Fall Foliage Photography WorkshopS: North CAROLINA Mountains

Sept. 25-27, Oct. 2-4, Oct. 9-11, Oct. 16-18

Full day: $1200 (Private)

Two Days: $1800 (Private)

Three Days: $2100 (Private)

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Fall foliage in the North Carolina mountains starts to peak along the Blue Ridge Parkway in late September and rolls down to lower elevation through Halloween.

Every year, the fall foliage season in southern Appalachia overlaps with hurricane season.

As a photojournalist freelancing with Getty Images, the New York Times and the Associated Press I’ve been covering the biggest hurricanes in the American South for more than a decade and each fall I block off my schedule for hurricane deployment and head to southern Appalachia.

I have a micro camper van that I’ve built specifically to cover hurricanes and I test out gear and logistics off grid while making photos and exploring this impressive landscape.

And after multiple trips each season and thousands of miles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, I’ve learned where and when fall foliage season peaks in western North Carolina — and some places to make photos.

I’m not a landscape photographer. I’ve been a photojournalist for more than 25 years and I frequently shoot mountain scenes with a 70-200mm at f/4 and f/5.6. This is not a landscape photography workshop.

But you’ll probably be making landscape photography a lot. If you are interested in a documentary photography workshop in western North Carolina I offer that in a different workshop.

In this workshop, I’ll lead you to my favorite spots along the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina. Most of them pullovers and a few short popular hikes.

You’ll get a custom private experience addressing your goals and challenges as a photographer — in stunning field locations at the best time of year.

That said, I’m still a working photojournalist covering hurricanes and in the event that I get deployed to cover a disaster, my contingency plan is as follows:

You’ll get a full credit for another workshop at equal or lesser value, or a full refund of workshop tuition. In either case you’ll receive 50% off your next workshop and you’ll get a self-guided itinerary with maps that I make just for you and delivered via PDF.

I also keep tabs on current road closures because of ongoing recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene. The Blue Ridge Parkway is still not fully open after damage in 2024. I covered Helene from landfall in Florida and into these mountains where I hiked into Bat Cave and Chimney Rock. Through the riverbed.