I am heading up to the coast for a week. Any recommendations on spots to shoot landscapes? I have the Middleton/Barbee book so I will use that as a bit of guide. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Bandon is a good place to start. You can park at the Table Rock Motel and go down to the ocean. Then walk a little south to some nice ocean rock formations.
If you can find the well hidden Fern Canyon, somewhere between Arcada and Crescent City, its a fantastic natural formation where some of "Jurassic Park" and "Walking With Dinosaurs" was filmed, plus there are lots of elk. Not recommended for RVs or buses, it's a long, twisty, steep dirt road down to the beach.
Here are some of my tourist shots from a trip last summer, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Gold Bluff Beach in RNP west of Orick is excellent, and you just might run across Fern Canyon in the vicinity.
Speaking of ferns, there is excellent photography of Elizabethan architecture in Ferndale south of Eureka and in parts of Eureka itself. Keep going west from Fernadale to Cape Mendocino, Petrolia, Humboldt Redwoods State Park and ultimately Shelter Cove before joining Hwy 1 near Rockport, then on to Ft. Bragg and Noyo. Excellent undeveloped open coastal scenery along the way, along with trees at the park and dramatic rocky coastline at Shelter Cove and Ft. Bragg. Lots of private land along the way, but you can still manage. This is a forgotten bit of coastline with small roads and few people- I.e., one of the best spots in California.
Patricks Point state park between Eureka and Crescent City is excellent for rocky coastal scenes.
Inland from Arcata on Hwy 299 you access the Trinity and upper Klamath rivers, as well as a spider's web of smaller roads into the national forests.
At Gold Beach, OR, head upstream along the Rogue.
Not exactly coastal scenery, but the photo ops in the aquarium at Newport, OR, are tops.
In that whole region nobody but locals seems to venture far from Hwy 101, but with exploration it's rich in photo ops of one sort or another, no matter which way you drive.
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4 repliesHere are some of my tourist shots from a trip last summer, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Speaking of ferns, there is excellent photography of Elizabethan architecture in Ferndale south of Eureka and in parts of Eureka itself. Keep going west from Fernadale to Cape Mendocino, Petrolia, Humboldt Redwoods State Park and ultimately Shelter Cove before joining Hwy 1 near Rockport, then on to Ft. Bragg and Noyo. Excellent undeveloped open coastal scenery along the way, along with trees at the park and dramatic rocky coastline at Shelter Cove and Ft. Bragg. Lots of private land along the way, but you can still manage. This is a forgotten bit of coastline with small roads and few people- I.e., one of the best spots in California.
Patricks Point state park between Eureka and Crescent City is excellent for rocky coastal scenes.
Inland from Arcata on Hwy 299 you access the Trinity and upper Klamath rivers, as well as a spider's web of smaller roads into the national forests.
At Gold Beach, OR, head upstream along the Rogue.
Not exactly coastal scenery, but the photo ops in the aquarium at Newport, OR, are tops.
In that whole region nobody but locals seems to venture far from Hwy 101, but with exploration it's rich in photo ops of one sort or another, no matter which way you drive.