On November 15th, plan to arrive in San Luis Obispo by 12:00 noon. We will do a lunch at my home in SLO, followed by a welcome overview of what to expect in the coming days. In addition to the welcome and the opportunity to get to know your fellow participants we will do a gear shakedown / gear check in terms of what you have brought with you and any last minute modifications we should look at making. From here we will set off for the Oceano Dunes state park.
Oceano Dunes
Oceano State Park is a favorite location of mine to visit and to explore. We will enter from a lesser known and shorter access point to the marvelous sand dunes. This section of the park is closed to vehicles and we will largely have it to ourselves as we explore the different dunes, textures, and other features. Golden hour begins around 5:30 pm and from then till the end of blue hour an hour later we will have lots of opportunities to work with the different types of lighting.
Black & White Opportunity Galore
As part of this exciting first day, we will have the opportunity to photograph the Milky Way as the Galactic Core will be visible for a very short period of time. This is where we will be able to use tools like PhotoPills to plan our images.
After we conclude with our Milky Way photography around 7:00 pm it will be about a 30 minute walk back to our vehicles and a 40 minute drive back to San Luis Obispo. You will arrive back at your hotel or AirBnb around 9:00 pm. This will be our latest night, the good news is this is not Central Coast Sunrises, it is Central Coast Sunsets.
