RGB [Canon 5D]
Foster Botanical Gardens, Honolulu, Hawaii
April 13, 2008
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In looking for an image to post today, I used the filtering functions in Lightroom and searched through images that had a rating of 3 or more stars. I had not thought of this image for awhile, but I am glad that it crossed my path again because I have always liked the quiet simplicity of this arrangement (which is mostly as I found it; I did pick up the blue berries which were on the ground and added them above the red leaf).
This type of spontaneous photography, where you go into the world with no idea what you may photograph that day, is a refreshing counterpoint to the more conceptualized and planned out scenes that I create with my wooden pinhole camera. I enjoy both types of photography equally; they fulfill different aspects of the creative impulse and each nourishes the other.
There is no One photography. Instead, there are photographies. Embrace the ones that fill your creative soul with light, no matter how different they may be.
The other reason this image caught my eye is because it was taken in Hawaii, and a few days ago I was going over the outlines of the three short workshops that I will be teaching there in a little more than two months. These will be held on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, April 22 – 25. The classes are already filling up, so if you are interested in attending, please follow the link below for more information.
3 Photoshop Workshops in Hawaii
April 22 _ 25, 2010
More Information & Registration Links
Closer to home, and closer on the calendar, is a weekend workshop that I'll be teaching at the Center for Photographic Art, in Carmel, California, on March 20th and 21st. This is a laptop-based class designed for photographers by a photographer that will cover the essentials of working in the digital darkroom:
Lightworks & Shadowplay
Digital Darkroom Essentials
March 20-21, 2010
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
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