Brown Drakes. Silver Creek, Idaho

Brown drakes are not finished yet but the BIG nights are behind us. There were a couple of extraordinary spinner falls. The below image was shot a few nights ago.

Spring on Silver Creek

Spring is here and so are the thunderstorms that light up our night skies and owlets are hidden high in their nests still and infantile grasses are poking through the prairie soil and new tender aspen leaves shake in the wind and spring mayflies emerge periodically leaving empty husks to drift.

I cannot wait to photograph a massive thunderstorm with the Nikon Z9 I’m using given the game changing “Pre Release” function. Essentially, I can capture images up to a full second into the past… I used the pre release function yesterday to capture the image below.

Silver Creek near Picabo, Idaho

Silver Creek Photography Workshop

Silver Creek Photography Workshop

Dates: September 12 - 16, 2024

Hosted By: Arian Stevens and Nick Price

Workshop Price: $3,600

Workshop Details:

Nick Price will be co-teaching this photography workshop with Bend, OR photographer Arian Stevens. The class will take place on Silver Creek, near Picabo, Idaho where you will have 3 full days to cover a variety of aspects from natural light portraiture, macro, landscape, travel, to on location with a fly fishing guide and other models. Fly fishing photography is the emphasis. We will utilize our two streamside cabins—located on Silver Creek—for lectures, one on one critiques, a jumping off point and not to mention the delicious meals we will be having each evening at this incredible location.

What’s Covered:

Beginning with how to conceptualize shots you want to get, Arian and Nick will walk everyone through fundamentals — iso, exposure compensation, depth of field, aperture, shutter speed, etc. There will be lecture time and time spent in the field with models, hatches, and early fall scenery on one of the most beautiful spring creeks in the West. With fundamentals as a baseline, we’ll work on visualizing the shots you want to take before you press the shutter release.

“We learn by our failures and the only way to fail is to try.” —Peter Souza

Location:

Located in south central Idaho, Silver Creek is a low gradient spring creek rich in insect life known as the graduate school of fly fishing. It’s in a high desert prairie setting with Sun Valley and a more alpine topography 45 minutes to the north. This is a perfect location to work on fly fishing photography along with landscapes, portraits, macro imagery, and more.

What’s Needed:

A willingness to learn!

“Curiousity will get you through hard times when nothing else will.” —Jim Harrison

Everyone who attends should have a digital camera that allows for manual control. Do not feel as though you need to own or bring a myriad of lenses. In fact this might be a great opportunity to learn about other focal lengths and max apertures to decide whether or not you need that new lens. Nick spent 3 years of shooting with only a 35 mm ƒ2 lens. Ideally everyone will have a laptop with photo editing software enabling downloading imagery taken during the workshop. While this is not an Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop workshop, Nick and Arian will discuss their respective workflows using these two platforms.

What’s Included:

4 nights of lodging and all meals are included. Check-in is late afternoon / early evening on Sept 12. Check-out is late morning of Sept 16. The two cabins we will be using are located on Silver Creek. Max size for this class is 7 and the minimum number of participants needed is 4.

Contact Nick Price or Arian Stevens for more information and or to grab your spot:

email Nick Price: nickpricephotography@gmail.com

email Arian Stevens: greenwoodimages@gmail.com

Behind the scenes from the 2023 Silver Creek Photography Workshop

La Mosquitia Honduras Tarpon Diptych

Clear black water and crazy black pupils and golden hued scales. A tarpon caught up a river in the Honduran jungle in La Mosquitia.

Available as a fine art print. Email Nick with inquiries.

La Mosquitia Tarpon Diptych:

The Drake Magazine

New work in the current issue of The Drake Magazine.

Glacially tinted water on a Chilean Patagonia river

Anglers Journal Winter 2024

New work in the current issue of Anglers Journal. Shot in Magdalena Bay, Mexico. Angler Benny Blanco with a striped marlin on and 3/4 of his rod dislocated…

A Mag Bay striped marlin…

La Mosquitia, Honduras Tarpon

Just returned home from an incredible trip to Gracias a Dios and the Honduran Mosquito Coast. This was an exploratory trip fishing lagoons and heading up rivers in search of snook and tarpon… Below, Miskito people harvest rice in a small clearing in the jungle along a river. Gracias a Dios is a region our US State Department has classified as a Level 4: Do Not Travel

In short this was an incredible experience that will be an editorial feature in the coming months…

Costa Marlin Fly Project

Some recently released work from Costa’s Marlin Fly Project for which I was the photographer. This was an incredible project that dovetailed conservation and community with the added bonus of a largish group of like minded anglers getting together and sharing an incredible experience. This took place at Los Locos Mag Bay.

Perrin James filming

Wesley Locke above the madness…

Paula Shearer with Noah Thompson rooting her on.

San Carlos, Baja, Mex

Benny Blanco

Los Locos Captain, Tacón

Hillary Hutcheson

Goats and a Mag Bay Barrier Island

lin and

Striped marlin and bait ball

Faraway Cay Haircuts

Honduras. Farway Cay. Mosquito Coast. This is an incredible place and certainly a favorite of mine. Cannot wait to get back soon and then again in the spring. I’m hosting groups to both Faraway Cay AND Guanaja in March and April. Reach out for details!

Coco, the de facto Faraway barber, gives Edwin an end-of-the-season cut.

Editorial Fly Fishing Photography

Here’s some new work in the just released issue—15.1 Fall—of The FlyFish Journal.

From an incredible trip to Jardines De La Reina, Cuba in May of 2021

Spotted eagle ray with a permit in tow. This was shot in May at Faraway Cay in Honduras.

The Independent Photographer

Editors pick in the black and white category for The Independent Phtographer. I shot the image last November in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina during the annual Tradición festival. Shooting Areco during Tradición is a personal photography project I’m currently working on.

Gaucho & Tropilla

Silver Creek, Idaho

It’s been wet here making stream flows high—thank goodness—and the landscape super green.

Silver Creek. June

Faraway Cay, Honduras Permit

Here’s a short clip I shot while out at Faraway Cay in Honduras on a recent two week trip. In short, staying at and fishing from this remote key (island) is nothing short of amazing. Permit are the draw—and anglers have more shots at them than any other place I’ve been. The remoteness, location, and Honduran guides though make this an even more special place…

I will be hosting trips in 2024 to Faraway again and please reach out if you’re interested. Their season is March through May.

Permit on eagle rays on the Mosquito Coast in Honduras. Faraway Cay.