As many of you know, we are in the mountains of western Virginia with our Cascades & Wildflowers of Virginia participants. It’s yet another fun group. Last night, as we all ate, peals of laughter were heard from all quarters. I can’t speak for the others, but my cheeks hurt this morning from laughing so […]

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 …

In our workshops, we always say that each person brings a different view to a scene. If you have ten photographers interpreting a certain scene, you are more than likely going to get ten different views. This happens with Arnie and me. I would hazard a guess that with the majority of couples, if one […]