Oregon Coast

From: http://paworkshops.net/oregon-coast-workshop

Oregon Coast

Dates: September 9 - 13, 2009

Leaders: David Middleton and Rod Barbee

Location: Newport, ORCost: $895

The Oregon coast is a spectacular place for photographers. There is so much to explore, so many places to take pictures, so many things to point your camera at and it is all close by and easily accessible. The workshop is based in the mid-coast town of Newport, a busy port town on the Yaquina River within easy driving distance of lighthouses, old forests, tide pools, long empty beaches with birds and seals galore.

September is the perfect time to visit the Oregon coast- families in RVs have returned to school, the weather is crisp with blue skies, and the parks and visitor areas on the coast empty and waiting to be photographed.

This workshop is different than a typical workshop because the middle of each day is devoted to editing and processing your images in class with the help of the instructors. This will be followed by a critique and review session allowing each participant the chance to go through the entire photographic process from capture, downloading, editing, processing and presentation.
Highlights

Where do we start? Yaquina Head Lighthouse and the surrounding tidepools and bird cliffs is a great spot for both sunrise and sunset photography. Thirty minutes down the coast is the most photographed lighthouse in America- Heceda Head- jutting out into the rolling Pacific on a rocky headland high above the waves. There are several terrific tide pooling locales with dense clusters of giant green anenomes and big orange and purple seastars.

Next to the hotel are two working harbors full of old, seaworn trawlers and piles of colorful ropes and buoys. But the most special locale we visit may be the Newport Aquarium, home of sea otters and an open air sea bird house that allows water level views of puffins and murres and long-legged oystercatchers. The aquarium allows us to enter an hour before it opens to the public giving us lots of time to have this special place to ourselves.
The Leaders

David Middleton:
David Middleton is a longtime workshop leader and a gifted and enthusiastic teacher. David once lived in Oregon and has photographed the coast for more than 20 years. David is the co-author of The Photographer's Guide to the Oregon Coast so he knows the coast extremely well. Newport is one of his favorite places to photograph and he knows each pullout, tidepool and beach very well. Ask him where his favorite places are to find agates on the coast or where that little café is with the wall of wine for sale.

Rod Barbee:
For the past nine years, Rod Barbee has been leading and co-leading photo workshops across the country teaching photographic as well as Photoshop skills.
Rod is the author of The Photographer’s Guide to Puget Sound and Northwest Washington and co-author of The Photographer’s Guide to the Oregon Coast (with David Middleton). His images have been used in calendars, magazines, cards, websites, and books. He’s also been a regular contributor to Outdoor Photographer magazine.
Rod lives on Washington’s Olympic peninsula with his wife Tracy and their dog Bailey. He enjoys walking one and hanging out with the other.