Nature Photography Workshops
Join world-class photographers and photography coaches Tony Sweet and Susan Milestone for exciting explorations of beautiful and interesting locations during Visual Artistry nature photography workshops.
Tony Sweet and Susan Milestone’s Visual Artistry Workshops offer photographers of any level a transformative, immersive experience.
An immersive photography experience
Whether you want to advance your skills, seek your next portfolio shots, or explore specific styles like infrared, pano, or long-exposure, these deep-dive workshops allow you to slow down and focus on your photography with help from two masters of the craft.
This is the most powerful way to learn.
Join Us for
New mastery of advanced photographic techniques
Tony and Susan are celebrated for their artistry in these styles and they have no secrets.
When you attend a Visual Artistry Workshop, you get unlimited access to their decades of artistry, techniques, and experience.
Opportunities for new portfolio centerpieces
As much instruction as you desire
Your priorities and goals take center stage as we focus on helping you capture the images you envision.
Through world-class instruction, meticulous logistics, expert knowledge of each stunning location, and a total commitment to your personal photographic journey, these Visual Artistry Workshops from Tony Sweet and Susan Milestone offer you an incredible opportunity to advance your creative vision and photography skills.
This Year’s Workshop Locations
Visual Artistry Workshops with Tony and Susan offer ultimate access to unbelievable—and often secret—locations. From the dusty trails of the Badlands to the mossy streams of the Great Smokies to old growth live oaks in Charleston’s Southern plantations, Tony and Susan’s decades of exploration and personal experience in these incredible locations open opportunities for perfect lighting on the most engaging scenery you’ve ever seen.
Tony and Susan personally scout each location 5 days in advance to ensure seamless logistics and access to exclusive locations, ensuring photo sessions free of delays or distractions and prioritizing a captivating photography experience.
Great Smoky Mountains Winter Workshop
January 30 – Feb 3, 2026
Limit 8
Take advantage of unbelievable winter scenery, cloud cover, fog, and hoar frost during the least visited season at the most popular national park in America.
Includes incredible opportunities for landscapes, long-exposure, sunrises and sunsets at locations like Tremont and Greenbriar.
Charleston, South Carolina: Plantations, French Quarter, Cemeteries and Ruins, Bull’s Island
April 5 – 10, 2026
Limit 8
Explore the coasts, plantations, and historic districts and gardens of one of America’s oldest cities.
Features a private, charter boat sunrise trip to Bull’s Island (weather permitting).
Great Smoky Mountains Infrared Workshop
May 3 – 7, 2026
Limit 8
Explore America’s most visited national park with our 20-year veterans, who offer unprecedented access to the best locations for infrared photography.
Includes incredible landscapes, overlooks, and river locations including Tremont and Greenbriar.
Badlands National Park Workshop
September 20 – 24, 2026
Limit 8
Stark landscapes, colorful rock formations, and ever-changing scenery and cloud cover make this workshop an incredible experience for landscape, scenic, black-and-white, infrared, and abstract photography.
Includes explorations of locations in Fossil Trail, Norbeck Pass, and Sage Creek Rim Road.
The White Mountains of New Hampshire
Oct. 4-8, 2026
Limit 8
This workshop is all about the incredible autumn color palette, the best in America. The reflections of fall colors in streams and rivers, colorful overlooks, large ponds, birch forests, and tree-lined gorges are the subjects of this very accessible photo workshop.
What to Expect from Our Workshops
A typical day includes:
Sunrise Photo Session
Capture the most varied color palette of the day with soft, pre-dawn violets, purples, blues and greens, pinks, and tangerines with light cloud cover and clear skies at locations with water reflections, pastoral scenes, old growth trees and bushes, and rugged mountain profiles.
Photographer’s brunch
After the fireball has risen in the sky, we invite our small group to join us as we retreat from our morning session for a leisurely brunch filled with “apres-shoot” conversation.
Get to know your fellow photographers and learn from their personal photography journeys as you pursue your own path.
Early afternoon photo critique
After a refreshing shower, nap, and time for your selection edit and photo processing, we invite you to a classroom session for constructive, sensitive feedback on the group’s morning session photos.
Each photographer is invited to submit 2-3 photos for helpful, supportive critique that can provide immediate feedback and ideas to try during the following workshop photo sessions.
These photo review sessions are an invaluable way to explore the creative vision of your fellow workshop photographers and see ways to amplify the strengths Tony and Susan see in everyone’s work.
Golden Hour photo session
In late afternoon, we will reconvene and move to our afternoon photo location with enough time to discover and compose the scenes and prepare to adapt to rapidly changing lighting conditions.
After the final session of the day, you are free for some alone time, dinner and/or drinks with companions, or further post-processing of the day’s harvest.