The Trip: Over the course of five full days, explore the spectacular and historic lands of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. A cornucopia of visual possiblities will open for us over the course of our journey into these more rural and remote realms of California. We will view historic towns, the "diggin's," craggy peaks, mountain meadows and farmscapes, rivers, and colorful wildflowers, and serendipitous moments, the nature of which we can only guess.

Trip Leader: Dave Wyman's photographs have appeared in various magazines and books, and he has conducted photo tours since 1982. His first book, Backroads of Northern California, covers many of the areas we will visit. Dave has conducted photography tours and workshops for the Los Angeles Zoo, the Death Valley and Yosemite natural history associations, the Los Angeles and San Diego Natural History Museums and UCLA, and he created and directed the travel and nature photography program for the University of Southern California. 

Camera Equipment: For those who have a keen interest in photography, this is the trip to bring it all along - wide angle lenses, telephotos, and filters. Digitial, 35mm and medium format cameras will all work well. If you have questions about which lenses to bring, feel free to contact Dave Wyman.

The trip leader will bring along a laptop and participants with digital cameras may wish to bring along their own computers. If we're still awake at the end of the day, we'll try to look at photographs made during the trip on our computers.

Backup media for digital photographs: Consider bringing along some CDs (Dave can transfer files and burn photos, time permitting), so that you have a backup of your digital photos. Feel free to bring a laptop (but you'll have to carry it), digital wallet, etc.

CF and SD Cards: Have enough space to store at least a day's worth of photographs (which could run into the hundreds).

Batteries: Participants need enough battery power to make it through a day. Consider bringing an extra battery; don't forget the charger. Plan to recharge batteries at night. While we'll have the ability to charge a few batteries at a time in our vehicles, this should not be the favored method.

Additional: Two filters for aficionados: the polarizer and a graduated graduated neutral density filter (digital and film cameras); an 81A or 81B warming filter will allow you to keep a blue tone out of your photographs made in the shade or under cloudy skies (for film cameras). Tripod: for early morning and early evening photography, or for the sharpest possible photographs.

Film Considerations:
- Both Fuji and Kodak have excellent print films, such as Fujicolor and Kodacolor. A good, all-around choice of print film speed for this trip would be ISO 200-400.
- Slide films: Currently, Fujichrome films offer excellent color saturation combined with very fine grain. Kodak also makes excellent amateur and pro films.

What Will be Provided:

- Ground transportation by comfortable passenger van
- Accommodations in a variety of locations
- Entrance fees
- Guided photo walks
- Two group meals
- Misc. group gear

What You Need To Bring:
- Clothes for warm and cool conditions, including comfortable walking shoes
- Money for meals
- Small to medium sized suitcase, camera bag and/or purse
- Tripod (optional, recommended)

CF and SD Cards: Have enough space to store at least a day's worth of photographs (which could run into the hundreds).

Batteries: Participants need enough battery power to make it through a day. Consider bringing an extra battery; don't forget the charger for digital cameras. Plan to recharge batteries at night. We'll have the ability to charge a few batteries at a time in our vehicles too.

Two filters for aficionados: the polarizer and a graduated graduated neutral density filter (digital and film cameras); an 81A or 81B warming filter that will allow you to keep a blue tone out of your photographs made in the shade or under cloudy skies (for film cameras).