won't taste elsewhere; all this and more await you. Our exploration of the island will include some of the highlights listed below:

• Daily photography instruction with Bill
• Authentic Sardinian breakfast and dinners prepared at the house, using only local and traditional products (independent lunch)
• Visits to an ancient nuraghe; mysterious Bronze age structures dotting the island
• Excursion to the historic town of Bosa with guided tour, lunch and swimming at the beach
• Day trip to Fordonguinus, site of a hot spring and an ancient Roman thermal bath
• A visit to the Roman ruins at Tharros, an ancient Roman port and site of a strategic harbor that helped defend the island from invaders
• Optional morning hike with Sardinian breakfast of homemade sausage, pecorino and bread up in the mountains
• We will stop in the famous town of Cabras where the highly prized bottarga is made, dried red mullet eggs shaved onto pasta generally or eaten on bread as an appetizer.

Click here for further information about the Setting and Accommodations...

About Your Il Chiostro Hosts: Carolyn Wells is the executive chef of St. Bernard's School in New York City. In the summer, she runs cultural workshops with Il Chiostro in Tuscany and Burgundy, France where she lived and worked for five years.
Tom Snyder has worked with Il Chiostro for eight years. He is an herbalist and photographer, works as a marketing rep for health food stores, and loves to travel.

Getting There: Your point of entry should be the Calglieri Airport at the southern tip of Sardinia. From Paris, it is a two hour flight, and from Milan or Rome, approximately 50 minutes. You will be picked up and returned to the airport by van. Renting a car from all the major rental companies is also possible and far more economical if arranged from the U.S.

Price and Registration: $1,975 p/p (Single Supplement - $400)

Includes:

• 7 nights in the agriturismo Antica Dimora in Santu Lussurgiu
• Daily photography classes with critiques
• Authentic Sardinian breakfast and dinners prepared at the house, including wine (independent lunch)
• Visits to an ancient nuraghe; mysterious Bronze age structures dotting the island
• Excursion to Bosa with guided tour
• Day trip to Fordonguinus
• A visit to the Roman ruins at Tharros, an ancient Roman port
• Morning hike with Sardinian breakfast of homemade sausage, pecorino and bread up in the mountains.
• Transfers to/from Calglierie
  

Does Not Include:

• Airfare
• Lunch
• Art supplies
• Local bus transportation
• Independent meals and sight-seeing

To Register:

• Download Registration Form by clicking button at left
• Print, fill out and sign Registration Form
• Mail or fax it to Il Chiostro with a non-refundable deposit of $300 (address and fax number are on the Registration Form)
• You will receive a registration confirmation and subsequently, relevant information about your workshop, travel to Italy, arrivals, suggested supplies, etc.
• Or call us at 800-990-3506 to register by phone

Nuraghe Losa - 1400 B.C., photo by Bill Woolf

The rugged brush of Sardinia

Cork trees of Sardinia

Tombe di Gigante

Running Horse, photo by Bill Woolf

Courtyard, photo by Bill Woolf