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Waterfowl PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOp

February 23-25th, 2023

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Port Bay Waterfowl Photography Workshop:
Richards Outdoor Photography, LLC is excited to offer a very unique waterfowl photography workshop at the Port Bay Club! When we saw this beautiful facility and heard the history and experienced riding out to blinds in vintage style skiffs and watched flight after flight of redheads and other ducks cupping into the decoys earlier this year, we knew this would be an awesome location to do a waterfowl workshop.  
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Established in 1912, Port Bay Club is the oldest continuously operated hunting club on the Texas Coast. The original camp suffered substantial damage from hurricane Harvey, but the current 1.8-million-dollar facility closely resembles the original historical camp.  Located in the Copano Bay System near Rockport, this area has been renowned for over 100 years for the thousands of waterfowl that winter here each winter. Redheads, buffleheads, lesser scaups, canvasbacks, ring-necked ducks, northern pintails, American widgeon, blue-winged and cinnamon teal, gadwalls, mottled ducks, and various geese species will be at their peak plumage February 23-25th during the workshop. There is also a great variety of other bird life including white ibises, roseate spoonbills, brown and white pelicans, and ospreys in the bay. We can’t think of anywhere that would be a better place to experience the vast array of winter Texas coastal waterfowl and bird life than Port Bay Club.

Dave Richards, and his son James, are teaming up with renowned photographer and Port Bay Club member David J. Sams of Lone Star Outdoor News to provide up to eight photographers this unique opportunity. Photographers will receive instruction from Dave, James, and David Sams on how to successfully photograph waterfowl and more. The photographers will have four photography sits in Club blinds to make their own memories capturing waterfowl images. Guides will set decoy spreads each sit and call waterfowl as needed to bring ducks into the decoys.  
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* $700 (PLUS TAX) NONREFUNDABLE DEPOSIT PER PERSON TO CONFIRM YOUR SPOT*

TOTAL COST: $2200 per person plus tax
Includes all meals, housing, and guided transportation to and from photography blinds. 

A nonrefundable deposit of $700 (plus tax) per person will be needed to hold your spot for the February 23-25th, 2023 Waterfowl Photography Workshop. The remaining $1500 per person plus tax will be due February 10th, 2023. 


Itinerary:
Day 1
11:00 AM photographers arrive and check in
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Instruction time on photographing waterfowl
2:00 Depart with guide to Blinds 
6:00 Pick up from Blinds
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Visit at Clubhouse with photographers


Day 2
5:00 AM Breakfast
6:00 Depart to Blinds 
10:00 Pick up from Blinds
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Instruction time with David Sams on Outdoor Lifestyle photography
2:00 Depart to Blinds 
6:00 Pick up from Blinds
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Visit at Clubhouse with photographers


Day 3 
5:00 AM Breakfast
6:00 Depart with guide to Blinds 
10:00 Pick up from Blinds
11:30 Lunch and wrap up
12:30 photographers depart

Photographers bring:
Your own photography equipment and tripod
Camouflage clothing, camo head net, gloves, waders for the blind
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new updated EDITion now available!

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  • The New edition has 470 + color photographs
  • Several NEW bucks added to the live buck aging & judging chapters
  • 21 buck aging sequences showing their body and antler changes over their life
  • 35 buck judging examples of live bucks with known Boone & Crockett scores
  • Why we don’t use antler size as an aging criterion
  • A Guide to Identifying Different Age Bucks
  • Aging Whitetails by Behavior
  • Aging Whitetails after harvest
  • Estimating Boone & Crockett score on the hoof​
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Stickers: A buck of a lifetime
artist: Beth Richards

Inspired by Stickers, a legendary native Texas whitetail. Drawn from Dave Richards' most recognized image that serves as the cover of his book Observing & Evaluating Whitetails. Stickers is the pinnacle whitetail of his book whose life of eight and a half years is chronicled throughout its pages. He has graced numerous covers of outdoor magazines from Sports Afield to Texas Trophy Hunters.
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Beth's artwork is available in note cards as well!  Check out these new cards drawn from her experiences on her recent African safari.
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Welcome to Richards Outdoor Photography and Art!   We appreciate your interest in our work and hope you find just the right image for your home, cabin, or office.  Our images are printed on long lasting photo paper that will last many years.  Please allow 3-4 weeks for your  print to be produced, inspected, signed, and shipped.  All prints are individually produced and inspected for every customer.  Therefore, each takes time to make certain it is of the highest quality.
We also sell our images in canvas prints and aluminum formats. If you desire these formats please contact us.  
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I’m excited to announce the NEW UPDATED EDITION of Observing & Evaluating Whitetails by Dave Richards & Al Brothers is now AVAILABLE!  
  
Observing & Evaluating Whitetails is used by wildlife biologists, wildlife educators, hunter ed instructors, guide schools, wildlife managers, and hunters throughout the country.  Contained among the book’s 475+ stunning color photographs are sequences of numerous impressive bucks over multiple years showing their body and antler changes, providing a comprehensive overview of how to age and score white-tailed deer on the hoof through physical characteristics and behavior. 
Dave also teamed up with noted whitetail authorities Dr. R. Larry Marchinton and Brian Murphy to provide cutting Edge information on whitetail communication, sensory capabilities, aging after harvest, diseases and more. Without question, the New Updated Edition of Observing & Evaluating Whitetails is a must have resource for anyone interested in learning more about North America’s most popular big game animal! 

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Observing & Evaluating Whitetails is offered in soft cover edition for $29.99 and a leather bound signed limited edition is available for $199.99.  Aging Whitetail Bucks on the Hoof pocket guide  is an excerpt from Observing & Evaluating Whitetails and is available for $4.99.   Click link on the left to order books.
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