Those who follow this blog or who have come to our workshops know that Arnie and I don’t think much of a “perfect” bell curve. We were in Bryce Canyon last fall, and some of our participants witnessed an instructor sending his students back over and over again until they came up with the perfect bell curve. Our group was appalled. So were we.
The painting here is a well-known one by Rembrandt called Aristotle with Bust of Homer. I can only imagine what the man from Bryce would think of …
We recently returned from our Springtime on the Outer Banks workshop where our participants worked at seeking their own vision and making great photographs. We get such good response from our Same Place — Different View blogs, that I worked on another with students’ work.
I’ll just pick two scenarios taken from exercises and challenges we gave our participants.
Arnie introduced light painting to some of our students. It is a great way to bring life to flowers on a heavily overcast day.
Arnie and I have a favorite place to photograph that is full of textures and colors. There is a wall with a roughly ten-by-ten-foot section filled with all sorts of photographic possibilities, so …
Last week, we traveled from Barcelona southwest to the Cava country of Penedès, then up north to to the beautiful Anso Valley in the Occidental Pyrenees. This week, we’ll continue with Same Place Different View with more of the Spain workshop images.
The Pyrenees are beautiful, rugged, and at the same time, friendly. Full of history, there are many buildings of various ages to photograph, small stone villages on mountain tops, and plenty to feed the photographic eye. We headed east to the Pyrenees Central to another lovely valley close to the French border.
One day, we drove up to one of these mountain-top villages, snaking up challenging switch backs on the steep mountain slopes. Finally arriving at the summit, or at least close to it, we found gorgeous views down two different valleys.
There was a magnificent mountain watching over one. Arnie chose to photograph it with one of the little stone huts in the foreground as the late-afternoon sun was hitting the mountain. You can see the valley and towns below…