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.

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 differentl.

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 to use the sky as a backdrop 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 light this shrimp boat tied up at the pier.

Jack also did, but composed a vertical and a longer exposure to concentrate more on the boat and give a different look…

Continuing with our time with our students in Belize, Arnie and I are always encouraging our participants to seek their own vision and bring their own aesthetics to their photographs. Arnie and I, of course, also see differently, and our students find it instructive when they see how each of us approaches a subject. There […]