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Great Bear Rainforest Videography workshop with Pat Morrow

Each year we have many guests joining us with their digital video cameras. Now is the perfect chance to explore fantastic wilderness settings and learn more about this exciting medium with an award winning expert, Pat Morrow.

In this workshop, we’ll learn basic shooting and editing techniques that will enhance our ability to tell a story on videotape. We’ll document fishing bears and wolves, native people’s villages, and beach walks on the rugged outer coast. Each evening we’ll download our footage into a computer editing program and at the end of the week take home a group video that sums up our adventures. Additionally, Pat & Baiba will give nightly screenings of some of the award- winning films they have shot or produced.

Last autumn, assisted by Farlyn Campbell of the Columbia III family, Pat spent several weeks in the Great Bear Rainforest area working alongside wildlife film specialists Jeff and Sue Turner. The Turners are producing a documentary about the life cycle of the salmon for the BBC Planet Earth Series, and Pat shot a "making of" film that will accompany theirs, for broadcast in 2008.

Pat has given photo and video workshops in diverse locations, from the Purcell Wilderness (Ptarmigan Tours Ski Operator) area in winter to the backcountry of the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park (Thompson University College, Kamloops) to whale-watching onboard Island Roamer in Johnstone Strait (Emily Carr College), and the Coast Range near Whistler, B.C. (Whistler Centre for the Arts).

We offer directions to Bella Bella, our point of departure.

Pat and Baiba Morrow are a peripatetic creative team, based at the edge of the Purcell Range in Wilmer, British Columbia. They are well known for their documentation of mountain cultures and adventures through their photography, video and film work. Their deep desire to search out and document remote, wild places has led them on assignments and expeditions to all seven continents, averaging six months a year in the field for the past 30 years. Together they have won eight national magazine awards. Their books include Beyond Everest: Quest for the Seven Summits; Himalayan Passage; The Yukon; and Footsteps in the Clouds - Kangchenjunga a Century Later.

In 1987 Pat received the Order of Canada in recognition of his achievement of being the first to climb the highest mountain on all seven continents (documented in book, magazine articles and video). At the Banff Festival of Mountain Films in 1990, he was honoured with the Summit of Excellence award for his work in documenting the mountain experience.

Over the last twelve years Pat and Baiba have expanded their tools of the trade to include video and film, and are now working exclusively in that medium. They have worked on more than 50 mountain films for such broadcasters as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Outdoor Life Network, ESPN, and the Canadian International Development Agency. Their self-produced documentary, "The Magic Mountain" has won three awards at international mountain film festivals to date.

In addition to six seasons of prescreening duties for the Banff Mountain Film Festival, Pat has sat on the film jury of four international mountain film festivals: Banff, X 2, Vancouver, and Gratz, Austria.

2008 Videography workshop with Pat Morrow
September 29 - October 5 Great Bear Rainforest	6 nights	$2,950.00 CDN	Approx. $3,085.00 U.S.

Trip size limited to 8 - 10 participants. Our trips are all inclusive from the point of departure. Trip prices are in Canadian dollars. U.S. prices are approximate and will be based on current exchange rate at the time of booking. Rates do not include the Canadian 5% G.S.T.

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