Cosmos after last night’s storm. I had been keeping an eye on it, for three days; it popped on the day that it would be eligible for the Google+ community’s MacroMonday group’s mini-theme, “Pink”, for breast cancer awareness.
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With muted colors, and a hint of fleshy pink, this stalk of tiny tiny rosebuds makes the most of the original floodlight, as the third act of 2014 gets underway.
I stacked 4 images focused at different points, cropping and blending them in Photoshop 2014, before tweaking the tones and colors in Lightroom 5.6.
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…remember to play.
This is an image I made during a one week workshop at the Maine Photographic Workshop (now known as the Maine Media Workshop), in Rockport, ME, (years ago, now).
I call that week a turning point because of the facilitator, Sean Kernan, whose quiet guidance was more geared to seeing than to craft or method. Sean encouraged playing outside most of the “boxes” that some photographers want to get comfortable in..
elusive unself-conscious fruit of bold experiment was more valued than predictable formulae or safe technique. And, as I have posted before, he fostered a way of looking at each other’s work without ponderous and egotistical judgment in feedback sessions.. not a bad way to see the world, either, eh?
Finally, he has a new book we’ve been waiting YEARS for, based on his lifelong curiosity and passion for finding and nurturing that state of fresh wonder and amazement we often refer to as “the zone”, or “the creative state”.
The new book is called “Looking Into the Light”, and is out on iTunes, so far, for download.
Follow the link to his companion site for info and dialog on the book; I think almost anyone in the creative arts will benefit from delving his/her own process with this book at hand. It certainly won’t replace being in one of Sean’s workshops, but try it.
I think you’re gonna like the way you look.. into the light.
Looking Into The Light: Creativity and Photography is a series of exercises and assignments that take photographers to a direct experience of their own creativity, then let them practice it in their work. It comes from a workshop that Sean Kernan has developed over more than 30 years of …
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