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‘one-on-one’ photography workshops with Paolo De Faveri - Private Tuitions Join me on a ‘one-on-one’ photography workshop. Learn new skills, experiment with advanced techniques, develop your vision, all while enjoying in good company an enthralling outdoor experience in some of the best natural environments of Italy. Private tuition is a great way to kick-start your landscape photography hobby, fine tune your skills or analyze in depth a particular aspect or technique. Private photography tuition is a flexible approach to learning and exploring your photography. I have intentionally chosen to not lead group workshops - with some very limited exception - because I do think participants deserve to get the most from such experience. My attention to detail ensures that your time is very well spent and that your photography will benefit greatly as a result of my guidance and professionalism. Based on a two, three or four days timeframe, you can actually choose the locations that you want to visit and photograph or leave the decision making to me, and let me offer you private tuition in some of the best sceneries I know, taking care of your personal needs, expertise level, time availability and period of the year. Mountains or coast, city or rural, in every season there is at least one particular area capable to offer an unforgettable photography experience.	I am fortunate enough to be living in what I believe is one of the most exciting areas in Italy for landscape and nature photographers: majestic peaks, glaciers, waterfalls and lakes in the Alps; enchanted rural sceneries and medieval towns in the plain; the romantic sights of Lake Maggiore, Orta and Viverone, the amazing Ligurian coast featuring worldwide renowned sites such as Cinque Terre, Portofino and Portovenere... It is all here at an easy reach, as the farthest location is at no more than two hours driving from my studio. And this certainly helps a lot in terms of logistic, transport and accomodations, playing its big role for your full satisfaction. So drop everything, pack your bags and pick the next flight! Paolo De Faveri's workshops are designed to help take your creativity to a new level. Through a combination of both in-the-field image sessions and class/lecture sessions on many different topics both technical and artistic, I want to get you to start thinking differently as an artist and spark your artistic vision. Finally do not forget to read further below about workshop locations: I have listed just a few examples among the many possible choices. And remember: thanks to the relative short distances, a high degree of flexibility is always at hand. Have fun choosing your favorite locations, packing them together and creating your own personalized photography workshop. Inquire about workshops Would you like to book your private workshop? Are you interested in inquiring about prices, terms, requirements, or the like? Or maybe you just want to discuss in detail about how it works. Whatever your need is, please use the links below to get in touch, and you will be contacted back right away. Email-me \| Skype-me \| Linkedin \| Google+\| Twitter

Workshop locations
Western Alps - Piedmont Recommended periods: Mid April to mid November - year around for a limited number of locations The portion of the Western Alps within Piedmont territory features some of the best mountain landscapes in Europe, with majestic peaks, forests and woods, streams and waterfalls, glaciers, lakes and high altitude prairies. Furthermore, there are two vast wild areas here, the Gran Paradiso National Park - the oldest and largest protected area in Italy - and the Alpi Marittime Natural Park. Both can offers a fulfilling outdoor experience: wonderful pristine natural sceneries, unexpected encounters with wildlife species, enchanted forests of conifers, endless extensions of prairies dotted with wildflowers. A true landscape photographer's paradise!
	An early summer evening at Pian del Valasco, a wonderful plateau in the heart of the Alpi Marittime natural park.	Valle Stretta is a narrow valley next to the French border. It has it all: evergreen forests, glacial lakes, rivers and streams, waterfalls. And the awesome jagged peak known as Grand Seru dominates the valley at its top.	Early spring at Pian del Re, a plateau in the Western Alps famous for featuring the sources of the Po, the longest italian river. The towering pyramid of the Monviso lies in the background.	Dawn at the Gran Paradiso National Park. The sun rising behind the Gran Paradiso range in a shiny summer morning, with the Rosset lake in the foreground.
The Rocky Giants - Western Alps - Aosta Valley Recommended periods: Mid April to mid November - year around for a limited number of locations Mountains have always inspired awe and a sense of majesty in mankind. Have you ever dreamed of having a chance one day to be staring right in front of the giants of the Alps? The territory of Valle d'Aosta, the smallest region of Italy, is completely mountainous, and the 85% of it lies at an elevation of 1500 m (4500 ft) or higher. And the tallest and most famous peaks of the entire Alps range such as Matterhorn, Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa are all standing here, so close one to each other that two days are in most cases sufficient to see them all. One single word is all what it is necessary to describe this area: wonderland!
	The tiny Lago Bleu lies at the feet of what is probably the most photogenic mountain in the world. The Matterhorn is only the third highest peak in the Alps, but certainly the most famous one thanks to its unmistakable look.	The imposing mass of the Grandes Jorasses in the north-eastern half of the Monte Blanco massif emerges from the blue waters of the Lake of Arpy, one of the best setting for photographing the Lord of the Alps.	The Pyramides Calcaires are a wonderful mountain formation at the top of the Val Veny in Valle d'Aosta, Italy, and are part of the Monte Bianco range.	Ominous stormy skies and roaring water rapids in Valnontey, one of the many valleys on the Aosta Valley's side of the Gran Paradiso National Park, the largest wild area of Italy.
Piedmont - rural landscape, hills and medieval towns Recommended periods: year around. Particularly scenic in winter and spring Here in the plain you certainly miss the grand views and wilderness of the Alps, but you gain an entirely different world of small, romantic, enchanted sceneries. It might sound strange, but I believe that framing a beautiful composition out of a relatively chaotic scene can be a much more difficult task - and thus more rewarding - than photographing the grand vistas you ever dreamed of. The country side is probably the ideal playground for photographers who want to bring their vision to another level.
	I love snow, as it discloses to you an entire new world of creative possibilities ad transforms ordinary scenes into winter wonderlands. Taken in the fields around home an early morning at the beginning of January, under a heavy snowfall.	Langhe and Monferrato hills: an enchanted land where time seems to have stopped.	Springtime in the country: it's a visual feast of colours!	Strong compositions, simple but well defined subjects and some beautiful light: this is what a good photograph is about. When you get out in the country early in the morning and you are blessed with fog, you already know you will be back soon with something good in your bag.
Enchanted Cinque Terre Recommended periods: Mid October to end of March Cinque Terre, famous worldwide for their five enchanted medieval villages with small fishermen ports, narrow cobblestone lanes and romantic trails, is simply a gold mine of photographic opportunities.
	Manarola, with its colourful fishermen's houses clinging onto the rugged cliffs and its tiny port, is probably the most picturesque among the five villages.	The rocky coast beneath the small port of Manarola.	Vernazza, with its colourful fishermen's houses clinging onto a huge cliff	A cleat on a deck at the small harbor of Vernazza, with wintry ominous skies and some sunset reflections on the sea as background.
Venice in winter NEW Recommended periods: Mid November to mid March - Christmas holidays and Carnival excluded In winter, Venice shows what is probably its genuine face. With most of the noisy crowd of tourist reduced to just a handful of art lovers, the beauties of the Serenissima are more readily appreciated. No noise, no waiting, lower prices, slower paces. For photographers, there are even more advantages. In winter days the sun seems never to rise, the light spreads through clouds of polished glass and the shadows are as long as church aisles. Just the best possible conditions, if you are looking for those moody and mysterious atmospheres you had always dreamed of, when thinking of Venice. There are only eight ours of daylight in winter in Venice, but every minute carries with it infinite opportunities for a trained eye.
	"Boy with frog", a sculpture in white steel of the Los Angeles based artist Charles Ray, is prominently situated on the very tip of Punta della Dogana.	Some wonderful stripes of red clouds announcing a glorious sunrise over the Giudecca Canal in Venice, Italy.	An unusual view of the Venice skyline with the snow-covered Alps in the background. Taken from the Lido about 30 minutes after sunrise on a cold and windy morning.	An early morning view of Fondamenta Cavanella in Burano, with one of the many canals of the island and the unmistakable colorful houses.
French Alps - Haute Maurienne Recommended periods: Mid of May to mid of October The Italian western Alps are wonderful, many of the most famous peaks such as Matterhorn, Monte Bianco, Gran Paradiso and Monte Rosa are all within Piedmont or Valle d'Aosta territory. So why one should cross the border and travel hundreds kilometers more if there is nothing that can be missed from this side? Well, for a very simple reason: the Western Alps, as seen from Italy are all facing west - more or less - and if you want to see their peaks shining in some serious alpine glow you have no chance but waking up very very early in the morning and get there before sunrise. I do this very often and it is something special to witness, when the first ray of sun hits the summit of this giants. But if you want to avoid the early wake up, why not crossing the border and make it to the other side just in time for sunset? The show is just as impressive, and you will be back home before midnight! Ah, there is indeed one more reason, yes... the French Alps are just as beautiful as the Italian ones, join me and you will see!
	The roaring rapids of the river Arc in the upper part of the Val Cenis in the french Western Alps, Haute Maurienne. A classic mid springtime scene, roaring waters produced by the snow meltdown, and wildflowers.	A view at sunset of the beautiful cone-shaped peak of the Mont Séti and the creek known as Reculaz, a tributary of the River Arc in Haute Maurienne, Western Alps, France.	A magnificent carpet of wildflowers in Val Cenis, a valley of the Haute Maurienne in the French Western Alps. Stitched from five vertical takes.	A section of the Arc river gorges in Haute Maurienne, French Alps. The Arc is often dry but when in springtime the snow on the Alps begins to melt, it becomes very scenic.