Our first day this year in Provence leads to conversations about Henri Cartier-Bresson and a filmstrip Arnie’s cousin, Sheila Turner, did with Cornell Capa back in 1973.
Same Place, Different View, Yosemite Alumni Students ’10
… It has been about a month since we shared good-bye hugs with our alumni participants and “spousal units” (affectionate term) after our final workshop of the season. This was an experiment. Some of our alumni kept asking for an alumni-only workshop, and so, we went to Yosemite National Park for our first of this kind. It was a grand success. Some people knew each other, but most alumni did not … at least at the onset. Our imaging and critique sessions, the evening ones held in the bar over wine and beer, quickly changed that. In fact, most of our alumni said we should have all our imaging sessions in the bar!
Same Place — Different View, Outer Banks ’10 Students
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 …