Last week, I shared some of my scouting stories, the first one, from the driver’s seat of Monty, my dad’s 1931 Ford Model A Roadster. Here are a few more vignettes of searching for interesting spots… Sometimes, I am scouting for a particular scene, such as mist on the water or farms, but at other […]
Scouting for New Locations – Part I
I’ve just completed a long, four-part series on Digital Asset Management. It’s time for some shorter, more-anecdotal stories now, ones that will hopefully inspire you in a different way. One of the fun things about photography is discovering new locations. I should actually say scouting for new locations, for while we often serendipitously discover new […]
Creativity and Synergy
As some of you know, it seems as though we have been on the road forever. Clearly, I was too busy at our New England Fall Foliage workshop to even post last week. Everyone left Sunday afternoon, and we had a private client come in Monday noon who just departed Thursday evening. While exhausting, it has at the same time been energizing.
One of the things we try to do as instructors is inspire vision and creativity, challenge people to go beyond what they thought they might achieve, and refine their composition and processing of images. In doing that, we gain as much inspiration from our students as we hope they do from us.
These past two weeks are cases in point. The New England Fall Foliage workshop was based in a small-town, lake-side cottage where I often played Gray …