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2019 Big Sur Photography Workshop

Explore the Big Sur coast with your camera. Broaden your photographic skills with award winning photographer, Ralph Nordstrom.

After a two-year absence from Big Sur due to the landslides of 2017, it’s past time to return. The Big Sur Photography Workshop is on for next month, November 11-14, 2019 and there’s an opening with your name on it.

Big Sur holds some of the most stunning coastline in the entire United States. The mile-high Santa Lucia mountains plummet into the Pacific Ocean, creating a scenery seen nowhere else.

Big Sur Coast

Big Sur is also the home to redwood groves and waterfalls, found in the streams that cascade down the face of the mountains. One particularly famous waterfall spills onto the beach in McWay cove.

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Much more awaits along this 100 mile stretch of coast that will challenge and reward you photographically.  Would you like to join me and experience this beautiful coast for yourself? More information can be found on this link – Big Sur Photography Workshop. Or email me at Ralph@RalphNordstromPhotography.com.

See you in Big Sur!

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Two Minutes of Light

Luck favors those who are parepared – and patient.

You read this story again and again.  The setting may be different but the plot is always the same.

It’s a dreary, overcast day.  You had planned this photo session for months, scouting it on Google Earth for the best location, checked the sun position on TPE (The Photographer’s Ephemeris), and received inspiration from the photographs of other photographers.  You made travel plans and booked lodging.

You arrived early at the iconic location, having traveled across the country and driven many miles in a rental car to get there.  But as you approach the sky turns dark with low hanging, gray clouds.  The light is a disappointment but you walk out to a viewpoint and set up anyway.  You keep telling yourself that good fortune happens to those who are prepared.

The minutes tick by and the sun, unseen behind a thick cloak of clouds, continues its inexorable decent to the horizon.  Other photographers join you and you ask each other, “Will it happen?”  Most shrug their shoulders and reply, “It doesn’t look like it will.”  It turns chilly and a cold breeze starts blowing.  Many photographers mutter, “It’s not going to happen,” pack up their gear and head back to their cars and a warm meal waiting them in the comfort of a nearby restaurant.

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