 Finding Your Photographic Path
Finding Your Vision: A Photographer’s Path Forward is a three-part speaker series focused on one of the most important and most personal questions in photography: what are you truly trying to say with your work?
Developing a photographic vision isn’t a single moment of clarity. It’s an evolving process shaped by curiosity, commitment, and the willingness to take your work seriously over time.
In this series, Murray Livingston Photographic Projects & Storytelling: Scotland’s Forgotten Ancient Forest explores how long-term projects give direction and meaning to your photography, offers a real-world example of how vision develops through sustained exploration and narrative.)
John Barclay’s Master Your Craft & Honor Your Vision bridges the gap between skill and expression, showing how technical growth and personal vision must evolve together and how honoring your own way of seeing leads to more authentic work.
Josh Cripps’ Just Do It: How I Learned to Take Myself Seriously As a Photographer brings the conversation into action, addressing the mindset shifts required to move from hesitation to commitment and to fully step into your identity as a photographer.
Together, these sessions form a progression, from defining direction, to refining craft, to taking ownership of your work, providing a framework for building a photographic vision that is both intentional and sustainable.
This series is designed for photographers who are ready to move beyond uncertainty, commit to their work, and take meaningful steps toward the images, and body of work, they truly want to create.
- John Barclay -Â December 9th at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET
- Murray Livingston - December 13th at 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ETÂ
- Joshua Cripps -Â December 16th at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET
Want to join us LIVE? Be sure to register for the Zoom session after purchase.
Want to watch on-demand? Each session will hit your NPC account the morning after it is presented LIVE.
Nature Photography Classes offer a unique opportunity to hear from and interact with people that rarely speak with audiences and are considered some of the best photography educators in the world. Â
 John Barclay teaches "Master Your Craft & Honor Your Vision"
Master Your Craft & Honor Your Vision
LIVE session on December 9th at 4:00 PM PT / 7:00 PM ET or on-demand beginning December 10th.
John Barclay’s Master Your Craft & Honor Your Vision bridges the gap between skill and expression, showing how technical growth and personal vision must evolve together—and how honoring your own way of seeing leads to more authentic work.
Bio:
John Barclay is an award wining freelance photographer based in Bucks County, PA. John is a passionate photographer, enthusiastic workshop leader and inspirational speaker, presenting his programs to audiences around the world. John is an Ambassador for Maven Filters and Lensbaby, and, well known, for his Topaz Webinars. John’s work has been published in a number of books and magazines, including the highly esteemed Lenswork Magazine, and is treasured by a number of private collectors. Recently, John was the recipient of an excellence award from B&W Magazine, had his B&W Aurora folio featured in Lenswork. John was chosen by Dewitt Jones to participate in his www.healingimages.org program. You can learn more about John, his work, and, view his workshop schedule at www.barclayphoto.com
Murray Livingston teaches "Photographic Projects & Storytelling: Scotland’s Forgotten Ancient Forest"
Murray Livingston
Photographic Projects & Storytelling: Scotland’s Forgotten Ancient Forest
LIVE session on December 13th at 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET or on-demand beginning December 14th.
In this talk, professional nature and landscape photographer Murray Livingston shares insights from his ongoing multi-year project, This Land Remembers, a unique photographic storytelling odyssey exploring Scotland’s last remaining remnants of the Ancient Caledonian Forest. He discusses how long-term projects give direction and meaning to your photography and offers a real-world example of how vision develops through sustained exploration and narrative.
Along with stories and images from Scotland, Murray dives into the benefits of developing long-term projects, how to find and photograph concepts that are unique to your creative vision, and why we should harness the power of images to communicate ideas.
Images from Murray’s project have been published in Outdoor Photography Magazine, a solo exhibition entitled "Intimate Woodlands" at Gallery Photiq, and also featured in the Trees for Life’s 2026 calendar, a Scottish Rewilding Charity.Â
Bios:
Murray is a full-time professional landscape and nature photographer, educator, and workshop leader with more than 10 years of image making experience. Murray photographs all aspects of the landscape through long-term photographic projects in Scotland, where he is based most of the year in a self-built campervan, and his home country of South Africa. He is a deep thinker with interests in adventure & conservation, both of which he strives to communicate and teach through a deeply contemplative and introspective approach to photography.Â
Joshua Cripps teaches "Just Do It: How I Became a Real Photographer"
Just Do It: How I Became a Real Photographer
LIVE session on December 16th at 4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET or on-demand beginning December 17th.
What separates photographers who embrace their vision from those who leave their best ideas locked away? It isn't raw talent or expensive gear. It’s the willingness to stop waiting for permission and take action.
In this candid, inspiring talk, I share my journey as a photographer from the early days of self-doubt through the pivotal moments when I realized my creative ideas were worth taking seriously. Through stories from the field, I share pivotal moments of confronting fear, embracing risk, and turning crazy concepts into reality.
Whether you're struggling to find your artistic voice or waiting for the "right time" to launch a passion project, this presentation is your call to action. You’ll walk away inspired to take your ideas seriously and start building the creative life you want.
Bio:Â
Joshua Cripps is a renowned landscape photographer who has garnered worldwide acclaim for his breathtaking images of our planet’s wild places. His photos have been published by the likes of National Geographic, NASA, CNN, The Sun, and Nikon Global.
Josh grew up in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and has been exploring the “Range of Light” for most of his life. Since 2015, Josh has made his home in the Eastern Sierra, one of the most spectacular and photogenic mountain landscapes in the world.
Josh is one of today’s most sought-after photography educators. He leads photo tours and speaks at conferences around the world.
