The Southern Yorke Peninsula gives us the conditions most night photographers search for, genuinely dark skies and powerful landscapes to match. This workshop is fully organised and all-inclusive, so you can arrive, settle in, and focus purely on creating.

Welcome to the Southern Yorke Peninsula, a remote and rugged stretch of coastline where isolation, stillness, and dark skies come together in a powerful way. This is a place of wind-shaped cliffs, historic lighthouses, salt lakes, shipwrecks, quiet country towns, and long nights under an expansive sky.

This six-night astrophotography workshop is built around creating intentional nightscape images in wild coastal environments. From secluded beaches and dramatic cliffs to jetties and remote headlands, we’ll work across a variety of foregrounds that allow the Milky Way to become part of the landscape rather than the sole subject.

October 7-13 places us right on the new moon, during one of Australia’s clearest seasons. As one Milky Way arch sets and the next begins to rise, we’ll have the rare opportunity to photograph both the winter Milky Way arch and the early summer arch, rich with emission nebulae. There is also always the quiet possibility of Aurora Australis on the southern horizon.

This workshop is technically focused, creatively grounded, and intentionally paced.

I’m Jason, your photography guide and host for this journey. This workshop is limited to a maximum 4:1 participant ratio, supported by two dedicated drivers and a local guide. This ensures plenty of space, flexibility, and one-on-one guidance during both shooting and editing sessions.

Whether you’re refining your workflow or pushing creatively into new territory, you’ll receive personal feedback and support every step of the way.

Highlights of the Workshop

• Photograph the Milky Way over remote Southern Yorke Peninsula coastlines, including cliffs, lighthouses, jetties, and secluded beaches

• Capture both the winter Milky Way arch and the early summer arch during the same workshop, using panoramic techniques

• Create refined tracked-sky and single-exposure foreground composites in rugged coastal environments

• Experience camaraderie, stillness, and reflection under some of South Australia’s darkest skies, alongside like-minded photographers

• Sunrise and sunset landscape sessions with guidance on composition, light, and workflow

• Optional drone photography where conditions and locations allow

• Learn a complete post-processing workflow, including stacking, panorama stitching, and advanced night-sky editing techniques designed to take your astrophotography to the next level