Once all the competitors had leapt from the pontoon piercing the tranquil waters directly in front of them, the calmness was shattered! There was a mass of bubbling frenzied white water that appeared a couple of feet in front of the swimmers like a mini tsunami.
"Forget the usual questions about whether your photograph is good, or sharp, or well-exposed. Ask instead if it is alive. If it is true. If it is honest. Ask if it is worthy of your vision. Ask if it connects. The world has enough photographs that are perfectly sharp, perfectly exposed, perfectly boring". David duChemin
I have never done a photo walk before so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. None the less I was pretty excited about the prospect.
Last year my wife got me possibly one of the greatest birthday presents ever! A home brew beer making kit! It didn’t take me long to set everything up and get cracking with my first brew.
I wanted to be more creative and artistic. I didn't want to just freeze the action, I wanted to show the movement of the action.
I would photograph ancient, modern, intriguing, mysterious, functional and decorative doors. The knackered, falling apart, recycled has-been varieties. Each one with a story to tell of power and wealth, protection and incarceration. After photographing the doors I would then use the pictures to create my very own coffee table book.
Full of magical visual delights – posters, stationery, home-wares, books and all very, very tempting indeed.
I wanted to focus on and capture an ‘in the moment’ picture, so I worked the room looking for the best angles and tried to capture the excitement and atmosphere of the rehearsal.
I’m really glad I attended this class, got to see Lindsay and came away with a notebook full of ideas to try out.
The Shortbread Shed 