After a successful workshop in Jiangnan last year,
FUJIFILM X-Photographer, William Chua will be conducting another photography workshop in Jiangnan (China) again

He will team up with Albert Lim (Halo International Photography) again who is based in China to lead participants to the picturesque Jiangnan.
They will guide the participants along for photography and there will also be critique sessions
to help participants improve on their photos. A briefing will be done prior to the trip.

Workshop is open to participants of all levels, inexperienced and experienced alike, any cameras users… even iphone..
Non Photographing Companions are welcome too..

Fujifilm will be providing selected cameras and lenses for loan throughout this workshop.(For each Individual Participant)

Details of the trip will be as follows

May 22 Day 1: Arrival – Hangzhou
16:45 Depart Singapore Changi Airport for Hangzhou Aiport
22:15 Pick up at Hangzhou International Airport. Depart for Zhuji
23:35 Check in to Hotel

May 23 Day 2: Wuxie National Park (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included)

May 24 Day 3: Lishui (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included)
Flower fields
Overnite on houseboat

May 25 Day 4 Xiaozhoushan (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included)
Morning shoot of Misty Lake
Transfer to Xiaozhoushan for terrace fields and exploring Village

May 26 Day 5 : Xiaozhoushan – Zhuji (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included)
Sunrise shoot at terrace field
transfer to Freshwater pearl capital of the world, Shanxiahu
Pearl farm visit (pearl harvesting, factory visit)

May 27 Day 6: Zhuji – Dongbai Lake – Departure (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included)
Dongbai Lake
Rapeseed flower fields
Thousand Pillar House

Leave Hangzhou, and back to Singapore on May 28th Morning

The itinerary is subjected to changes

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Pricing (per pax)

Max group size 12. Min group size 5.
• Early bird registration (March 31 and before)
        o SGD $1188 twin sharing basis
        o Add SGD $275 for single room occupancy
• Regular sign up (Apr 1 and after)
       o SGD $1388 twin sharing basis
       o Add SGD $275 for single room occupancy

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The price includes:
1. Hotel accommodation per itinerary
2. All internal transfer on air-conditioned transport per itinerary
3. All meals per itinerary
4. Entrance fee for all places of interest per itinerary
5. Daily mineral water

The pricing does not include:
1. Airfares from Singapore to Hangzhou Airport and back (Scoot)
2. Personal and travel insurances throughout the journey
3. Personal expenses (Drinks, Alcohol, etc)
4. Guide and Driver tips (Tips are not compulsory but appreciated)
5. Visa fees if any
6. All others not mentioned in inclusions

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Recommended Flights

Scoot Airlines TZ108, Depart SIN 16:45 22 May, Arrive HGH 21:35 22 May
Scoot Airlines TZ107, Depart HGH 22:45 27 May, Arrive SIN 03:30 28 May
Tiger Air also offer the same flights (codeshare with Scoot, same plane)

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Check out some of our photos last year

https://www.williamchua.com/blog/jiangnan-photography-workshop-completed/

And some of the comments by the participants last year..

Hi William and Albert,

Thanks to both of your for all the hard work and effort to make this trip so successful. Much appreciated:)) Although this is our first time participating in such a photography workshop trip, we find that it is very well organised and is very enjoyable. The location, the food and most of all the people are just fantastic.

Most of all I must compliment both of you being so generous to share the your photography skills in without much reservations, which nowadays it is not easy find such people who are willing to share their skills and talent.

Although this is my first time using a camera on a trip, with guidance and advise from William, I find that using the FUJI XT (which is the 1st Fuji camera which my hubby bought) is very easy to handle, especially the appreciation on the black and white images.

Well done guys:) Keep it up:))

Warmest Regards
Hazel Leong

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Hi William and Albert,

Thank you so much for organizing the Jiangnan trip. My experience with landscape photography is about one shot one kill. But both of you have taught me how we can slice up the scene, be observant and wait for the right moment to capture the scene with different perspectives. What really impresses me is that scene that seem ordinary to me becomes so extraordinary when William and Albert shoot it. Though the weather ain’t great and trees aren’t yellow; something which we have no control over nature, both of you have taught us how to make do with the situation and get good shots out of it.

This is my first time experiencing street photography. Ain’t easy but William has shown us how he does it at ease and every shot is simply jaw dropping.

Michelin class food, great interactions with team members and I truly appreciate the critiques session. Overall a fantastic trip which I would recommend to my photo khakis.

With regards to the camera, I am a great Canon supporter 🙂 However, I’ve fallen in love with Fuji camera so much that towards the last few days of the trip, I ain’t using much of my Canon camera. I love the compactness, ease of use and the black and white photo is simply awesome! Definitely looking forward to get the Fuji camera 🙂

cheers
Serene

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Hi William and Albert,

Thank you for organizing the Jiangnan trip, this is the first time I have traveled to China and I really enjoyed this trip a lot. Landscape and street photography have not been an area I am strong in, and I really learnt a lot about landscape photography and street photography during this trip. Thank you for bringing us to great places with great food worthy of Michelin level. And also well organized skills when faced with unforeseen situation (the landslide). Great fun during the entire trip. Thank you to both your help in my luggage issue and my request to change rooms, I hope i did not cause too much trouble for both of you.

Thank you to everyone too, great to know all of you during this trip.

This is also my first time using the Fuji XT-1 and I am really blown away by the colours and black & white photos shot by this camera. I have tried doing some black & white photos before but each time I find that the “wow” factor was missing and by using the Fuji XT-1, the quality of the photos really blown me away. I am definitely gonna invest in a Fuji XT-2 soon. Hope to see more trips coming up (hopefully we can see trips to North Korea, Tibet in the future :P)

Regards,
Hui Ying

(ps.. HUi Ying has bought the xt2 upon return from the trip :p)

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This is our first trip to CHina after a long while (too long). What an eye opener in our first Photo Trip. What have I learned: Black and White are the new beautiful.
THough weather conditions were unpredictable, yet you managed to run it around by making the best use of whats available and helping us look at images with a different perspective. When ? at the boat house, fog wasn’t present as would imagine, and at the terrace field , the rain and mist came and went.
What I like; the food, it was to is like feasting on royal food, hard to to now adjust back to our simple fare.
Also, I really appreciate that both of you shared your photo secrets openly. Most people are quite guarded.
Albert, you went out of the way to bring us to location shoot through dirt tracks and hacking through overgrown grass. Thanks so much. Your car was covered with mud !
Overall : Enjoyed the trip and great company. So glad, we all could blend in and get together well.
More please of such trips

Ai Lin

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Finally got time to write my review of the trip as I got stucked on a plane due to flight delay
First and foremost, thanks to William and Albert for organizing such a wonderful trip.

What I liked most about this trip is the scenery and tasty food we have along the journey.
The boat experience is unique and wonderful.
The sampan with the mountain as background could easily by the best photo for this trip
Although the weather may not be the best for us, but i still have a great time learning

There isn’t much things to improve as it is considered a well organized trip.
Maybe the only thing that I could complain is the lack of supper . LOL

Lastly I have to thank ALbert for the jacket that helped to keep me warm throughout the trip
Hope to hear from you people again

Woon WK

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The Fuji XT 10 performed superbly. Thanks to Fuji and William.

Ang CK

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About William Chua

William Chua is an international award winning photographer based in Singapore. He does predominantly weddings, travel, landscapes, and wildlife photography
He has garnered awards from IPA (New York), MPA (London), PX3 (Paris), PDN, and the Black and White Spider Awards

His works have been published in various publications (including SilverKris Magazine, Asian Geographic, Geographical Magazine (UK) , PDN Magazine, Lux Magazine etc)
His works are also represented by Modern Art Etc, based in Los Angeles, California for sale as Fine Art Prints
Having led photography workshops to China, Morocco, Mongolia, Scandinavia, Iceland, Bhutan and Africa, and given numerous talks on photography, he hopes to be able to help photo enthusiasts take their photography to the next level.