Robert Glenn Ketchum - Photography Workshop Description

California’s Wild North Coast
October 19th through 23rd, 2008
Reception – Sunday the 19th at 5:30 pm                                                                                            
Workshop sessions 9am - 4 pm,Monday - Thursday, Oct.20th - 23rd

Robert Glenn Ketchum is widely considered one of the two 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 dramatically on steep cliffs above the Pacific Ocean on California’s rugged Mendocino Coast, and offers sweeping white water views, dramatic sunsets, and the nearby historic trestle bridge. Ketchum has taught a photography workshop at 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.  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.

Workshop size is limited to 14 to ensure maximum interaction with the instructor. Class lectures, combined with application in the field, will focus on a better understanding of light, concentrating on the difference between what film/digital records and what your eye sees. Ketchum welcomes beginning as well as advanced students and is not concerned about camera format because he says his workshop is more about “learning to see” than about any particular technique. .Informal discussions, lectures and in-depth critiques of student work take place daily and are held in a comfortable and relaxing setting.

Ketchum will be assisted at the workshop by Jeanne Gadol, who will lecture about basic digital workflow from the field to the print and beyond and will offer a session focusing on manipulations in Adobe Photoshop. A portfolio of Ms. Gadol's imagery was featured in the May 2005 issue of PC Photo magazine. Larry Brenden, an accomplished photographer and printer, and long time student of Ketchum's will also assist, and will present a segment on doing your own digital large format prints.

Workshop fee is $675* and includes the reception, 4 gourmet bag lunches and beverages, and a festive dinner party to end the workshop..

*Other food, lodging, and transportation is not included in the workshop fee.

For information and registration contact: Pat Turrigiano Albion River Inn Workshop Coordinator
800.479.7944
Email  Albion River Inn Photography Workshop Coordinator

photos: Robert Glen Ketchum