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South Pacific Costa Rica Photo Tour Recap

by Scott Setterberg March 08, 2025

The first Costa Rica photography workshop of 2025 is in the books, and wow, was it incredible! Featuring spectacular rural landscapes in the provinces of San Jose and Puntarenas, the South Pacific Costa Rica photo tour faced rapidly changing weather patterns that initially created some concern. In stark contrast to the super sunny scouting trip I did last year to create the photography tour, the forecast called for rain and thunderstorms the entire week. In reality, there were only a couple days with any substantial rainfall...

2025 U.S. Photography Workshop Schedule

by Scott Setterberg January 07, 2025

Happy New Year! Hope you had a nice holiday season and your new year is off to a great start. I'm in Costa Rica, preparing for the Costa Rica photography tour season, and thought I'd write a blog post about the United States photo tours that are available in 2025. All client favorites are on the schedule again, so if you missed out on these Pacific Northwest photo workshops last year, now's your chance to capitalize on some seriously awesome landscape photography adventures.

Oregon Fall Colors Review

by Scott Setterberg November 12, 2024

A couple weeks ago, I returned from my Oregon Fall Colors Photo Tour. Since then, in between working on upcoming Costa Rica photo tours, I've been able to do a bit of post processing, and thought I'd share some of the highlights from the last Oregon photography workshop of the year. Before that, I'll tell you that we spent three days photographing the world-famous Columbia River Gorge and two more days at spectacular Silver Falls State Park. It was incredibly beautiful with autumn colors exploding everywhere...

South Pacific Costa Rica Photo Tour

by Scott Setterberg August 22, 2024

While I was in Costa Rica earlier this year, I scouted many locations, hotels, and restaurants, and created the new South Pacific Costa Rica Photo Tour. Originally, I was planning on doing this tour in January 2025, but the incredible boutique hotel where we are staying was already sold out for January and the first half of February. Because of the climate in the South Pacific region, pushing the tour later in the year would mean that most of the streams and waterfalls would have very little flow, so I moved the tour up to December 15-21, 2024. What an awesome way to end the year!

Fine Art Photo Prints

by Scott Setterberg July 08, 2024

It's been a while since I have written about fine art photography prints. Clients that have followed me for years know that over the last two decades, my prints have been featured in dozens of gallery exhibitions and juried fine art festivals throughout the United States, Costa Rica, and South Korea. Despite that, for the last eight years, all my time has been dedicated to producing exceptional photography tours. Unfortunately, during that time, my photographic prints became secondary, but they rightfully deserve a more prominent role.

12 Spectacular Must-See Oregon Waterfalls

by Scott Setterberg April 15, 2024

A photography workshop client once told me that he never realized Oregon could be considered the waterfall capital of the United States until he did an Oregon photo tour with me. He was correct. Blessed with abundant rainfall and enormous snowcapped mountains that produce tremendous snowmelt and feed countless rivers and streams, Oregon is home to more than two hundred waterfalls. With so many remarkable cascades, it's challenging to create a complete list of the best, but below is an account of 12 spectacular, must-see Oregon waterfalls.