For Photographers: PDN PhotoPlus Virtual Wedding+Portrait Expo

Photo District News (PDN) and partners are sponsoring (I believe it’s second) virtual (online) wedding and portrait expo on May 24-25.  These kinds of educational and networking events have been critical to helping me constantly evolve my photography and innovate in new and exciting directions, refine the products and services that I offer my [...]

Bamboo Panels: New Mounting Option

 

Photograph mounted to Plywerk Bamboo Panel. Photo of the 2009 Gugak Festival in Virginia by John Jacks, one of my photography students.

In my last post, I mentionned that one of my photography students, John, brought a gift to me at his last lesson of one of his photographs of a dancer [...]

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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Prepping for My Next Next Exhibit: Of Fairytale Kingdoms

Last weekend, I was prepping for my next next exhibit, picking out the 10 images, figuring out what sizes I’ll print them in, and drawing out the schematic of their placement.  My next next exhibit will be at the Arlington Public Library, Central Library Branch in Virginia, and I’m calling it, “Of Fairytale Kingdoms.”  Since I [...]

Syllabuses for Group Photo Workshops at VisArts

I’m teaching some photo workshops in March and May through the Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts (VisArts) in Rockville, MD:

- Art of People & Event Photography – Photographing the National Cherry Blossom Festival: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 9:30 AM-5:30 PM

- Art of Architecture – Photographing the Franciscan Monastery: Saturday, May 22, [...]

Anyone try the Steadepod yet?

Library of Congress, Washington, DC, ISO 800, 1/60 sec at f/2.8. Canon EF 15mm fisheye lens with Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera

I saw an ad in Rangefinder Magazine yesterday for the Steadepod, a sort of monopod/tripod replacement.  It’s basically a retractable stainless steel cable – you put the base of the [...]

24 Hours in Dakar, Senegal

Transitions Abroad has published another one of my photo stories, this one of my late 2008 trip par hasard through Dakar, Senegal, which ended up being my best trip in 10 years!  I felt like I was back in Peace Corps again.  The story goes like this:

During recent travels to Guinea, [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 11: Arches National Park, aka The Day I Almost Died

OK, perhaps I’m being a little dramatic.  But still, this is the day that I’ll never forget.  The day my Yaktrax fell into the abyss.  The day I was stuck way out in the funnel.  The day I was too paralyzed to move forward, too petrified to move back. 

Like always, it all started out [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip: Day 1, Arches National Park

 

"South Window," Arches National Park, Moab, Utah

It’s finally time for our Christmas-New Years Southern Parks of Utah Road Trip!  You never would have thought it would take 4 days to get from DC to Utah, but it’s already worth it!  In case you didn’t hear, the DC area’s biggest snowstorm in [...]

CASE STUDY: Lighting for On Location Corporate Headshots

I recently did a headshot job for an NGO that wanted photographs of their CEO for the annual report, as well as their staff for their website.  Working with their Senior Communications Director, we decided that a location shoot would best capture the personality of the organization, which focuses on raising public awareness and [...]