As you’ve read here many times, Arnie and I are always encouraging our participants to seek their own vision and bring their own aesthetics to their photographs. At our recent workshop in Savannah, they did just that. It was really great to see the variety of photographs they created. Please note that all of these images are copyrighted by the individuals, as noted in the image metadata, and used with their permission.

We visited a little fishing community one afternoon. In the following five images, I don’t think the participants were standing more than 30 feet from one another, yet they saw different things and things differently.

A Y loves birds and with patience, captured this one spreading his/her wings.

Nancy waited until after sunset to get her Pelicans atop the rigging and silhouetted against the fading sky.

Bob also chose the sky as a backdrop, albeit a little earlier, and used part of a net for his center of interest.

Cheryl H. stayed until dark and used shore lights and some on the dock to illuminate this shrimp boat tied up at the pier.

Jack also did, but composed a vertical with a longer exposure to concentrate more on the boat for a different look.

Another morning, we went down to the coast to visit an old community. In this case, I don’t think these three participants were more than 20 feet apart.

Richard found a scene while the sun was really low, but just high enough to add a gentle palette to his scene.

Cheryl R. waited a little and used the early-morning sun to add drama and graphics as she looked down a dock.

Standing somewhere between them, Dave worked to capture the light coming through the Spanish Moss on the Live Oaks.

Once again same place, but totally different views.

One cannot go to Savannah and not visit a cemetery. Think about Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. We went to two on this workshop, and each of the following four participants brought a completely different interpretation to their views.

Don converted his image to black and white and showed the skeletal shapes of the trees leading the way to the river.

Vandana walked down to the river and gave it the feel of several hundred years ago when Savannah was being settled.

Wes took his gravestone, and in the post-processing, discovered a different way of interpreting the scene.

George chose to give this statue a pensive, mysterious look with grain/noise. One wonders what happened to her.

Again, none of these people were very far from one another, yet each found something totally different to make a compelling photograph.

Finally, as anyone knows who has visited the old South, the textures are marvelous. We can’t show all of them here and limit each participant to one image in order to be fair, but our last two participants came up with dramatically different views.

Pete was drawn to the lamp and the way the wall lead up to it. With the light, he gave his photograph a soft, mysterious look.

Jim found a wonderful play of color and texture on a wall that had some subtle light that added to the shot.

As always, we enjoyed challenging our participants to shoot the common scenes differently and we were proud of how they took themselves out of their comfort levels to produce better images.

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