Oregon Coast Workshop, Day One
This week I am up in Oregon, attending a 5 day photo workshop, Exploring the Oregon Coast I arrived in Bandon, Oregon late sunday night after a weekend visiting family up in portland. I checked into my hotel, tossed a log on the fire, and unpacked and unwound a bit from my drive down before crashing out for the night.
Monday morning started out with heading over to the house that’s acting as our ‘home base’ for the week. I met up with the other participants in the workshop, a couple of whom I already knew through other circles. Once everyone was there Joe ran through our rough plan for the week, talked a bit about what he wanted to do with the workshop, and then filled in details on our day. We then piled into a handful of cars and set off on our day’s adventures.
Our first stop was Cape Arago (I believe, I’ll try to do a better job of catching where we stop in future days). One of the first things that we saw there were the incredible waves crashing into the rocks below us. We spent an hour or so there, walking up and down the shore. I followed a fence into a small wooded area where I found some upturned trees and roots that I felt a strong need to shoot.
Someone then suggested that I head up to the other end of the park where the ground looked more like a moonscape than a beach. I took her advice and made my way up the coast, finding the eroded, moon-ish landscape that she described. I very quickly got distracted from the landscape, however, by the massive waves crashing onto the shore a hundred feet or so down from where I stood. I spent most of the rest of my time at the park trying to catch shots of the waves coming in.
We hit a few more spots after there, including the beach near the hotel that I’m staying at. I ended up spending much of the day shooting with a Canon 17-40mm f/4L lens that I had rented for the week. I have more to say about this lens in the future, but so far, I love this lens.
Tomorrow, there’s a lot of driving, and a lot of rain. In the meantime, here’s my photos from day one.
