Please note that all workshops under the PSNZ Workshop Series are only available to PSNZ Members. If you wish to attend a workshop, but are not a member of PSNZ, you can join us by completing our online application form.
Please remember to read our Cancellation Policy, below.
Painterly Landscapes
25 October @ 1:00 PM – 27 October @ 1:00 PM
For nearly 40 years Peter Rees has been engaged in fine art as a painter and photographer, with more than 20 exhibitions and vast experience teaching and leading workshops. He brings a painter’s eye to photography and will offer fresh perspectives on how to render the world around us.
This workshop will be based at Ohakune and showcase the Tongariro National Park classic landscapes, intimate landscapes, and the abstractions you can create from semi macro imaging. Processing is a key component and you will spend time under his guidance on your own images as well as observing how Peter approaches his.
On Friday we will meet at Ohakune at 1.00 pm and proceed to our first location returning for dinner followed by an inspirational talk by Peter.
On Saturday we will use locations that span the intimate to the epic returning to our accommodation late afternoon for a further processing session.
On Sunday we will check out and do one last photoshoot concluding with a late lunch at around 1.00pm.
Twin share accommodation (single sex) is included in the price. We will be staying at the Rocky Mountain Chalets in three bedroom chalets that have shared bathroom and kitchen as well as using their conference room. All meal costs are excluded. Dinners will be organised but you need to cover their costs. Please bring breakfasts, water, and snacks. You will be able to buy lunches in Ohakune each day. You need a vehicle but car pooling is strongly encouraged.
Locations will depend on conditions but may include the Waitonga Falls, Silica Terraces and Taranaki Falls loop track. A modest level of fitness is needed as these are around 5 km each.
Maximum attendees: 13
PSNZ Cancellation Policy
Due to the nature of the PSNZ Workshop Series and that the workshops are generally for small groups and often over-subscribed, cancellations can have a significant financial and attendance effect on the workshop, as well as creating a lot of further administration work.
Although we do everything possible to ensure our workshops proceed, sometimes there are things beyond our control.
- PSNZ reserves the right to postpone or cancel a workshop due unforeseen circumstances e.g. covid level affects, facilitator illness, venue access issues, etc. In the event we do cancel a planned workshop, we will attempt to inform attendees as soon as possible and in most cases you will be given an alternative date to attend or provided with a full refund of the workshop costs.
- If a workshop is postponed, the first right of refusal will be given to those who were already booked on that workshop for the rescheduled workshop.
- Should a workshop fail to attract a required minimum number of attendees to make it viable to run, PSNZ reserves the right to cancel the workshop.
- PSNZ will not accept responsibility for travel and accommodation costs incurred by attendees.
- In the event that an attendee booked for the workshop does not turn up, no refund will be given.
- If an attendee cancels between 30 – 15 days prior to the workshop, PSNZ will refund 50% of the workshop fee (less admin fee of $20). If another person on the waiting list can their place, then the attendee will be refunded the total fee paid less the $20 admin fee.
- No refund will be given if an attendee cancels within 14 days of the workshop date unless another person on the waiting list can take their place at short notice. A small administration fee of $20 will apply and be deducted from any refund.
- PSNZ may give a full refund if there are exceptional circumstances involved in a person not being able to attend.