The entrance to Point Lobos State Reserve. . . 9:00 a.m. We all met at Point Lobos for day two of the workshop.

Cole was waiting to greet us at Weston Beach.

We also met Cole's son Kim. . . he was there to assist his father and make some 8x10 negatives for the dark room session the following day.

Cole and Me on Weston Beach.

Kim looking at one of the rock features on Weston Beach that his grandfather photographed.

Kim and Cole walking the trail along the sea shore at Weston Beach.

Kim and Cole standing by the Weston Beach sign.

Part of the field trip to Point Lobos included making some negatives with an 8x10 camera. . . here Cole is using a Pentax spot meter to determine the exposure for one of the negatives he and Kim made that day.

Cole and Kim making an 8x10 negative at Weston Beach. . . the camera they are using belongs to Kim. . . Kim was his uncle Brett Weston's assistant for 15 years. . . this camera originally belonged to Brett.

Cole with the workshop participants on Weston Beach.

After spending the morning photographing and listening to Cole on Weston Beach, we went to the picnic area for lunch. . . and more stories from Cole. . .

After lunch we moved to Cypress Grove and headed out on the trail to the point.

After showing us numerous places where his father had made images, Cole showed us a fallen Cypress near the far west end of the trail.

Leaning over this fallen tree reveals the bottom portion of the tree root photographed by Edward over 50 years ago.

Cole and Me on the trail at Cypress Grove.

Next we went to the beach just east of Sand Hill Cove where Cole showed us another one of Edward's famous images from Point Lobos. . . strangely enough, this is just 15 feet from where I made a photo the previous year titled "Mysterious Rock."

Susan, Cole and Me on the beach at Point Lobos.

Cole sat on the beach and told stories for quite some time. . . here Susan had a chance to make some nice portraits of him.

Susan made this image of Cole. . .

. . .this is another image Susan made of Cole on the beach.

We left Point Lobos around 3:00 and headed for Wildcat Hill. . this is the House on Wildcat Hill. . . where Edward Weston lived from 1938 until his death in 1958. It is much the same as when he lived there. . . there was an additional bedroom added to the house, on the right. Bodie House is just behind the main house. . . the whole place is built on a steep hill side. Kim Weston and his family live there now. The new building on the far left is Kim's studio and dark room.

Here I am standing at the fireplace in Edward Weston's house on Wildcat Hill. . .

There on the mantle is the gourd that Brett photographed. . . next to it the shell Edward used for 1S.

Along the west wall of the house, next to the front door, there are floor to ceiling shelves. . . the bottom shelves still have the pencil markings on the shelf edges used to identify stacks of prints that Edward stored there. The door at the far end of the room leads to Edward's dark room. The bare light seen through the door way is Edward's printing light. . .

Edward's dark room. . . looking west. . . the door is just to the left. Note the window. . . in 1940 Beaumont Newhall made a photograph of the outside of the house with Edward standing in this window. There is a printing frame and dodging tools laying on the counter. . . the printing light is just above. . . the light hangs by its cord and has a clothes pin attached to raise and lower the light, just as Edward used it.

Here is Edward's dry mount press and paper trimmer. . . the dry mount press was suppose to be the most modern piece of equipment Edward owned.

The sink in Edward's dark room. . . the GraLab timer was not from Edward's day. . . he used a loud ticking alarm clock and counted seconds in the dark. . . he used a simple, hour glass-type, sand filled 3 minute egg timer for timing print development. . . the brown glass bottles are authentic.

Kim and Me in Edward's dark room.

After seeing the house, Kim took us on a tour of his studio and dark room. . . he has his uncle Brett's enlarger in his dark room. . .which is just to the north of the house. Kim is both a painter and photographer. . . he paints life-size images on his studio walls and then places props and models into his painting then photographs them in black & white. Here we are in Kim's studio and he is preparing to show some of his work.

Kim showing his work in his studio on Wildcat Hill.

Susan and Kim as we were leaving. . .This was the end of another very long day. . . again we retreated to our room to try and absorb all we had seen and heard. . . tomorrow is another day. . . a day in the dark room with Cole and Kim Weston. . .