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…

Last time, I wrote about The Passion of Photography. This time, after showing some images from our recent trip to Charleston, SC, I’d like to take that a step further and share a beautiful letter from one of our alumni that speaks to that passion.

For those who don’t know, we just returned from a private workshop in Charleston with three of our alumni, all of whom are passionate about photography. Being December, we didn’t have to get up as early or stay up as late to catch the beautiful light!

In fact, it was raining so hard on Friday, our first day, that cats and dogs were an inappropriate description. It was more like dinosaurs and pterodactyls…