Just a Quick Self Portrait

Hello all, I'm heading back to Colorado this week and will update with me round up from Jay Maisel and Craig Stevens classes when I return home!

Capturing Summer Light With Brenda Tharp

This week I had chance to assist Brenda Tharp (a photography teacher for over 20 years both in workshops/tours and through Betterphoto.com) in her Capturing the Summer Light workshop.

Brenda has some great insights and holds nothing back from her students, she a pleasure to learn from

Despite having the least amount of summer light since I've been up here in Maine the big class (14 students) created some awesome pictures of not only the type you see on postcards but also some great graphic pieces and even photoJ style images.

It was great fun!

Photographs that Make and Impact with Stan Grossfeld

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of assisting Stan Grossfeld in his Photographs that make an Impact class at the maine Media Workshops. A two time Pulitzer winner, he say's he's probably known more now as a sports writer/photographer for the Boston Globe.

The Students created 7 picture photo essays that were super awesome an diverse considering that they found their stories on Monday (not an easy feat in sleepy mid-coast Maine) then developed them over the week. We had a story on the Homeless in Rockland, Somalians in Lewiston and Water buffalo in Appleton to name a few.

I learned a ton about not only creating a photo story for publication to effect social change but also about photojournalism past and present.

I'd just like to say thanks to Stan and the class!