The event in October 2019, “Alpine Photography with Philip Blair,” of the Leica Akademie workshop series, was a success. We had a full house of 12 participants, plus myself and Nathan Kellum from Leica Store Bellevue. The format followed a combination of indoor lecture, discussion and instruction, plus one day of shooting up at Mt. Rainier National Park.

The indoor instruction was held on Friday and Sunday, at the Hyatt Bellevue. Saturday’s shoot was spectacular, with mostly clear skies and dramatic clouds. Thank you to everyone who joined and also thanks to the folks at Leica Store Bellevue for their support.

The color cover photo of Mt. Rainier was shot with the Leica SL and the Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16-35mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH lens. The black and white landscape shots also posted here were all shot by me as well, with the 24MP APS-C Leica CL camera.