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• Business by Day, Stargazers by Night Workshop

  • When
    June 28, 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Rd, Charlotte, VT 05445

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  Business by Day, Stargazers by Night with VPP

  Join Brittany and Dean of Two Adventurous Souls for a dynamic evening that blends business savvy with creative inspiration. Start with Brittany’s no-nonsense Business Bootcamp, where you’ll gain the tools and insights to confidently price your work, plan your finances, and set yourself up for long-term success. After a dinner break, Dean takes you on a cosmic journey into Landscape Astrophotography, sharing how he captures stunning nightscapes and the gear, planning, and techniques behind them. For those who dare to stay up late, an optional hands-on shooting session under the stars will cap off the night—bring your gear, your questions, and your sense of adventure!

  Business Bootcamp
  3-5pm
  

  The business side of being self-employed isn't glamorous but it's a necessity for success. Figuring out Pricing your Services, Cost of Doing Business, Financial Goals for your business, and factoring in all your personal finances is a daunting task. We've got a spreadsheet for that! (I told you it wasn't glamorous.)

  Brittany has used this method of operating a full year ahead & spreadsheet to know exactly when to drop the day job and dive head first into being a full-time business owner. It also helped her, 7 years after going full time, make it through the COVID shutdown with very little impact to business and personal finances. In Brittany's "Business Bootcamp" class you'll get all the tools you need to understand all the numbers to make your business & life tick - if you put in the hard work.

  It's the million-dollar question asked on national forums: "How do I know when it's time to go full time?" Whether you're just starting out, thinking about when is the right time to leave the "day job", or a seasoned professional looking to really dial finances in for your business, this class will have something for you.

  Bring your computer, a list of all your current package pricing, expenses, personal info (you don't have to, but it makes it easier to follow along if you can enter info on your computer in real time) and caffeine!

  A Night with the Stars: An Introduction to Landscape Astrophotography
  6:30-8:30pm 

  Welcome to an introduction to Landscape Astrophotography! Take a journey into capturing the cosmos, with Dean Bugaj, MainePPA’s 2025 Landscape Photographer of the year. This class is geared to those souls who laugh in the face of sleep and think being outdoors on a mountain, next to the ocean, or overlooking a lighthouse lit only by the billions of stars in the sky sounds like a good time. Join Dean for for a evening of information and optional experiential learning on capturing the night sky. Learn about gear, settings, constellations, star trails, planning, composition and more! Dean will discuss some of his work and approach to capturing capturing the night sky and landscape to create truly awe inspiring nightscape imagery.

  Evening Hands-on Practice
  9pm

  

  ABOUT: Two Adventurous Souls

  
  

  Brittany has been a wedding and portrait photographer for 16 years, 12 of them full-time. She began her career as a solo photographer under “Brittany Rae Photography,” with her husband Dean initially just assisting by carrying gear and holding light stands. Eventually, she handed him a camera—and he didn’t disappoint. Dean grew into a skilled photographer and now joins Brittany as a lead shooter for Two Adventurous Souls, traveling the world capturing weddings and adventures together.

  Brittany has served in leadership roles with the Maine Professional Photographers Association, including President, and was also a PPA council member. Most recently, she was President of NACE Maine, where she collaborated with state officials to help shape reopening plans for the events industry during the COVID shutdowns.

  Dean has spent the past seven years photographing landscapes across Maine and beyond. He’s a four-time Maine PPA Landscape Photographer of the Year and was most recently named Maine PPA Photographer of the Year. What began as a supportive role on Brittany’s wedding shoots turned into a passion, especially after seeing her night sky images from a class with Mike Taylor in 2014. That moment sparked Dean’s obsession with photographing the stars—now his work lives on as Wanderland Photographic, where he captures the beauty of the night sky and the natural world.

  
  

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• The Magic of the iPhone

  • When
    July 16, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    To be Announced

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  The Magic of the iPhone Camera

  Tillman Crane

  

  The best camera is the one you have with you.

  This may sound like heresy, but it is true. Most of us are rarely without our phone, and the camera in today’s iPhone is an excellent camera. Learning to use the camera and its features to its full capability may even make it your camera of choice.

  What is going on between your ears is more important than what is in your hands. You almost always have your iPhone with you. This class will help you put the two together.

  In this class, we will introduce how the iPhone camera functions. Topics may include:

  • Introduction to your iPhone
  • What it does and what it doesn’t do
  • Shooting modes: Portrait, Time Lapse, Live, Pano, Low Light
  • Lenses in the iPhone
  • File types: HEIC vs JPEG vs RAW
  • Storing and editing images
  • Popular apps: Hipstamatic, Tintype, Lightroom, Halide, Camera1, I Love Film

  Tillman Crane | Artist Bio (2025)

  How did an iPhone become my camera of choice when traveling these days?

  I am often asked this question, and the answer is simple: When digital cameras gave me more information in a negative than I could get with film. I make large (26x36”) platinum/palladium prints, which require negatives with a great amount of information.

  However, the switch to digital still left me with bags of equipment. I wanted to travel more lightly, with less gear, avoid “no tripod” restrictions, and still come home with quality images.

  The more I explored what the iPhone could do, the more I used it—and the better my images became. It hasn’t replaced my medium-format Fuji for professional work, but it has changed how I travel and photograph with joy.

  My career as a photographer spans many years. I focus on fine art platinum prints and teaching workshops in the U.S. and abroad.

  I’ve published five books: Tillman Crane/Structure (2001), Touchstones (2005), Odin Stone (2008), A Walk Along the Jordan (2009), and The Alchemy of Light (2016), with exhibitions accompanying each release.

  My platinum prints are included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art (Maine), Farnsworth Museum of Art, University of New England, Irish Museum of Modern Art, and others worldwide.

  I’ve also contributed to many book anthologies, including Workshop Stories, Photographic Alternative Processes, Maine Photographs: A History, and Why Photographs Work.

  Two professional milestones include a solo exhibit of 100 platinum prints at the National Art Museum of China and my induction into the inaugural class of the Artist Hall of Fame at the Alabama Center for the Arts.

  Even after all these years, I continue finding joy in making and teaching photography while living in beautiful Maine.

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• Mindful Photography at Grand Lookout

  • When
    September 27, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Grand Lookout

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  A Creative Nature Walk with Your Camera

  Join us for a guided photography class where creativity meets mindfulness in the heart of Vermont’s Manmade Natural Wonder. We’ll venture together to Grand Lookout—a serene trail with sweeping views surrounded by granite quarries taken back by nature, peaceful forest paths lined in birch trees, granite carvings and ferns peacefully coexisting. Along the way, I’ll encourage you to slow your pace, quiet your mind, and engage your senses.

  This isn’t about technical perfection. It’s about connecting—with nature, with your creative spirit, and with the present moment. We’ll explore how intentional, mindful photography can be a form of creative meditation.

  Whether you’re using a DSLR, phone, or film camera, this class is for anyone who wants to deepen their relationship with photography—and with themselves. You’ll leave with new images, but more importantly, a refreshed way of seeing.

  Perfect for: All levels looking to reconnect with the joy of the process. The walk will be more of a wander than a hike to include those of all fitness abilities. The optionto explore the other 30+ quarries on your own is encouraged, and a map of suggested locations will be shared. Let’s wander, notice, and create—one mindful frame at a time.

  The photo walk will be led by Jamie Proctor-Brassard and begins at 1p.m. on September 27, 2025. The rain date is September 28, 2025 at the same time. 

  

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