Student Work: Light and Motion - Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair

Last week, I taught a photography workshop on Light and Motion: Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. The students and I had a great time; everyone agreed that the fair is a great subject for a photography workshop!  What better place to learn about night photography?  And of course, everyone got some great photos, [...]

Student Work: DC Memorials at Night

A few Fridays ago, I ran an intermediate/advanced workshop on “Photographing the DC Memorials from Evening to Night.”  Here is some student work from John and Barry, two of my four students.  Didn’t they do a great job, doing a teacher proud???!!!  (Students: You’ve all received an invitation to view a private lightbox with [...]

Franciscan Monastery: Student Work

I taught a full-day workshop on the Art of Architecture: Photographing the Franciscan Monastery last Saturday in Washington, DC, and my students and I had a GREAT time!  The monastery is looking gorgeous as always, and my students – John, Maxine, and Barry – came back with some AWESOME work!  I’m posting here a [...]

Anonymous Dancer, 2009 Gugak Festival

2009 Gugak Festival, Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall. Photo (c) John Jacks.

One of my photography students, John, brought me a gift at his lesson last weekend: a gorgeous photograph mounted on a bamboo panel of a performer at the 2009 Gugak Festival in Virginia, organized by the the Korean National University of Arts.

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