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What Can I Do for You?

Inspiring adventures in the Great Outdoors and encouraging others to live their most fulfilling life—with or without a camera in hand

People standing on a raft at Lee's Ferry in the Grand Canyon National Park, AZ

Field-Based Workshops

Help you become a better, more confident photographer on co-ed and all-women’s Sheography trips

Colleen Miniuk standing at a podium during a speaking engagement

Speaking Engagements

Deliver an educational, inspirational talk at your camera club or organization

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Online Image Critiques/Reviews

Offer feedback on your images, portfolio, and/or processing techniques

Bob Miniuk sits in front of computer during Colleen's online sessions
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Coaching & Mentoring

Turn your photography dreams and goals into reality through one-on-one online sessions

Dear Bubbles

Provide advice to your burning questions about photography and the creative life

Books/eBooks

Inspire outdoor adventures through my award-winning guidebooks, instructional eBooks, and exciting adventure travel titles

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Webinars & Online Events

Inspire new photographic ideas and approaches—without you needing to leave your house!

Photographic Prints

Beautify your home, magazine, calendar, or your organization’s promotional materials with a printed or digital photograph from my online Gallery

Colleen with her Sheographers in Death Valley National Park, CA

Other Ideas?

Let’s talk about how I can support your ideas and projects! Contact me at colleen@colleenminiuk.com! I’d love to help!

Colleen Miniuk with her stand-up paddleboard on the Colorado River near Moab, UT

Meet Colleen

Hi there! I’m Colleen J. Miniuk (pronounced “Min-ick”). I use the pronouns she/her.

I’m a full-time photographer, author, publisher, instructor, speaker, stand-up paddleboarder, and river rafter. Besides being passionate about the Great Outdoors and outdoor communications, I am fluent in sarcasm, in love with bubbles, and not ashamed for eating pie for breakfast. I reside in Chandler, AZ, on the ancestral homeland of the Hohokam, in the Colorado River watershed.

 

Most Recent Work on Instagram

View fullsize I picked up my head from the arduous task of proofreading my “So Said the River” manuscript just long enough to learn it’s World Book Day today! Hooray for books! Hooray for learning and expanding our horizons! My adventure memoir
View fullsize “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Happy Earth Day! Let’s make every day “Earth Day” and t
View fullsize It’s a wrap! Just finished leading the inaugural New River Gorge Sheography workshop in, you guessed it, New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia. What a “wild and wonderful” experience we had in this gorge-ous la
View fullsize I drove down into the New River Gorge with the intent of exploring with my camera the rapids, rock and water, maybe dogwood or redbud blooms too. I ended up standing under a railroad trestle bridge in the rain delightfully losing all two marbles in m
View fullsize In early March, I had the great pleasure and privilege to lead a five-day photography workshop with the Garden Club of America’s Photographing Study Group around Moab, UT. What an inquisitive and spirited group we had as we explored red rock co
View fullsize Happy first Wednesday of April! Which means it’s time for a new dose of Dear Bubbles!   This month, Mike asks, “Do you have an opinion about giving away images? Should art be shared, given, or sold? Does it matter if photography
View fullsize If you’re planning a trip to Acadia this year, you won’t want to miss my recent interview about “Overlooked Acadia National Park” with my dear friend Rob Taylor (@2traveldads ) on his awesome 2TravelDads Podcast. Have a listen
View fullsize What an incredibly exciting and inspiring week it was last week at the Out of Big Sur conference! It was a joy and privilege to teach with the amazing Franka Gabler (@franka_gabler ) and alongside all the talented instructors. Between the field sess
View fullsize Today is World Water Day, a day the United Nations designated to raise awareness and to show appreciate for freshwater sources. Water gives life! How does it support yours? From where do you get your drinking water (beyond your faucet)? Is a clean a
View fullsize Happy first Wednesday of March! Which means there’s a new post on Dear Bubbles! This month, Bill asks “As a photographer who is reluctant to depart radically from what I see out in nature, I am a bit worried about the flood of artificial
View fullsize Just finished my weekend-long Wilderness First Responder certification! I passed! Thanks so much to my incredible instructors—Pete Walka & José Miguel Itarra Escala—NOLS, the Flagstaff Field Institute, and my classmates for a f
View fullsize Today is my 17th (!!!) personal Independence Day, a day I celebrate like my birthday. On February 28, 2007, I walked (no, skipped) out of the grey cubical walls of corporate America and into more beautiful views of soaring walls in the Great Outdoors