OM SYSTEM Photography Retreats
Join us for intimate and immersive hands-on photography retreats featuring OM SYSTEM ambassadors and experts as retreat leaders. These events are designed to be educational but, they are also about camaraderie with fellow photographers & OM SYSTEM ambassadors. While sharp lenses, image stabilization and computational technologies are important, these retreats are about more than gear. They are also about inspiration and about creating images with story and impact as “It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera...they are made with the eye, heart, and head”…Henri Cartier Bresson
Various retreats will focus on a plethora of topics such as: Macro and Close-Up Nature Photography, Night Photography, Bird Photography, Nature Photography, Landscape Photography, Travel Photography, Creative Photography, Photography featuring computational technologies
Annual OM SYSTEM Macro and Close-Up Photography Retreat May 2,3,4 2025 (Virginia)
https://www.omsystemretreats.com/nature-photography-retreat-spring-2025
Nature Photography (Birds, Bugs and Beautiful landscapes)
Bird photography, Bugs (Macro/Close-up Insect and Flora Photography), and Beautiful landscapes
(Creative Nature photography with creative compositions, frogs, mushrooms, focus stacking, patterns, cloud stacking, pareidolia, etc.).
In Depth instruction and inspiration with Four OM SYSTEM ambassadors: Frank Smith, Chris McGinnis, Tom Cuchara, and Lisa Cuchara
OM SYSTEM Kacho FugetsuNature Photography RETREAT on August 8, 9, 10 (Maine)
This workshop encompasses the Kacho Fugetsu, a six-century-old Japanese philosophy, directly translates to ‘Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon’
whilst also encapsulating the continuous self-discovery through the appreciation of the natural world.
Encapsulate the continuous self-discovery through the appreciation of the natural world with Five OM SYSTEM ambassadors:
Frank Smith, Emilie Talpin, Steve Morello, Tom Cuchara, and Lisa Cuchara
Annual OM SYSTEM Macro and Close-Up Photography Retreat Sept 5-8, 2025
https://www.omsystemretreats.com/macro-close-up-photography-retreat-2025
This retreat will focus on Macro and Close-Up Nature Photography with dedicated sessions on:
River Close-Up investigations (new), water drop refraction, in-camera focus stacking, True 1:1 macro, focus bracketing,
lightpainting using the Live Composite computational technology, plus additional sessions at the beach and at night.
Complete immersion into MACRO photography with SIX OM SYSTEM ambassadors:
Emilie Talpin, Steve Morello, Chris McGinnis, Eric Rock, Tom Cuchara, and Lisa Cuchara









