Olympic National Park

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Olympic National Park

Dates: July 15 - 19, 2009

Leader: David Middleton

Location: Port Angeles, WA

Cost: $895

Olympic National Park is a wonderland of huge trees, glacier-wrapped mountains, beautiful rivers and waterfalls and the most biologically rich coast in America. This workshop will sample all these environments as well as flower-filled alpine meadows, a fascinating harbor of working boats, long sunset views and the best workshop tide pools to be found.

Of all the workshops David has lead, this workshop location remains his favorite not only for the extreme diversity and beauty of the subjects but also for the ease, proximity and accessibility of the field locations. After years and years of photographing the Olympics, David is still enchanted with the area and excited to share all his favorite places with you.
Highlights

Working out of the northside of the park in Port Angeles we'll have many choices of places to go and subjects to photograph. Sol Duc falls is a gorgeous waterfall at the end of an easy walk through one of David's favorite old-growth forests. Hurricane Ridge is a short drive from town and in July it is a wild garden of alpine flowers. There are literally miles of meadows from which to choose.

Tongue Point is a great locale for tide pooling and photography. Pools of orange and purple sea stars, great green anemones and red urchins will dazzle you. We will spend one late afternoon and early evening photographing a wild beach on the western Pacific Ocean side of the Park. There driftwood logs lie scattered on the beach, half buried like great wooden whales making for interesting foregrounds and wonderful abstracts.

The Leader

David Middleton first came to Olympic National Park to research and photograph for his first book, Ancient Forests in the mid-80s. Since then he has come to the park for 24 straight years and taught over 30 workshops there. Once a resident of the Northwest he remains intimately attached to the area and now considers the old forests and rugged coastline of the Park to be a part of him. He knows where to photograph under all conditions to get the best pictures. He also knows where to find the best chicken mole, walking paths and bookstores. He is pretty good about finding great compositions and tasty ice cream stores as well.

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