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FRIENDS TRAVEL ADVENTURES Next Year's Photo Workshops: Tips from the Pros

It's about 4:30 A.M. and you're up preparing for the break of dawn. The crisp morning air bites at your face and hands as you bundle your camera gear and head out.

It's February and a light snow covers the desert floor. Your destination is Monument Valley. Your mission, to catch the red glow of first light illuminating the red rocks of the Mittens at Monument Valley.

You're one of about 20 persons from throughout the country attending a Friends of Arizona Highways Photo Workshop with contributing photographer Jerry Sieve. Before this day is over, you'll know a lot more about taking landscape pictures. You'll have some photographs that you'll show over and over again. And you'll have experiences you'll remember for a lifetime.

Sieve's February workshop in Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly is just one of the 1996 schedule of Photo Workshops conducted by Arizona Highways contributing photographers.

At the workshops, you'll learn the techniques they use. Landscape photographers like Gary Ladd, Randy Prentice, and Michael Fatali will discuss lighting, composition, and other aspects of successful photographing.

Representatives of Nikon, Hasselblad, Fuji, and Image Craft also will be there to discuss film, cameras, lenses, and other technical details.

But it will be the Arizona scenes you will remember the

A GRAND HOLIDAY GIFT FROM THE GRAND CANYON STATE Arizona Highways Gift Subscriptions The Friends' 1996 Photo Workshop schedule includes:

Lake Powell Houseboating; February 13-17; Gary Ladd. Monument Valley & Canyon de Chelly; February 20-24; Jerry Sieve.

Ghost Towns and Missions; March 6-9; J. Peter Mortimer. Secrets of the Sonoran Desert; March 27-30; Randy Prentice. Monument Valley; April 10-13; John Drew. Canyon de Chelly; April 17-20; Jay Dusard. Slot Canyons; May 1-4; Michael Fatali. Grand Canyon River Rafting; May 19-26; Edward McCain.

Most the red and purple mountains, the cool alpine forests, the pull of the desert.

If you're interested in scenic and Nature photography and if you love the Arizona outback, these Photo Workshops are designed for you. They are small enough so that they can be useful to photographers of all skill levels. There are field sessions in the daytime and critique sessions at night.

The first part of the 1996workshop schedule is listed above. More trips will be covered in December.

Next month's column also will contain the schedule of Friends' scenic back-packing tours, and will introduce a new tour combining the best of sightseeing and photo instructions.

To obtain a brochure listing all of the trips, contact the Friends of Arizona Highways, 2039 W. Lewis Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85009; (602) 271-5904.

This year give your family and friends a gift they'll enjoy throughout the year. A gift that celebrates the wonders of Arizona and explores its diverse landscape, magnificent wildlife, fascinating history, and more.

Gift subscriptions to Arizona Highways are convenient for you and are an exceptional value. Your first one-year gift (or your own subscription order) is just $19. Then each additional one-year gift ordered at the same time is only $17 - saving you more than 40% off the cover price! (For international subscriptions, add $10 per year for postage and handling.) Unless otherwise requested, announcement cards will be sent directly to your recipients to arrive in time for the holidays.