Let’s talk about photo workshops. On-location, travel workshops have always appealed to me, particularly when thinking about traveling to an unfamiliar place on my own. But I have always had a love-hate relationship with them. I love going out with other photographers, sharing in the discovery of a new place and enjoying the camaraderie of each other’s company, and maybe picking up a few new tips along the way. But I hate being told where to stand, what to photograph, or how to do it. Photography, like other art forms, is mostly a solitary pursuit and I’m more interested in photographing what speaks to me than in re-creating someone else’s vision of how to interpret a place.