Muench Workshops: Santa Barbara Spring Fling! -- April 17-19

DavidTO

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Muench Workshops is holding a workshop for all you Weekend Warriors.

This one starts Friday night and ends Sunday night, April 17-19, 2009. Marc will be taking you around his home turf (his life-long hometown) and helping you to push your landscape photography to the next level. It's spring, so we'll be concentrating on flowers!

More info here.

And of course you can ask any questions you have, right here in this thread! :thumb

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NEW
The workshop continues as the participants are submitting up to 5 of their images for critique and conversation with Marc. That thread is here.

We'll be collecting any other threads that people start to post their images from the workshop, below:

• Ian408's catch
• Pindy's fine photos
• schmoo's inflections, part II

catspaw

sounds LOVELY! Alas, I'll be in Vegas for the FEI Rolex World Cup (horse show) that weekend. Everyone who goes -- HAVE A BLAST!!!!!

Blackwood

That first photo is amazing. Wish I could be there.

Tango

what a great opportunity.
(in my case i have no choice in going, but i hope to get another chance)

Pindy

YES YES YES!! I'm actually off work most of April and if I can convince the family to come to SB for the weekend—I'm so going. Thank you Marc, you must be reading my mail.

(later) Some hard-working so-and-so just put down a deposit.

Awais Yaqub

Splendid photos

Enjoy the workshop !

philiphutson

Flowers
I took a quick tour of my favorite flower locations above Santa Barbara. The area Marc got the poppies shot above is just starting to come alive, by the time of the workshop it should be an unbroken blanket of lupine and poppies. Further along the same road is a field that will be full of shooting stars. The flower potential this year looks excellent.
-Philip

schmoo

Bump!

This is going to be amazing, and a nice way to fit in some real quality time with a pro in a normal working weekend.

Driving up the coast last weekend I saw flowers are already popping out like crazy in the north part of the state. I hope this means the same (or better) down south. :ivar

DavidTO

schmoo wrote:

Bump!

This is going to be amazing, and a nice way to fit in some real quality time with a pro in a normal working weekend.

Driving up the coast last weekend I saw flowers are already popping out like crazy in the north part of the state. I hope this means the same (or better) down south. :ivar

Schmoo, I'm thrilled that you're going to be joining us!

(and belatedly: Pindy, glad you're coming, too! Sorry I missed saying that earlier!)

philiphutson

schmoo wrote:

Bump!

This is going to be amazing, and a nice way to fit in some real quality time with a pro in a normal working weekend.

Driving up the coast last weekend I saw flowers are already popping out like crazy in the north part of the state. I hope this means the same (or better) down south. :ivar

There is an incredible amount of lupine out. Every day on my commute there is more and more lupine. On my last trip up Figueroa there was lots of shooting stars, poppies, lupine. The chocolate lilies where just starting. The lilies should be great for the workshop.
-Philip

schmoo

philiphutson wrote:

There is an incredible amount of lupine out. Every day on my commute there is more and more lupine. On my last trip up Figueroa there was lots of shooting stars, poppies, lupine. The chocolate lilies where just starting. The lilies should be great for the workshop.
-Philip

That's great to hear! Ever since we got here I've just been stunned with the variety and abundance of flora and fauna out in CA. Looking out any window I see dozens and dozens of varieties of plants and flowers. Out east the view was always more... subtle. I recently purchased an California-specific Audubon field guide and am really looking forward to identifying all the things out there to shoot.

15 sleeps to go....

See you all soon!

philiphutson

schmoo wrote:

That's great to hear! Ever since we got here I've just been stunned with the variety and abundance of flora and fauna out in CA. Looking out any window I see dozens and dozens of varieties of plants and flowers. Out east the view was always more... subtle. I recently purchased an California-specific Audubon field guide and am really looking forward to identifying all the things out there to shoot.

15 sleeps to go....

See you all soon!

You said you're in northern CA. On your way down make a side trip to
Shell Creek and route 58. If you have lots of time right around there is carrizo plains national monument. If your traveling south on 101 shell creek is about 1hr inland along rt 58. Well worth a detour. Carrizo plains is great to but its mostly washboard dirt road so it can realy be rough.

-Philip

philiphutson

Some fun this weekend
I talked to Marc Monday on my lunch hour . It sounds like you guys are going to have a great weekend. The locations he was talking about sound great!!! The weather is is looking good.
Flowers are great, the lupine have been out for a bit but poppies are really starting to get going and the later bloomers like chocolate lilies are looking good. Plenty of blue dicks, shooting stars, blue eyed grass and stork bills.
One of the spots he was talking about has lots of mustard and anise and look for the Anise Swallow tail as well as plenty of monarchs and common buckeyes. I haven't seen many painted ladies down in SB but there should be some around. He was talking about spots on the front country above SB where there should be california sisters, western tiger swallow tails and painted ladies.
-Philip

schmoo

philiphutson wrote:

I talked to Marc Monday on my lunch hour . It sounds like you guys are going to have a great weekend. The locations he was talking about sound great!!! The weather is is looking good.
Flowers are great, the lupine have been out for a bit but poppies are really starting to get going and the later bloomers like chocolate lilies are looking good. Plenty of blue dicks, shooting stars, blue eyed grass and stork bills.
One of the spots he was talking about has lots of mustard and anise and look for the Anise Swallow tail as well as plenty of monarchs and common buckeyes. I haven't seen many painted ladies down in SB but there should be some around. He was talking about spots on the front country above SB where there should be california sisters, western tiger swallow tails and painted ladies.
-Philip

Awesome, thanks for the updates Phil!

schmoo

Thanks so much for yet another great workshop! I'm thrilled to have been able to spend the too-short weekend meeting and shooting with new peeps, who I hope check in on Dgrin sometime so we can see some shots of beautiful Santa Barbara and poppies.



(I'm so full just looking at this pic again.)

Thanks to Marc for the impromptu photo. I don't really know how to, uh, process a shot like this so I didn't. But it portrays the day pretty well.

Pindy

Did my gut really look like that?!

Great meeting you all and look forward to the next time I can break away. looking through the weekend's spoils, I'm reminded how much we did in a single weekend. Fantastic! That was soooo worth it.

Thank you Marc! Pics to come.

ian408

I had a great time. Just what I needed too

Marc Muench

THE WEATHER WAS AND STILL IS AMAZING

It was a great pleasure seeing those I know and meeting those of you I have just come to know. Here are a few fun shots from a great weekend.






Like father like son:D









It was 95 degrees yesterday might just have to go surfing

ian408

Marc Muench wrote:

It was 95 degrees yesterday might just have to go surfing

Dude. It was 75*F at 4AM in Gaviota yesterday

DavidTO

I've updated the first post in this thread to link to the follow-up critiques that Marc will be providing.

Also, we'll be updating that first post with links to related threads. First up is Ian's post of his images from the workshop!

Pindy

DavidTO wrote:

Also, we'll be updating that first post with links to related threads. First up is Ian's post of his images from the workshop!

David, mine's here: SBSF—Pindy

DavidTO

Pindy wrote:

David, mine's here: SBSF—Pindy

Send me that file, would ya? Or a link to it so I can order it?

DavidTO

DavidTO wrote:

Send me that file, would ya? Or a link to it so I can order it?

Pindy, that pic is a GINORMOUS hit with friends and family. "Tell that guy it's a great pic."

Pindy

Aww man, that made my day! You can thank the sun, which deserves a good deal of the credit. It makes us look like we might have a clue.

Tee Why

DavidTO wrote:

[imgl]http://smugmug.com/photos/470895164_AB9PR-M.jpg[/imgl]
Muench Workshops is holding a workshop for all you Weekend Warriors.

This one starts Friday night and ends Sunday night, April 17-19, 2009. Marc will be taking you around his home turf (his life-long hometown) and helping you to push your landscape photography to the next level. It's spring, so we'll be concentrating on flowers!

More info here.

And of course you can ask any questions you have, right here in this thread!

---

NEW
The workshop continues as the participants are submitting up to 5 of their images for critique and conversation with Marc. That thread is here.

We'll be collecting any other threads that people start to post their images from the workshop, below:

• Ian408's catch
• Pindy's fine photos

Nice dramatic compositions.

Pindy

Tee Why wrote:

Nice dramatic compositions.

That's why Marc is THE BOY!

schmoo

Pindy wrote:

That's why Marc is THE BOY!

He does appear to get younger every time I see him

Here's a group shot, my version:

Pindy

In a band setting, if Ian were in front of us, he'd be the Lead Singer

schmoo

Pindy wrote:

In a band setting, if Ian were in front of us, he'd be the Lead Singer

So what does that make Val?

Pindy

schmoo wrote:

So what does that make Val?

Ringo! (desperately surfing for Beatles photo I have in mind)

DavidTO

Shooting the sunrise, you can see Marc's secret -- he moves fast!