Between the Lines

Lines  [Canon 5D]
November 6, 2008 -- Morro Bay, California

I recently returned from a week down in Los Osos, California where I was teaching a workshop on Creative Digital Black & White at the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging. If you've never taken a class there I encourage you to consider it! It has one of the best classroom/computer lab facilities that I have ever taught in and the owners Victoria and Hal Schmitt do a wonderful job at making sure that everyone has a good workshop experience.

This image was taken on board the Niña, a historically accurate replica of one of the ships that Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492. I was surprised at how small it was. The original crew would have been only about 26 men, and even with that number it would have been a crowded voyage. As I was photographing this and talking with one of the students from the class, I referred to the subject matter in this image as "ropes". A zealous nautical type (a visitor to the ship, not one of the crew) overheard me and interrupted to correct my land-lubber terminology faux pas: "They're called lines on a ship!"

Newsletter News

The next issue of Creative Digital Darkroom News will be sent out this week. I thought that I would have the time to finish it while down in Los Osos, but it was not to be.

New Workshops for 2009

My 2009 workshop schedule is beginning to take shape and I am excited at some of the new classes that I will be offering. Forthcoming classes include the return of two popular weekend classes, Photoshop for Photographers I: The Basics and Photoshop for Photographers II:Beyond the Basics. These will be offered at the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California. Dates are still pending but it's looking like they will be offered in mid-January and early February.

Other upcoming classes include...

The Art of the Photographic Collage
February 19 – 22  Mesilla Digital Imaging Workshops
Mesilla, New Mexico 
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Hawaii Workshops
April 2 – 5  Pacific New Media
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 
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The Creative Eye:
Digital Photography & Digital Darkroom Essentials
April 27 – May 1  Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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