photographer's formulary workshop?

[mandym]

Hi all!

Just wondering if anyone has attended a workshop at Photographer's Formulary in Montana. I'm specifically interested in the Alt large format techniques workshop this July.

If you have attended a workshop at the formulary what was your impression of the course, location, establishment?

Thanks for your help!
Mandy

 

[Nicole]

Hi Mandy, we don't "see" you often on apug so please let me take this opportunity to say hello and welcome you.

I can't help you with the Montana workshop but know there will be a series of interesting workshops at the Foto-3 Conference in Fort Collins, Colorado this year.

Here's the link direct to the Foto-3 workshops : http://www.foto3-2008.info/workshops.html

How was Paris?

Best wishes,
Nicole

 

[mandym]

thanks

Thanks for the welcome Nicole.

I have been a member of apug for a few years but haven't taken full advantage of the vast community. I hope to check in a bit more often.

I actually attended the first apug conference in Toronto in 2006 and really enjoyed meeting some of the community and learning a few new things. I will definitely consider foto3.

Paris was lovely. I love seeing a new place with my cameras, never an uninspired moment.

Thanks again,
Mandy

Hi Mandy, we don't "see" you often on apug so please let me take this opportunity to say hello and welcome you.

I can't help you with the Montana workshop but know there will be a series of interesting workshops at the Foto-3 Conference in Fort Collins, Colorado this year.

Here's the link direct to the Foto-3 workshops : http://www.foto3-2008.info/workshops.html

How was Paris?

Best wishes,
Nicole

 

[Gay Larson]

Mandy, I took a lith workshop last fall at the Formulary and I loved it. The Facility was great as far as darkroom work and the food wonderful. I stayed in the old farmhouse so I can't speak for the newer rooms but no one complained. I would go there again as I think they put on great workshops. Hope this helps.
Gay

 

[Don12x20]

The Formulary is a superb venue to take an alt process workshop (or even Silver printing - they have a huge darkroom with many enlargers plus 2 other darkrooms for alt processes).

I've taken two workshops over the past four years -- Both with Arentz. The last was the Masters Pt workshop last August. Worth every penny.

Get in early and stay onsite -- either in the B&B rooms over the garage(I've always stayed there). The old house (the owners live in a new one ...the old one is not "old" from an East-Coast perspective.)
The Meals are cooked by the Owner's wife Lynn, and let me tell you that you are in for a gourmet treat. The meals a fabulous. and the conversation during meals is phenomenal.

As for location- its midway between Kalispell and Missoula. Rent a car if you fly in (or have them send the van to pick up up -- you really don't otherwise need a car.).

not to scare you but last August during Dick's workshop I stayed in one of the rooms facing the wilderness to the west. It was during the big fire(Seeley Lake) just to the south (20 miles S )...about 2 am in the morning I was awakened by some loud snuffling sounds. I went out on the landing and shined my flashlight down into the woods from the second floor landing to see a large bear -- probably driven out of the woods by the fire and moving northward. That morning there were plenty of tracks. You'll also see a large herd of deer on their front lawn during the days -- we saw 3 fawns with mothers last summer every day. You are sandwiched in the valley between two wilderness areas with tall mountains...the only ribbon of civilization is the pavement and a few isolated houses (like Bud's Formulary workshop) in tiny (not really) towns....

Bud and Lynn are just about the nicest hosts you could ever hope for at a workshop venue. (And Bud collects stones for a hobby. You'll see his collection of pebbles as you drive in. He owns his own low-boy trailer to move them....

Just don't wait to register -- the overflow rooms once the B&B and House fill .....are 3 miles down the road at a former Super8 motel. then you definitely will need a car.

 

[Don12x20]

And when you go to the Formulary, take a look at the building it is housed in....it was once the truck repair shed for a logging firm that was formerly located on the site. Look up in the ceiling in the dining area -- you'll see a I-beam that was once the chain hoist. (ask Bud to point it out). Bud did all the conversion work in the building by himself. Quite the craftsman.

Oh, and on some nights late you can hear the wolves to the east up in the wilderness. Never saw them.

 

[RoBBo]

I had never really looked closely at that Foto3 conference til just now, Peter LeGrand is one of my teachers and a good friend, might have to ask him a bit about it, I've been meaning to get to Ft Collins sometime this summer anyways.

 

[CRhymer]

Hello Mandy,

I took the emulsion making workshop at the Formulary in June, 2007 - great accommodation, food, location, darkroom, hospitality and price. It is also an opportunity to pick up any chemicals, etc. to save shipping and hazmat fees. It is good to book early for the bed and breakfast, since it tends to be fully booked first. Oh, yes, Ron's course was also top notch.

Cheers,
Clarence

 

[mandym]

great feedback!

Thanks so much for taking the time to give me your impression of the place. Sounds like just the getaway/photo adventure that I need right now!

Cheers,
Mandy

 

[magic823]

I've taken three workshops there (Pyro, Dan Burkholder's Digital Neg., and Sandy King's Carbon). The location is beautiful, the rooms very cozy (I've stayed at the B&B, the old house and once in my RV), the darkrroms are large and well equipment, food is 'to die for', and Bud and Lynn are two of the nicest people I know. Be sure to visit Garnet (old ghost town) and/or Glasier NP.

I hope to get back there this summer for one.