Weekends Online: The Weston Collective 2020 Workshop Schedule

I support the work of the Weston Collective to promote all forms of traditional (and yes even some digital) photography.  They have a Great Line-up of Workshops for 2020.

But they don't have it posted on their FaceBook or Twitter so that I could share it easily.  I let them know that they need to do an update.......

Here is a Photo from Weston Beach in Carmel.....a favorite hang out of mine when I lived there:

See more from Weston Beach in My Photo Deep Archive.

Medical Hiatus

Taking some time off........ Please Check out the Gallery for the Colorado Photographic Arts Center Y/OUR Denver Exhibit:

Featuring one of my Images in their Juried Show.... "The Artist's Studio"

I will be off line for a bit.  However I have some preset postings that should keep you occupied.

A Canyon in Utah

Moab Photography Symposium 2018: Final Wrap-Up

A fine end to a 15 year run.  Bruce Hucko single handedly started and managed this unique combination of Workshops and talks about the philosophy of the Photographic Art. Kudos also to Lora who stepped in over the past 5 years to ease the burden.

This Year focussed on the Philosophy of Photography as an Art and finding your personal artistic vision.

 A Blur of Activity at the Registration Desk

And the Program Begins.......

The Results await Processing!

My EMULSIVEfilm 5 Frames made an appearance.

But as with the Phoenix, a new Symposium inspired by Moab has risen in it's place:

See you next year in Sedona, AZ.

Cropped in the Camera

For 52 Rolls, Week #18, I discussed cropping and showed a tree on the edge of a cliff.  On a later roll I found that I had actually cropped this scene in the camera using my 210 telephoto lens:

This compositions actually works much better than the other image.

Sunday Online: Lens Flares

It's been a wile since I posted comments related to an online article.......

So how do you feel about lens flares?  I never think about using a lens hood, so I get them sometimes.  I know that they can be' artistic, but I've never tried to work with that.  I usually get the annoying ones like below:

I thought this video was going to be silly and it was.  I've never thought of faking an effect like this using Photoshop.  But that just shows that I am film-centric........Let's try next time to use some of the techniques described more deliberately, and see what happens.........

52 Rolls Week #20

Here taking a new perspective by trying different telephoto ranges, 150 mm vs. 210 mm with the Mamiya 7:

Do you have a preference?  Be assured I will probably crop out the sky when I print these.

Check out the other shots from this location @ the 52 Rolls Site.

52 Rolls Week #18 at the Moab Photo Symposium

First posts from the Moab Photo Symposium.  Here's the best image for photo shooting day #1, an afternoon workshop with Bruce Barnbaum.  He has a fascinating story and philosophy of photography.  So check him out!

I'm going to print this and have taken a first look at two cropping options:

Crop #1 above and Crop #2 below.

And the Full Frame Image:

See the other two images that I've cropped here.

Having A Great Time in Moab!

Check it out for next year!

I'll start posting the results towards the end of the month.

Celebrating Fall: The Prairie

From our Raptor Photography Day:

Montana Workshop Wrap Up

Wrapping up the posts from our Montana B&W Workshop:

You'll probably see this Barn again, as I like to post Flags on National Holidays.  But I didn't want to wait on this one.  The Barn at Photographers Formulary.

Old Church Building?  From Virginia City, Montana.  The only image I made there.  I think I was just tired and burned out.  Donald made more photos, but hasn't posted them yet.....

And on the way home, the Tetons from Togwotee Pass, Wyoming.  We hope to return next year.

Lake Holland

We spent a couple of evenings at Lake Holland.  Here a few scenes from one of the rolls:

Below, from a different roll and a bit "overcooked".  But still interesting:

In the Trees........

I wasn't finding the fog at Van Lake very inspiring.......But I do like trees.  So I turned the camera around and looked at the Forest:

Two slightly different perspectives on the same stand of trees.

Happy Saturday!

Took a week off from the hectic 'business' of posting on two blogs.  All of these images will be cross posted with the 52 Rolls Project, so there is no link to that page.

Starting now with the Results of our Montana Workshop, with a little sunrise fog at Van Lake:

Holga Week: Double Exposure

We wind up the week with classic Holga Double Exposures:

Garnet, Montana: Mining Flotsam & Jetsam

Wrapping up our B&W visit to Garnet Montana with odds and ends that I'l calling "Flotsam & Jetsam".

We start with the Garnet Saloon....not much to see inside, but a nice facade:

 Above: an assortment of miner's cabins, which typically only lasted ~5-10 years because they were built without foundations. and Below:  I especially liked the tool marks left by the axe on these rough hewn logs.

Typical Mining Flotsam scattered around the town

And yes, a fire hydrant, because many ghost towns have fallen victim to fires.  Some building at Garnet too.  But planning ahead, installing a fire hydrant and well insures preservation.

52 Rolls Week #27: Revisiting Alternative Processes

Sharing the results of a Recent Salt Printing Workshop for 52 Rolls Week #27:

Click on the link above for a synopsis of the process.  And Read more about Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of negative-based photography.

The Garnet Hotel

Back to images made on our Journey through Montana.  We now visit the Garnet Hotel.  A really substantial building for a mining town, and an indicator of Prosperity:

Above:  main entrance and stairs.  In all my B&W (5 rolls total) I did not make an image of the Hotel Facade.  But I had taken a color 35mm the day before:

Inside, the Dining Room stove for warmth:

Below:  another view of the Dining Room:

Above:  The Hotel Kitchen

Here, two views of typical Guest Rooms.

Miners that didn't have their own cabins could stay in Attic Quarters at the Hotel.  The outlines on the floor show the extent of each miner's 'cubicle'.  There were originally walls separating their spaces.

Above, a private room in the Attic Space.

Detail of Attic Window.