Robert Glenn Ketchum - 2009 Photography Workshop Description

California’s Wild North Coast
October 18th through 22nd, 2009
Reception – Sunday the 18th at 5:30 pm                                                                                            
Workshop sessions 9am - 4 pm, Monday - Thursday, Oct.19th - 22nd

Workshop Fee: $675 *

Wev'e created our workshop venue to offer four full days for you to immerse yourself in the art of photography in a beautiful setting, with a great teacher and like minded companions. Informative lectures, open discussions, exchange of ideas, in-depth critiques, slide or digital presentations by the artist, and multiple opportunities for fieldwork will be yours. The workshop size is limited to 14.

A lavish 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 - the Pacific Union College retreat center - tucked away on the Albion River. This spacious and private facility is located in a quiet and rustic ravine on the Albion River. We use their large meeting/dining hall with its comfy couches and easy chairs, tables, a slide viewing room, plus a digital monitor for displaying images. There is a delightful duck pond with beautiful woodducks and a feeding station that attracts birds, chipmunks, and deer right outside the big picture windows. The Albion River is a gentle tidal river and the field station offers its canoes for use by partitipants during the workshop free of charge. A gala dinner party on Thursday evening is held in the Albion River Inn restaurant with a special 5-course menu and matching wines brings the workshop to a close.

You'll want a lodging reservation for five nights, arriving Sunday Oct 18th and departing on Friday Oct 23rd. 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 steep 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.

Class lectures combine with application in the field to develope better understand and useof light to capture truly evocative images. Ketchum welcomes beginning as well as advanced students and is not concerned about camera format because he says his workshop is more about “seeing” than about any particular technique. .Informal discussions, lectures and in-depth critiques of student work take place daily and are held in a spacious, 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 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 of $675* includes 4 days of seminars, a wine and hors d'ouevre reception, 4 gourmet bag lunches, daily beverages, and a gala dinner party to end the workshop.Other food, lodging, and transportation costs are not included in the workshop fee.

For information and registration Email  Albion River Inn Photography Workshop Coordinator

1-800-479-7944

photos: Robert Glen Ketchum