Tripping
Friday, September 14th, 2007I’m back from a 10-day trip to Oregon. The coast if you want to be specific. With a stop in Portland. The coast, the ocean, has a particular draw to me. Maybe that’s why I live so far from it (I don’t know what that’s all about). I’m fascinated by water, in general, however.
Anyway, We had a very nice trip, shot lots of images (see one below) and I can’t wait to get back. Spent 2 days at the Portland Japanese Garden, another very nice location for photography. In the spirit of the garden, and Japanese gardens specifically, the photographic pace is even slower here. It’s not the grand landscape images that work here but the intimate, quiet details that are most effective.
I’m going back to Portland at the end of September for a Photoshelter “Town Meeting” seminar and have planned at least a day extra to go back to the garden. I might even stop by a waterfall or two as I head back out of town.
Before that, though, I’ll be leading a 3 day workshop for members of the Idaho Photographic Workshop to the Stanley area. Stanley Lake, Redfish Lake, the Sawtooth Mountains, icons really, of Idaho. Well, popular places most people would recognize, anyway. We’ll cover the use of filters, some concepts on vision and perception, and a bit on composition. A fun aspect of the workshop will be a photographic scavenger hunt; a list of “items” to find and photograph. We’ll have a program showing these captures at a future meeting.
Next month, I head to Miami to attend the opening of an exhibition of some of my photos I shot in Uruguay in February. The Miami Center for Photographic Arts is the place. The exhibit runs from Oct 8 through the end of the month, then goes on to the Sherman Library Gallery at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale. The opening reception is Oct 13. I’ll post more details here when I have them.
My next Photo I class starts November 5. I’m phasing together Photo I and Digital Photo I since most students registering for both classes have digital cameras now.
