Photo credit: Autumn Carolynn

Learn and practice in a small class with individual attention.

A course designed for those interested in taking the best possible pictures while traveling! In this class, the instructor, Autumn Carolynn, and you will be go through the necessary functions one might need to capture images while on the go. You will go through practical exercises, have hands-on training (remember to bring your camera) - your cellphone camera is fine), and learn a few tips along the way.

This class is limited to 10 people so Autumn can assist each person individually. You will learn about aspects of your camera and how to use it to its best advantage.

This class will be relaxed and interactive. Complete beginners are welcome and intermediate photographers will gain from the individual input during the exercises.

Please note: Norway House does not offer refunds. If you are unable to attend a class, please consider giving your tickets to a friend.

About the instructor:

Autumn Carolynn is the author of Traveling in Wonder, a memoir of her travels. The esteemed journal Kirkus Reviews has this to say about Autumn’s book:

A Midwest-based author shares her experiences traveling the world as a student, flight attendant, and travel agent in this memoir that includes her travel photography.

In 2013, while attending college in the Midwest, Carolynn took her final semester abroad in England. Since classes met only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, she proceeded to take trips throughout Europe via long weekends. This book is a collection of her musings on 15 excursions she took that semester. She includes additional entries on countries in Asia, South America, and Africa as well as various U.S. states that she toured post-college as a flight attendant and later as a corporate travel agent. Each journal entry begins with a summary page highlighting, among other details, both logistical and philosophical lessons learned during her trip. Within these pieces, she also mentions personal issues, including trauma from being bullied as a young girl to being nervous about both romantic and friend relationships, eventually coming to realize, through therapy, that these anxieties, in part, were fueling her desire to constantly travel. In 2022, Carolynn went with her husband to Costa Rica, where they celebrated six years together and she achieved her goal of visiting 30 countries before she turned 30. In her memoir, Carolynn, who now runs a business selling her travel photography, includes lovely examples of her work and striking destination descriptions, from diving into New Zealand glowworm caves to witnessing “the cotton candy sky blend into the waves below” back in Minnesota. She’s refreshingly forthright about her insecurities and offers an inspiring message to be open to new people and experiences, for example by staying in hostels: “It didn’t matter who you were, where you were going, or why you were there—each person was ready for an adventure and almost always invited everyone else to go with them. It was the [most] perfect example of inclusivity I’d ever experienced in my life.”