Winter Wonderland
Photography Retreat
Embrace a slower pace combined with intentional photography sessions on our beautiful farm!
January 23rd to 25th, 2025 | Inn at Mary’s Land Farm in Ellicott City, MD
Enhance Your Skills in a Serene and Cozy Environment
This Winter Wonderland Photography Retreat offers a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the serene beauty of Mary’s Land Farm while significantly enhancing your photographic skill set.
Over the planned weekend sessions, you will benefit from hands-on instruction, including one-on-one time with host Kristine Carter, focusing on everything from harnessing natural light and landscape composition to mastering fine-tuned post-production editing.
The retreat includes five meals and comfortable accommodations, providing a supportive, creative environment to truly connect with nature through your lens.
What You'll Gain Over the Weekend
Hands-On Sessions
Experience one-on-one time with the instructor, get out on the farm for practical shoots, and truly enjoy what nature has to offer in the winter light. Afterwards, learn lessons on tidying up your images and more!
Unique Setting
Embrace the slower pace and visual serenity of the farm during winter, providing unparalleled access to landscapes, historic structures, and farm animals for intentional photography sessions.
Tips & Tricks
Benefit from structured instruction covering everything from natural light and composition to fine-tuning post-production editing skills and the crucial process of image selection.
Meet Your Host
Fine Art Photography
My landscape, wildlife, and flora photographs are meditations in gratitude for nature’s healing beauty. Primarily self-taught, I came into photography in my forties while hiking in the mountains. My personal study of impressionistic paintings influences my post-production work. Coming from a theatre and creative writing background, I often discover stories, characters, and scenes in my photoshoots. I view my images as a dialogue between nature, the viewer, and the artist.
After moving to Floyd, Virginia six years ago, I fell in love with local farms. I began celebrating the loving care local farmers give their animals, plants, and land through her pictures. In these win/win partnerships, farmers incorporate images from the photoshoots in their marketing efforts, while I reserve printing rights.
Maggie Art Gallery displays a wide variety of my images. Floyd Center for the Arts has included my work in several themed shows. Floyd Chamber of Commerce showcases my local landscape photography on their website’s homepage banner. Floyd Artisan Trail has featured my photography on their marketing brochures two years in a row. Virginia Tourism grants have funded some of my farm and venue photography.
