Outer Banks Photography Workshop

Explore the Wonders of the North Carolina Outer Banks in Winter

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Come join us for an incredible winter weekend photographing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. No more summer crowds and traffic. Welcome migratory birds, deserted beaches and wonderful winter surprises!

Workshop will include in-the-field instruction and classroom presentations from Chris Barnes, professional photographer and Adobe Certified Instructor. Prepare to be filled to overflowing with amazing photo opportunities, learning and sharing with fellow photographers, and plenty of subjects to photograph!

We’ll cover vast stretches of beach, windswept dunes, shorebirds and waterfowl, and even a few lighthouses! Think landscapes, scenics, sunrise, sunset, wildlife, macro and more! By the end of the workshop, you will have explored the Outer Banks from North to South and leave wanting to come back for more.

The Outer Banks of North Carolina offers the most amazing treasures within its 150 miles of barrier island beaches. If you love the sound of ocean waves breaking on the shoreline, the smell of salt air drifting through your days, and you can’t resist stopping for a dune ripple or stacked up crab pots, then this workshop is for you!

With the workshop based in Nags Head, we’ll have the advantage of being close to most of our locations. Even our farthest destination, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, isn’t so far or without incredible photo ops both along the way there and back. From sunrise to sunset, we’ll experience the winter coastline in all its powerful image-making potential.

There will be no arduous hiking or strenuous walking (unless sand dunes and beach sand are difficult for you), and everyone will have the option of climbing the lighthouses we visit. The workshop is designed for the beginner and advanced/ intermediate-level photographer.

Meals and lodging are not included in the registration fee. However, we have secured a block of rooms with great rates at the Ramada Inn in Kill Devil Hills/Nags Head, NC. Breakfast is complimentary at the hotel, and we will provide refreshments and snacks throughout the workshop.

We will head up the coastline to photograph the northern beach treasures, including Corolla and the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, the Whalehead Club and surrounding nature preserves. While there, you’re free to climb the lighthouse and visit the impressive exhibits at the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education. From the shoreline or soundside trails, sunsets over the Currituck Sound are hard to beat!

Heading south, we’ll spend time at the magnificent Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, then make the journey down to Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, with stops in between to satisfy photographic curiosity and interests of all nature.

A visit to the Outer Banks is not complete without a trek through the sculpted dunes of Jockey’s Ridge State Park, the largest natural sand dune formation on the Eastern Seaboard. Long stretches of windswept beaches and pristine sand dunes, sea oats, shorebirds, waterfowl, salt marshes, historic lighthouses, patterns, reflections, dramatic sunrises and sunsets . . . could you ask for more?

Come celebrate your passion for nature and photography, sharpen your shooting and seeing skills (and learn new ones). Spend your days in the field learning to capture what you “see”, and your evenings refining your image processing and editing skills and sharing each day’s visual catch!

Special Notice* North Carolina Photo Safaris reserves the right to cancel any event due to lack of participation.

** Due to specific costs associated with this workshop, NO REFUNDS will be permitted, unless a substititute can be found in time. However, credit towards a future workshop may be arranged.

 

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