Wilson Wyatt Studios

If you read my reviews, you’ll see that over 90% of them are positive because I really want businesses to succeed.
When I give a business 1 star, you know they must be really bad. Well, I wish I could give Wilson Wyatt Studios NEGATIVE 2 stars.
Recently I went on a Thurs.-Sun. photography workshop to Lake Powell/​Slot Canyon area with Wilson Wyatt and the workshop could not be more disorganized and was completely unenjoyable.
For $ 1,500, the workshop promises a happy hour on the first day and 2 box lunches plus tours of 3 slot canyons. One tour of the slot canyon by Hummer and another one by power boat.
Wilson doesn’t arrive to Page until 11pm on Thurs. (so no happy hour), Friday he wanted to cut corners and save some money so we were driven around Lee’s Ferry by me cause I have a car that seats 7– at no cost to him. He didn’t even offer to pay for my gas and I drove everyone around for 6 hours. Gas at $ 4/​gallon can get pricey.
Our «boxed» lunch was turkey and cheese he slapped together himself plus some bags of potato chips and popcorn and an apple salad he got from Safeway. I asked him what 3 slot canyons we were going to see on Saturday, he told me Canyon X, Waterholes, and Staircase. He told me that he had exclusive rights to them. .. I live in Phoenix, I hike a lot, it didn’t sound right to me so I looked it up online and sure enough, anyone can get permits to them and hike it with a guide. He’s basically telling lies to embellish his own importance to out of towners who might not think to verify what he’s telling them.
Saturday morning, the Hummer picks us up, turns out we are not going to Canyon X, Waterholes or Staircase, the slot canyon we are going to is called Secret Canyon. He tells me that it costed him $ 200 for me to ride in the Hummer and for the special permit he had to get from the Navajo Indians. And how no one else will be in the canyon. The truth as it turns out is that Secret Canyon is accessible through the Hummer company that is providing the tour, not Wilson and the ride is $ 102 per person including tax with no special permit needed. Ugghhh, at every turn, I was told a lie so that Wilson could embellish his own importance.
There were minimal instruction during the workshop. Basically we were let loose to take photos and if anyone of us had a question, we had to holler for him. I was so disgusted with the workshop that I left after the Hummer tour and did my own thing the rest of Sat. and all day Sun. Oh, by the way, there was no «boxed» lunch was promised on Sat. either. Everyone was on their own for lunch after we got back from the Hummer tour.
Since I left on mid day Sat, I can’t comment on what happened the rest of the workshop. But I figured between Thurs-​Sat when I left, because he cut so many corners to minimize his cost and to keep as much money as possible, the hard cost to Wilson was $ 250 per person.
Wow, great deal for Wilson. Not so great deal for the people taking the workshop!