PSA Inland Empire

May 17, 2010 PSA Spring Seminar - Free Field Trips for Registrants & Spouses
Pre-Registration is Required. Limited to maximum of 25 persons per Field Trip. Pre-Payment for Lunch may be required for #1 and #3.

1) “North Idaho’s Coeur d’Alenes”: Photograph Coeur d’Alene Lake (one of the world’s 5 most beautiful), Wallace Silver Mine Tour & Historical downtown rebuilt after the 1910 fire, Nine Mile Cemetery dating from the 1880’s, Dobson Pass with remote farms & mountain scenics, to the Spragpole Saloon, Museum & pioneer buildings in Murray (notables were the Earp brothers, Calamity Jane & Murray’s kindhearted madam, Molly B’Damn, who is buried in the Murray Cemetery). Shadow Falls & Fern Falls, returning to the North Fork of the CDA River for wildflowers, rock outcroppings and unique burnt snags from that “largest forest fire in the history of the U.S.” that swept through WA, ID & Montana, (“Big Burn”, true book by Timothy Egan), amongst 100 years of new growth forest. Led by Larry Berreth & Donna Hinrichsen.

2) NOTE: Field trip 2 is full. Please choose field trip 1 or 4. "North to Nature's Wilderness, near the Canada-WA-ID Border": Mountains, two lakes, four separate waterfalls (each have many layers & cascades), beaver pond with resident beavers, Roosevelt Grove of Ancient Cedars, massive granite formations, streams, meadows, marshes & possible grizzly bears and moose.
"Northwest Palouse" will be substituted if snowmelt is late on the Selkirk Mountains.
Field Trip Leaders: Paul DeRocker & Phil Hull.

3) NOTE: Field trip 3 is full. Please choose field trip 1 or 4. “Southeast to Palouse, WA, and into Idaho”: Pioneer barns, homesteads, 1-room school, churches & cemeteries, with Idaho’s Rocky Mtn. foothills as backdrops. Panoramas of spectacular shades of green on artistic rolling hills & wildflowers from Steptoe Butte will conclude our day.
Field trip leaders: Otto Stevens, Rodger Hartman and Tim Bailey.

4) Field Trip # 4, Northwest Palouse: Vivid green rolling hills, Washington Heritage barns, homesteads, farm machinery, covered bridge, columnar basalt canyon, church, evening shadows from Steptoe Butte.”

Where Else but Spokane’s PSA Spring Seminar can you:

Be greeted by friendly & helpful volunteers?
Be stimulated by two full days of Seminars by Don Gale, “Fuji Talent Team”, Los Angeles & San Diego County REI Clinics, Los Angeles REI Outdoor School photo instructor, College photo instructor & Workshop leader?
Enjoy free hearty & healthy lunches on-site both days of the Seminar?
Photograph the nation’s largest torchlight Armed Forces/Lilac Festival Parade?
Receive door prizes & shop a broad selection of equipment for sale on-site by New England’s Hunt’s Photo?
Be guided to our favorite photo winners on Monday Field Trips without charge?
All for the non-profit tuition of $75 to $85?
Receive door prizes & shop a broad selection of equipment for sale on-site by New England’s Hunt’s Photo?”
A mild winter & and early spring promises “Velvia-type color saturation”of farm crops, mountain streams & waterfalls, wildflowers and Lilac Parade blossoms throughout the Inland Northwest. Our New Seminar date coincides with spring freshness and the most beautiful photo opportunities in the Spokane area.

May 15-17, 2010 Average Weather: High – 67 F. Low 43 F. Precipitation – 0.05” May 15, 2010 Sunrise 5:12 A.M. PDT. Sunset 8:21 P.M. End Civil Twilight 8:58.

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BONUS OPPORTUNITIES:
2010 INLAND EMPIRE CHAPTER PSA SPRING SEMINAR, FEATURING DON GALE

Besides better weather, with average high of 67 degrees and low of 43 degrees, instead of the March snowfall in 2008, and the blizzard & freezing rain of the March 2009 Seminar, another reason for moving the PSA Spring Seminar to the same weekend as the Spokane Lilac Festival is the Opportunity to photograph the Lilac Festival Torchlight-Armed Forces Parade, on Saturday evening, May 15. This is the largest evening Armed Forces Parade in the United States, with 208 units in the 2009 Parade.

The Lilac Festival Association and the Parade Committee have welcomed our Seminar photographers with warm enthusiasm. We are invited to close-up photography of the floats, flowers, bands, horses, and military units at the Arena parking lot “staging” area before the Parade, as well as all along the Parade route.

These Opportunities will accentuate Speaker Don Gale’s practical emphasis on teaching by: “Listen & Learn” on Saturday; “Practice his recommendations” Saturday evening at the Parade; “Reinforce techniques and Resolve problems” on Sunday; and “Remember and Utilize those skills” Monday on Field Trips for an outstanding and exciting photography weekend.

“Everyone loves a Parade” with “76 Trombones”, waving flags honoring our military and a KC-135 tanker flyover at 7:45 to start the Parade. We will have three hours between the Saturday Seminar with Don Gale for a quick dinner and close-up photography of the 200+ Parade units – floats, flowers, horses, bands, military personnel & equipment and Lilac Royalty.

We will have 1 ¼ hours of natural light from the start of the Parade until the end of civil twilight, and after dark all of the floats are beautifully lighted until the10 P.M. conclusion of the Parade. Bleacher seats at the very beginning of the Parade are available from the Lilac Festival Association for $15. We are invited to share the Lilac Festival block of reserved rooms at the Davenport Hotel at the special Lilac Festival rate, and/or a Davenport Hotel/Lilac Festival package that includes room, bleacher seat adjacent to either of their hotels, souvenir program and pen for a modest rate.

Many of the floats come to Spokane on Friday, and we are invited to photograph them, close-up, in the storage area under the I-90 Freeway, west of Monroe Street, until they are moved to the “staging” area. We are also invited to have representatives meet with the Lilac Festival Parade Committee, to share ideas that will benefit both organizations, learn details first-hand, and receive recommendations of the best vantage points for our photography.

To quote the movie/play “Music Man”, “you’ve got to know the territory”, and our Field Trip Leaders definitely are knowledgeable about each territory. Our new Seminar dates offer stimulating Opportunities! Let’s take advantage of our welcome and assist the Lilac Festival Association to our mutual benefit.



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