PRICE : $395

Your down payment is NON-REFUNDABLE should you not be able to make the trip, but will be refunded if we have to cancel the tour for any reason.  The payment is not a deposit, but is a payment in full to reserve our time in organizing your workshop.  If you need to cancel your attendance at the workshop, we may advertise the opening to others. If someone else signs up to take your spot, we may refund you your payment, but only if the spot fills and is assigned to another in adequate time.  If the full amount has been paid and the attendee cancels, only the second half of the tuition paid will be refunded, and the deposit may be refunded if the attendee's spot has been filled by another. The remaining 20% will be retained as a relisting fee.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• Guiding to locations
  Local knowledge of weather patterns, favorable tides and surf, and best locations based on those conditions

• Personal instruction
  Both in the field and post processing sessions during our down time.

• Post processing sessions.
  We may have a post processing session where we sit down together go over workflow and post processing techniques

• Drinks and snacks while we are on location
  (snacks will be simple, but are a nice energy boost when we are out shooting at odd hours)

WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED

• Lodging:
  Information on various lodging options and locations will be provided upon signup.

• Transportation:
  Transportation will not be provided but we are happy to help connect participants and work out carpooling situations.
  *Carpooling information is currently not being provided due to COVID-19. We will let you know if/when this changes.

• Meals:
  Other than light snacks, meals are the responsibility of the participant.

• Travel to and from Bandon, OR.

So to be clear,  This covers the $395 workshop fee ONLY.  Lodging, food, meals, snacks, rental car is up to you.  We’ll all just make our own reservations so you have the flexibility to extend your stay, choose who you room with (or get a room yourself), pick if you want to join someone else to split a rental car, etc.  We’ll provide more information soon after you have you reserve your spot in the workshop.

TRANSPORTATION & ACCOMMODATIONS

• Participants are responsible for their own transportation, lodging and meals.

• Upon registration you will download a PDF that includes hotel and other information. Please call the hotel directly to make your reservations.

GROUP SIZE : 5 - Space is Limited, Minimal Hiking

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This is serious, sleep-when-you’re-dead style photography.  Expect the alarm clock to go off VERY EARLY.  We’ll grab a bite to eat together (if something is open yet) and then we’ll head off.

Each day is different.  If we have decent cloud cover during the day, we have the ability to sometimes stay out day shooting.  If the clouds clear out, and a clear day spoils the photography, we may only shoot morning and evening and night.  We’ll do our best to give you a plan of what each day will bring the night before, but this is the Pacific Northwest! Everything depends on weather...

PHYSICAL ABILITIES / SKILL LEVEL /EQUIPMENT

From a physical standpoint, if you feel comfortable walking 1 or 2 miles on uneven terrain, you should be in good, physical shape for this workshop. The rocky terrain along the coast can be uneven in some places. We generally won’t need to go on any prolonged hikes over 2 miles. If any location is out of your comfort zone, you’re more than welcome to shoot another location, stay at the hotel and rest, or wait until we get to another, more acceptable location for you. We do our best to group photographers of the same physical abilities together.

Advanced Photography skills are not required. Everyone is welcome!  Quite often we have a good mix of mostly intermediate photographers, a few advanced, and a few beginners.

IMPORTANT - DISCLAIMER

By attending this workshop, you agree to hold Rob Veal, employees, owners and instructors harmless for all personal injury or loss that may occur during or in connection with this trip. This is a self-led travel trip.  You are responsible for your own personal safety. Whether in your car, with roommates you select, and as you move about the Oregon Coast.  We remind you to not push your physical abilities past what you are healthy enough to do.  You alone are in charge of deciding if a location is safe for you to travel to.

Should the Instructor(s) become ill, injured, or otherwise unable to perform their duties at the workshop, every attempt will be made to find a suitable replacement to lead the workshop.

Travel insurance as well as insurance for your photo gear are both highly recommended.  All it takes is one rouge wave to ruin your day and your trip. Insurance while shooting on the coast is highly recommended.

Our role in this workshop is to teach photography on the Oregon Coast and help you find fantastic locations, to capture stunning images. You are solely responsible for your own safety as you travel.  We make no attempt to vet or investigate other attendees of the trip. You need to make sure you are safe in their presence.

In the event of extraordinary events, governmental instability, extreme weather, or other condition, we reserve the right to cancel this trip and return all workshop fees to current, registered participants.

COVID - 19 STATEMENT & INFORMATION

In order to remain COVID-19 compliant we have initiated the following
guidelines for each of our workshops:

• We will have a temperature gun to take each participants temperature at the beginning of the meet and greet
  before they join the rest of the group.

• We REQUIRE that each participant wear a face mask. If you do not have a mask one will be provided.

• When required, we will insure that a large enough classroom has been reserved so that we can ensure participants may remain a minimum of 6’ apart during all inside sessions.

• We will have travel size hand sanitizer bottles available for each participant.

• When the option is available the group will dine outside to accommodate distance needed. (Primarily for lunch)

• We request that no participants visit each other’s individual hotel and lodging rooms.

• There will be no carpooling unless you arrived with another participant.