with Kerrick James
August 3 - 7,
2009
Cost: $2,095
Volunteer Trip Leaders: Lori Lause and Suzanne Mathia
 There's a unique landscape of painterly beauty reminiscent of Tuscany located in the eastern plains of Washington state. It's known as the Palouse region, and it's a spacious land of rolling hills and sculpted fields of wheat. One of the peak times to visit this national treasure is in August, when the fields are brown as the greens of spring and
summer turn to the gold and tans of the fall harvest.
This is an environment built to stretch your vision. Barns, farmhouses, and narrow dirt roads are set off by undulating hills in one of Washington's most scenic and unusual regions. This is a land of gentle design with curving lines to every horizon, offering opportunities to explore monochromes, panoramas, and details.
 With respected travel, adventure, and destination photographer Kerrick James, we'll ascend Steptoe Butte, a thimble-shaped quartzite butte that looms in bald grandeur over the prevailing flat lands. This
location is known for its stark, dramatic beauty and the panoramic view it provides of surrounding farmlands and neighboring mountain peaks.
Additional locations will include Kamiak Butte State Park, where the reddish rocks once formed the bed of an ancient sea, and grains of sand embedded in them can still be seen glittering in the sun. Turnbull
National Wildlife Refuge is a mosaic of sloughs, potholes and seasonal wetlands providing important habitat for waterfowl and other birds while
Palouse River State Park offers a dramatic view of one of the state's most beautiful waterfalls, dropping from a height of 200 feet.
 In the Palouse, the light is ever changing depending on the time of day and atmospheric conditions. It's a remarkable environment for landscape photography, with rolling hills planted with wheat as far as the eye can see and puffy white clouds providing diffuse light—punctuated by bursts of sunlight that create unique shadows and highlights.
The hills will present opportunities to playing with different angles during different times of day. You'll want to have lenses that are super-wide to super-long to compose and compress the subtle loveliness of this landscape. The Palouse is a challenging place to master, but will not soon be forgotten.
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Includes:
- Photographic instruction
- Lodging and transportation
throughout the workshop
- Lunches, snacks and a farewell dinner
- Permit fees
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