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Greetings,
This month I've got news of a rare opening in an aurora trip, some news on next year's trips, a report on a recent workshop, and some personal news.
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Aurora tour opening
I just had a cancellation in this year's first aurora photo tour in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada, Sept. 21-28.
If you're interested, contact me as soon as you can. This space will go to the first person who commits.
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Death Valley and Bandon workshops
Next year’s Death Valley and Bandon (Oregon Coast) workshops that I’m co-leading with Cliff Zenor are beginning to fill. I’m really looking forward to teaming with Cliff again, and if you’ve never been around Cliff, you’re in for a treat. He’s a great teacher and workshop leader.
Death Valley offers a stark, beautiful, and graphic landscape. And we’ve planned it for the dark of the moon so we can try our hand at some astrophotography.
Bandon has the best, most accessible set of sea stacks along the Oregon Coast. And we’ll be staying right across the street from them! There aren’t many places where you can get to sunrise/sunset locations by simply walking out of your hotel room.
Also in the Bandon area are harbors, lighthouses, crashing waves, and an awesome English garden at Shore Acres State Park.
Visit my Workshops website for more information on both of these trips.
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Olympic National Park workshop report
This year’s Olympic National Park workshop was another success. How can it not be? It’s Olympic! And it was a great group too.
This year was a little different though. For one, Sol Duc Falls was inaccessible because the National Park Service chose the week we were there to rehabilitate the Sol Duc Falls Bridge. So we couldn’t photograph the falls. But this was a blessing in disguise. Instead of walking all the way to the falls, we stopped at a little stream that’s about half-way there (which is why I have informally named it “Half-way Stream”) and spend a lot of time there.
I’ve always liked this little stream with its moss-covered rocks and many, many cascades. But we’ve always stopped there in addition to photographing Sol Duc Falls so we’ve never really had the luxury of spending as much time as we wanted there. This year was different, and we explored the you-know-what out of this small area, finding lots of great scenes from intimate shots of Trilliums to the classic forest with a stream running through it.
I'm planning trips next year for May, based out of Forks, and July, based out of Port Angeles. The July trip will be co-led by my friend John Barclay. Drop me a note if you're interested in either trip.
Read the rest on my blog...
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Bailey
Many of you have written to me telling me how much you've enjoyed the stories of the many adventures Bailey and I have had over the years.
 So it’s with extreme sorrow that I have to tell you we recently had to say goodbye to our beloved little girl.
She was diagnosed with intestinal lymphoma and instead of letting her suffer over what short time she had left, we decided to let her go before she got too miserable and while she could still wag her tail, however infrequently that had become, and give kisses, which she happily gave in plenty.
Tracy and I said goodbye to her peacefully at home on a Saturday morning a little over three weeks ago.
Over the years she certainly gave back as much love as she was given. Lots of laughter too.
Life is not the same and we will forever miss her.
In case you didn’t know, Bailey also had her own blog. I’ll probably keep it online at least until the domain name registration expires. After that I’ll archive it to preserve her words of inspiration.
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