Robert Glenn Ketchum - 2011 Photography Workshop Description

California’s Wild North Coast
~date to be announced~
Reception – Sunday the 17th at 5:30 pm                                                                                            
Workshop sessions 9am - 4 pm, Monday - Thursday

Workshop Size ~ 14 participants

Our workshop takes place in a magnificent coastal setting and offers four days of instruction and guidance from a master artist and teacher. You'll enjoy a vibrant exchange of ideas in informative discussions and lectures. In-depth supportive critiques will further the development of your own unique photographic style and there will be daily fieldwok opportunities.

An informal wine and hors d'ouevre reception kicks off the workshop on Sunday evening. Monday through Thursday's seminars are held at the Albion Field Station. This spacious retreat facility is located in a quiet and rustic ravine on the Albion River. We use the large meeting/dining hall with its comfortable couches and easy chairs, tables, a digital monitor for displaying images, and a slide viewing room. They have a delightful pondfilled withwoodducks right outside the window, plus a feeding station that attracts birds, chipmunks, and deer.

The Albion River is a gentle tidal river and the field station canoes are available for use by workshop partitipants during the day. Thursday evening bring the workshop to a close with a gala wine dinner held in the Albion River Inn restaurant. Out chef creates a special 5-course menu with matching wines for your enjoyment..

You'll need lodging for five nights, arriving Sunday and departing on Friday. If you stay with us at Albion River Inn, a delicious full breakfast is included each morning of your stay. Gourmet bag lunches and daily beverages are included during the workshop seminars.

Robert Glenn Ketchum is widely considered one of the finest photography teachers in the country. He is the recipient of the United Nations Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award," the "Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography," and the "Lifetime Achievement Award in Photography and Conservation" by Aperture Foundation. He also received the "Robert O. Easton Award for Environmental Stewardship," and is cited in the centennial edition of Audubon Magazine as "one of the 100 champions of conservation." He pursues worldwide photographic projects, is the author of 10 monographs, and is exhibited and collected worldwide.

Albion River Inn is perched atop cliffs above the dramatic Pacific Ocean on California’s rugged Mendocino Coast and offers sweeping white water views. Ketchum has taught a photography workshop in association with the Albion River Inn for more than a decade because the inn's location - immediately adjacent to Coast Highway One - provides easy access to a wealth of diverse rural settings, and also offers excellent lodging and dining opportunities.  The historic village of Mendocino with its spectacular coastal bluff trail system is only 10 minutes north. There are log-strewn beaches - many with large rock stacks - often visited by significant surf, rivers and creek trails, redwood groves, and a vast state beach and park system. All offer widely varying field trip opportunities while changing seasonal weather presents challenging lighting circumstances for fine tuning photographic skills, and for re-inforcing participant's understanding of class lectures and discussions.

Ketchum welcomes beginning as well as advanced students and is not concerned about camera format because his workshop is more about how we see and use natural light to capture evocative images, than about any particular technique. Ketchum os assisted by Jeanne Gadol, who will lecture about basic digital workflow from the field to the print and beyond, and will offer a session on techniques in Adobe Photoshop. A portfolio of Ms. Gadol's imagery was featured in the May 2005 issue of PC Photo magazine. Larry Brenden, www.LarryBrenden.com , is an accomplished photographer and printer, and long time associate of Ketchum. He will present a segment on digital, large format printing. His work is exhibited in the Albion River Inn Restaurant:

*Workshop fee to be announced. Workshop includes 4 days of seminars, a wine and hors d'ouevre reception, 4 gourmet bag lunches, daily beverages, and a dinner party.Other food, lodging, and transportation costs are not included in the workshop fee.

For information and registration email  Albion River Inn or call 1-800-479-7944

photos: Robert Glen Ketchum