Total workshop fee: $2,495, which includes four days of instruction and all entrance fees. A $1,200 deposit secures your spot.
Download the workshop PDF for a complete description of the workshop, including full itinerary, specific gear recommendations, lodging and travel information and more.
There’s nothing like a photo adventure on Oregon’s wild and scenic coast. Deep Pacific Northwest rainforests reach right down to rock-strewn secluded beaches and charming fishing towns. There is truly something here for every photographic style and taste. In this workshop, we’ll spend time both in the classroom and in the field, honing your photographic skills and creative vision through training, shooting, editing and daily photo critiques. I’ll be joined by my friend, and workshop coordinator, Rick LePage, who will be helping me teach and lead participants during the workshop.
Our home base will be in Newport, a classic harbor town right in the heart of Oregon’s spectacular coastline. From Newport’s vibrant fishing docks and culture to dramatic landscape locations like Cape Perpetua, this part of the Pacific Northwest’s coast is teeming with a diverse array of visual stories to tell. This workshop’s focus will be on developing your skills to better tell those stories.
Locations During this four-day adventure, we’ll have sunset and dawn shoots close to Newport at sites like Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Cape Perpetua, Thor’s Well, Heceta Head, Yaquina Bay Bridge and a variety of other landscape and port town locations. Along the way we’ll cover advanced techniques like panoramic mergers, long-exposure photography, time-lapse and more.
To get an idea of what we do and see on a Palouse workshop, watch the video below, from our last workshop there.
Tentative course schedule The schedule below is a sample of what we’ll do during our week together. Once we’re in the area, we’ll be flexible, depending upon the weather, the group’s interest and availability of some of our locations. In addition to field-based instruction, we’ll have scheduled classroom time during the week for post-processing demos and Q&A. We’ll also do our best each day to have student image reviews/critiques of images taken the day before.
Day 1: Tuesday, September 8
Meet and greet in the classroom (9am start).
Newport as a location, and a look at the week ahead
Student portfolio reviews
Sunset shoot at Yaquina Head lighthouse.
Day 2: Wednesday, September 9
Sunrise at Yaquina Bay Bridge
Open editing session and Q&A
Drive and shoots at Cape Perpetua, Thor’s Well, and Heceta Head
Day 3: Thursday, September 10
Sunrise at Newport fishing docks and sea lions
Open editing session and Q&A
Student day two image reviews
Evening shoot at nesting bird sanctuary near Yaquina Head lighthouse
Day 4: Friday, September 11
Morning at the Newport Aquarium
Student day three image reviews
Explore Newport’s docks and piers
Closing group dinner.
Payment Terms
The Oregon Coast workshop is priced at $2,495, which includes four days of fieldwork and classroom instruction. You can reserve your spot with a $1,200 deposit; you will receive an invoice for the final balance approximately 90 days before the start of the workshop. The balance must be paid in full 60 days prior to the workshop to hold your place.
All workshop payments are fully refundable less a 10% fee up to 60 days prior to the first day of the workshop. If you cancel anywhere from 59 to 30 days prior to the workshop, we will make every effort to find a replacement. If we can fill your spot, 90% of your workshop fee will be refunded; if we cannot find a replacement, we will refund 50% of your workshop fee. Any cancellation within 30 days is non-refundable.
Download the workshop PDF for a complete description of the workshop, including suggested lodging info, what to bring, and more.
