Protect Your Photos: Backup Made Easy
Luck is not a backup strategy! The drive that stores your photos is on borrowed time. If it fails today, will you be able to recover your photos quickly and easily? Or will you be facing a complicated and expensive process that may not even work? This workshop will help you solve that problem.
Never Lose a Photo again
2026 | $115
One 90 minute session online. The session will begin at 8 PM EST. It will be recorded and made available to registered participants for 60 days. Tuition is non-refundable.
You don’t need to be a computer expert to keep your photos safe. You just need a good plan and some regular maintenance—and you can’t afford to put it off. Rich will show you how to build a strong backup solution to keep your photos safe and accessible. It’s easier than you think—but you need to do it BEFORE disaster strikes than AFTER, when you can’t do anything about it, and you’ve lost irreplaceable photos. Your photos represent irreplaceable memories and countless hours of time, travel, and money. If you want to take better care of them, this class is for you. And if you don’t know how fragile digital photos are, this class is REALLY for you!
Demos are done on the Mac but the same approach will work with Windows.
This class is for photographers who
- Want to protect their photos without becoming tech experts
- Don’t currently have a solid backup plan
- Have experienced (or fear) data loss
- Care deeply about preserving their work and memories
Meet Your Instructor
Rich Seiling
Rich Seiling’s passion for capturing light and beauty with photography has led him on a series of adventures that have shaped his vision and view of the craft. From a stint at The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite as an assistant curator, to his pioneering work in digital printmaking, founding of a leading fine art printing studio, and 22 years living in and photographing the Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada, Rich has deeply explored the vision and craft of photography while continuing to express his own vision.
He learned photography in the darkroom, seeking to make prints with the rich tonal scale exemplified by the West Coast traditions of photography. But his frustration with color processes lead him to explore digital photography starting in the early 1990s.
Combining his darkroom knowledge with digital tools led to a process for making color prints of museum quality that pushed the process to new heights. His reputation for making vibrant yet realistic digital prints allowed him to help photographers like Michael Forsberg, Galen Rowell, Jack Dykinga, Robert Glenn Ketchum, and many others, make the transition to digital fine art printing. With his team at West Coast Imaging, he has helped produce numerous museum shows, supplied prints for leading galleries, and done prepress for art books from publishers like Taschen and Houghton Mifflin.
His simple yet powerful Photoshop workflow, tested on tens of thousands of prints at WCI, is in use by many top professionals, and has been taught to countless students across the country through workshops and lectures.
Working in both black & white and color, Rich strives to capture the profound beauty of nature and communicate it through vibrant, and sometimes large, prints. He considers himself a student of light, discovering its qualities and how it communicates the inherent realities of a subject, often seeking out fleeting moments of rare light that make the landscape sing its own voice.
Driven by the belief that each photographer has a unique story only they can tell, Rich teaches the art of photography through workshops and articles. His goal is to help students unlock their potential to tell their own stories by helping them gain control of the craft, expand their vision, and most of all, to experience the enrichment and joy that photography brings.
Rich lives just outside Nashville with his wife and creative partner Susan, and his three children.
You can see more of his photography at richseiling.com and read his blog for photographers at craftingphotographs.com.