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Seeing the world with photography in mind increases one's visual awareness. And I'm glad to be able to appreciate Singapore's beautiful city skyline from this perspective.
One of photography's joys is to look at an image and recall the beauty of a moment -- recent or distant -- sometimes as simple as the fall of light across a scene or how colour catches our eye or just the sudden visual awareness of something mundane or profound and how we desire to capture it in memory, even if the camera fails to record completely whatever we saw that impressed itself upon us. Great weekend, everyone! Lynn & Michael
The idea of this image is to present the viewer with a visual puzzle. I actually forgot to add the question mark to the title. I do not wish to remove the feet as they are crucially important to the image. With feet removed it looks like a badly paste and cut job and the entire thrust of the question 'Cloud Walker?' is lost because the person doesn't see the feet and so isn't bewildered by them.... doesn't have to take a second look! Taken to try to show visual awareness.
Young cousins applying makeup to each other in front of the large mirrors in our bathroom.
Many will limit the definition of "iphoneography" to only those images taken with an iPhone and processed with apps on the iPhone. I think it is more about the artistic experience than the technique.
The one thing that got me more involved in taking photographs with my iPhone was not Chase Jarvis' popular app, Best Camera, but the philosophy he described in the video to promote it. That video help rebuild my enthusiasm for taking photographs.
I've been taking photographs professionally for more than 30 years. I have some of the best camera equipment money can buy. So why would I stoop to take photos with a camera that has only 3 megapixels, a fixed focal length lens, and an image sensor that often has unacceptable noise levels? The reason, as Chase put it, is because "the best camera is the one that's with you." And since the only time my iPhone was not with me was when I slept or showered, I had an opportunity to expand my artistic vision, if I was only willing to apply myself.
The iPhone and Chase Jarvis' simple philosophy helped to put back the fun in my photography again. As Jarvis put it, "Digital photography is not about megapixels and dynamic range, it's more about capturing stories and moments." Instead of limiting me, the iPhone's simplicity helped me concentrate more on seeing and recognizing those wonderful slices of life that unfold everyday before our eyes. Suddenly, I felt like a 14 year old kid again with my first box camera!
Because the iPhone is always with me, I'm able to capture those fleeting opportunities, like my two granddaughters who were applying makeup to each other while in front of our large bathroom mirrors. After taking this shot, I ran to get my DSLR, but the chemistry just wasn't there any more. Because I have become more sensitive to seeing again, I also notice unique patterns and color relationships. In my enthusiasm, I often get out my bigger cameras to try and improve on my iPhone images, but I usually only succeed in making the photo bigger, not better.
I chose the iPhone over other smart phones because of its elegant and intuitive interface. Whether I process the iPhone's digital images with iPhone apps or on my desktop computer is not the point. It's more about completing the artistic vision that came to my mind. I believe that taking photographs with an iPhone, even without the use of additional apps, can lead to heightened visual awareness. This iphoneography philosophy has become my visual catalyst. The hardware surrounding this catalyst just happens to also make phone calls and play my music.
... I will perform a wing-tip stand on water. Black-headed gull ( Larus ridibundus) using a leap and dive fishing technique.
T189 Assessment (ticks):
Visual awareness - decisive moment
Technical Quality - none
This week I received some great news, with results of the Open University course I took Oct 2020 to Jan 2021; TG089-Digital Photography: Creating and sharing.
Passed with overall score of 86%, unfortunately I made a stupid error on my written submission and answered a Question twice so lost 10 marks straight away. ☹
Very good feed back from the assessor, marking me ‘Outstanding’ in Visual Awareness and Technical quality sections.
So my photo for this week has to be the photos that made up my EMA submission.
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Weathered and cracked numbers painted on the wall of an old San Francisco hotel.
Photographs like this one have, at least for me, several purposes or rationales. To some extent, walking into a regular city environment and looking for little visual odds and ends is an important exercise in visual awareness. It is so easy to walk through such places and not pay a lot of attention, and when you do so while searching for images you see things that you'd otherwise miss. It is also interesting, I think, to "excerpt" small things from their larger context. (This bit of signage, is small enough that you might barely notice it if you took in the whole building at once.) With this one there is also a bit of that odd characteristic of some photographs, where their age — or the age of the subject — becomes somewhat interesting on its own.
So, what is it? It is a bit of a hand-painted street number sign on a very old (and somewhat iconic) building on a street in San Francisco that I often walk on these street photography visits. What else is it? It is color and form, abstracted to some extent from its original context. But not entirely abstracted, since if you look closely you might notice the extremely weathered and cracked paint and you might wonder about the history of this little bit of a sign, especially in an era when one-of-a-kind hand-painted signage is increasingly replaced by industrial signage.
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Still playing with an image I like to get the best way of presenting it - would welcome thoughts on this. Image editted and replaced as indicated below.
T189 Assessment (ticks):
Visual awareness - communication
Technical Quality - none
Metropolis at Metrotown hosted Waste to Wonder, the largest flip flop animal art exhibit in the world handcrafted by Ocean Sole Africa.
Ocean Sole used 6,579 recycled flip flops to fashion 5 at-risk Canadian life-size animal sculptures on display from August 8 – September 8, 2019 in the mall Grand Court.
Over 47,000 kilograms of flip-flop waste is discarded annually. Ocean Sole’s mission is to upcycle the Earth’s flip-flop pollution into inspiring art, promote conservation & create employment.
This year, Ocean Sole has transformed over 750,000 discarded flip-flops and upcycled them into unique and wonderful art.
Ocean Sole is a Kenyan social enterprise, that upcycles washed up flip-flops found along the beaches and waterways in Kenya.
Inspired by the toys children were making out of the flip-flop debris, Julie Church, the Ocean Sole Founder, encouraged their mothers to collect, wash, and cut the discarded flip-flops into colourful products to sell at local Kenyan Markets as another means of income for their families.
Ocean Sole turns flip-flops into art and functional products and in turn raise visual awareness of the problem at hand.
By creating their pieces they create employment for a country that has 40% unemployment. They also send a message about how we can help our planet, our oceans and people, through creating beautiful art that portray an important message about the state of our oceans.
The sculptures are available for purchase through an online auction with all proceeds donated to Variety – The Children’s Charity.
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Metropolis at Metrotown hosted Waste to Wonder, the largest flip flop animal art exhibit in the world handcrafted by Ocean Sole Africa.
Ocean Sole used 6,579 recycled flip flops to fashion 5 at-risk Canadian life-size animal sculptures on display from August 8 – September 8, 2019 in the mall Grand Court.
Over 47,000 kilograms of flip-flop waste is discarded annually. Ocean Sole’s mission is to upcycle the Earth’s flip-flop pollution into inspiring art, promote conservation & create employment.
This year, Ocean Sole has transformed over 750,000 discarded flip-flops and upcycled them into unique and wonderful art.
Ocean Sole is a Kenyan social enterprise, that upcycles washed up flip-flops found along the beaches and waterways in Kenya.
Inspired by the toys children were making out of the flip-flop debris, Julie Church, the Ocean Sole Founder, encouraged their mothers to collect, wash, and cut the discarded flip-flops into colourful products to sell at local Kenyan Markets as another means of income for their families.
Ocean Sole turns flip-flops into art and functional products and in turn raise visual awareness of the problem at hand.
By creating their pieces they create employment for a country that has 40% unemployment. They also send a message about how we can help our planet, our oceans and people, through creating beautiful art that portray an important message about the state of our oceans.
The sculptures are available for purchase through an online auction with all proceeds donated to Variety – The Children’s Charity.
Metropolis at Metrotown hosted Waste to Wonder, the largest flip flop animal art exhibit in the world handcrafted by Ocean Sole Africa. The beaver was there for visitors to touch the flip-flop art.
Ocean Sole used 6,579 recycled flip flops to fashion 5 at-risk Canadian life-size animal sculptures on display from August 8 – September 8, 2019 in the mall Grand Court.
Over 47,000 kilograms of flip-flop waste is discarded annually. Ocean Sole’s mission is to upcycle the Earth’s flip-flop pollution into inspiring art, promote conservation & create employment.
This year, Ocean Sole has transformed over 750,000 discarded flip-flops and upcycled them into unique and wonderful art.
Ocean Sole is a Kenyan social enterprise, that upcycles washed up flip-flops found along the beaches and waterways in Kenya.
Inspired by the toys children were making out of the flip-flop debris, Julie Church, the Ocean Sole Founder, encouraged their mothers to collect, wash, and cut the discarded flip-flops into colourful products to sell at local Kenyan Markets as another means of income for their families.
Ocean Sole turns flip-flops into art and functional products and in turn raise visual awareness of the problem at hand.
By creating their pieces they create employment for a country that has 40% unemployment. They also send a message about how we can help our planet, our oceans and people, through creating beautiful art that portray an important message about the state of our oceans.
The sculptures are available for purchase through an online auction with all proceeds donated to Variety – The Children’s Charity.
A downside of the heightened visual awareness that you try to lock into when shooting Street Photography is potential insensitivity
Before taking the T189 OU photographic course I had only taken family photos on a compact camera. This short 10 week course was the first time I had used a DSLR. Prior to this the only photo editing I had done was a bit of cropping and adjusting brightness and contrast, I had never used Photoshop before.
I passed the ECA with 95% (mark for the CMA was 98%):
Part 1 Visual Awareness: Outstanding
Part 1 Technical Quality : Excellent
Part 2 Written Component: Excellent
Comments were:
Part 1 (i) Visual Awareness - An excellent set of images my favourite of which is the Teddy Bears as I love the warm bright yellow against the grey monochrome of the other bears. An excellent and well thought out choice of colour and mono mix.
I think the scrabble picture is "inspired" and amusing excellent demonstration of using differential focus and choosing the right point of sharpest focus
I appreciated your comparison and contrast of the two pictures of the landscape with cool colours which is a peaceful landscape with an added bonus of the well placed house and the drama and vibrancy of the colours in No.7.
I like your triple image the three different colours used maked a picture which has impact out of a fairly simple subject. Good composition and use of reflections on No.4. The jumping boy image has impact as does the simple image of the bottle. The simple image of the swans head shows a different type of "seeing" to the complex image of the Honeysuckle which for me is one of your best images and the work that you put into it was worth the effort.
Part 1 (ii) Techinical Quality - The techniques used on No.8 and 9 work really well and make a simple subject into something quite different and satisfying.
Your technical standard is generally very good and use of clone tool and other tools shows you are mastering Digital Darkroom techniques.
As the strongest highlight draws the eye I would darken down the right side of the sky in No.5 and carefully lighten or brighten the house to make it stand out as the strongest highlight.
Well done Jill - keep taking the pictures and exploring techniques and subject matter, most of all enjoy your photography.
"After taking a swig from my flask I peered into the cracked mirror, past the glass bottles holding in them the poison of choice. It appears that this fractured mirror exposes to its onlookers their true image and their blurred perception of self-examination. With the consumption of alcohol all onlooker’s visual awareness, even my own, have become distorted and changed. The mirror stood still while continually reflecting the ever-changing world around it." Olivia Webb, "The Cracked Mirror"
horror.media/the-cracked-mirror
Halloween 2018 Showing
Needs Ore Reserve, Hampshire
T189 Assessment (ticks):
Visual awareness - communication + decisive moment
Technical Quality - focus and sharpness
I'm not sure why I find myself posting so many blurry images lately. I did get a new pair of progressive lens glasses recently that have a stronger peripheral blur than I'm used to. Who knows, those kinds of changes in our visual awareness from day to day might have subconscious effects on us.
EXPLORE #398 on January 1, 2011
UPDATE: 365 Community Blog did a piece on me for finishing my 365, read it here! 365-community.blogspot.com/2011/01/congratulations-to-cle...
What a great day to complete my 365! It was beautiful out and barring the excessive wind, the weather couldn't have been better!
I'm really excited to be coming to the end of this project because it's been a real thrill finding new stuff around me to share with the world via the camera. If there's one thing that this project does is it makes you more aware of your surroundings. Buildings and everyday things you usually just pass by suddenly become interesting and even beautiful. Even the ugly things warrant a second look, like an old abandoned building or shattered glass in the street. If you're reading this and wondering whether or not to start your own 365, I highly recommend it. I started my project to sharpen my photography skills, and most of all to bring more visual awareness to the world of what Cleveland has to offer, and I think I ended up learning more about the city myself than I thought I would!
2010 was an incredible year: I graduated college, found a job downtown, and started dating Heather. Very rarely does that trifecta ever happen in the course of one year and I'm blessed on every level that God provided me with such a prosperous year. I did lose a good friend this year, our family friend Rich and I know that this year we missed him a lot especially seeing his camera booth empty at the Jake for Indians games. All in all though, this was a wonderful year so I'm glad I was able to chronicle it through photos.
So what's next? I've gotten a few e-mails from Flickr people and asked by many other friends alike asking if I'm done or taking a break or whatever. I decided I'm going to continue with a fresh new 365 for 2011…it seems like part of my daily routine to take a picture of something, so for now I have no intention of taking a break! The one major change however is I won't be doing a song of the day each day…believe me, I'd love to but it was a real challenge finding songs for each day, and I don't think I repeated songs once.
Finally I want to thank and share some of my friends that I've made through the 365 Community with you, to see what others have done and maybe get some inspiration to do your own for '11: (Note not everyone in this list has done a 365 but their photos are really inspiring!)
- Kristen + Brian: My very first 365 friends, from Beacon, NY take some awesome photos of their small town. Both have great taste in music and art, and you should definitely make it a point to check them out:
www.flickr.com/photos/teammoonshine/
- Masqueradebeauty: She's my girlfriend so of course I'm adding her to the list, but she is learning to take some great pictures and for the new photographer I'd suggest checking her stuff out…she has beautiful photos of Wisconsin in her photostream:
www.flickr.com/photos/17874455@N06/
- Adam Jaenke: This guy loves Cleveland about as much as I do, and there's some solid city shots and portraits you should take a look at depending on what kind of photography you enjoy:
www.flickr.com/photos/orbitsofmoon/
- Thom Sheridan: A veteran photographer, Thom has become a really good friend of mine here in the city. Anyone that's ever said Cleveland didn't have anything good to look at should hold their tongue before taking a look at Thom's photos from today and especially from the past:
www.flickr.com/photos/thomsheridan/
- Bpdphotography: Brandon is the guy that introduced me to the world of urban exploring and graffiti. He's got crazy talent behind the lens and can make any decay building look amazing; it'd be well worth your time going through his photos and learning about urban exploring:
www.flickr.com/photos/bpdphotography/
- Alorena1: My Portuguese buddy Ana has the beautiful city of Lisbon as her place of exploration and captures every detail of this artistic city. Take a look at her photos of Joey too, you'll like what you see!:
www.flickr.com/photos/39933625@N08/
- Erjkprunczyk: Talk about making the midwest beautiful! Erik takes some fantastic photos of small communities in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. There's great rustic and small town photos to be seen here. Plus Erik is really good at commenting on your photos if he thinks they're good, he's got a great eye for what he does:
www.flickr.com/photos/24842486@N07/
- Cleveland Urban Girl: Working downtown has brought out some amazing photos of Cleveland at night and before sunrise from CUG. I'd suggest checking out her downtown and suburb photos for some really cool ideas:
www.flickr.com/photos/clevelandurbangirl/
- Moreh 365: Moreh captures people in everyday life wonderfully. It's great to see her using film during her 365 sometimes in contrast to just digital. She's one of the reasons I got inspired to start using film and Lomography cameras for my everyday use:
www.flickr.com/photos/momoe365photos/
- Detroitmi91: Mark proves that age means nothing when you're shooting photography and that you only need talent and a willingness to learn. Detroit's a great city to shoot urban photos in but he takes it to a brand new level. Any UrbEx fans should definitely check out his work:
www.flickr.com/photos/43602615@N06
So there you have it, three hundred and sixty-five days under my belt and I'm signing on for another one tomorrow. For those of you I met this year be it on Flickr or in person, thanks for your support and inspiration and I hope that I inspired you as well, and gave you a new perspective on the city I call home.
Happy New Year, bring on 2011!
- Tim
Song of the Day: "One Polaroid A Day" by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
CONSCIOUSNESS IS QUANTIZED: Consciousness occurs in ‘time slices’ lasting only milliseconds, study suggests.
According to Herzog and fellow researcher Frank Scharnowski from the University of Zurich, neither the ‘continuous’ nor ‘discrete’ hypotheses can by themselves aptly describe how we process the world around us, as numerous studies testing people’s visual awareness seem to disprove both notions.
But what if elements of both hypotheses were taking place at the same time in a continuous interplay between conscious and unconscious thought?
“According to our model, the elements of a visual scene are first unconsciously analysed. This period can last up to 400 ms and involves, amongst other processes, the analysis of stimulus features such as the orientation or colour of elements and temporal features such as object duration and object simultaneity,” the authors write in PLOS Biology.
After this analysis is complete, the researchers say the features we’ve detected are integrated into our conscious perception, compressing all the unconscious recording into something we’re actually aware of.
In other words, while we’re taking the world in, we’re not actually consciously perceiving it. Instead, we’re just mutely using our senses to record data for up to 400 ms at a time. Then, in what could be called a moment of clarity, we consciously perceive the stimuli that our senses have detected.
The team thinks this presentation of information to our consciousness lasts for about 50 milliseconds, during which we also stop taking new sensory information in. And then repeat.
Hmm. Or maybe this is evidence that we’re living in a computer simulation. Also see this.
I got the results from my Open University Digital Photography Course today... and I passed. I totally forgot the results were out today, until a friend reminded me. I'm happy... I got 'excellent' for my visual awareness and technical ability, and 'well achieved' for my written component. More info is coming in the post, but I gather from previous students that it isn't that much.
I feel a little deflated - like "woooohoooo", and then "oh, is that it?". I mean, I don't have a qualification or anything... have just had someone tell me I know how to work my camera. Now I want to take it further. There are so many options out there it's so hard to know which is the right path to take.
I want to take photography to a professional level. I can't commit to a full time university course, although that would be my dream, financially, and family-wise, it's just not do-able. Part time evening courses are also out, which leaves me two options, as far as I can see...
Either I do another distance learning course... am I disciplined enough? Or I just try to continue to teach myself and gain experience along the way.
I love the idea of a formal qualification, but looking at some course sites tonight, it would take me 7 years to get a degree.... woahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Oh decisions decisions. I'm typical Libra - so indecisive.... I just want to feel like I'm doing something to help me progress.
I see she hasn't mentioned it in her 365 today, so I will... my friend hlngre23 also passed - YAY!
My iPOD was on, as it tends to be when I roam the streets with my camera. I become focused, it helps me heighten my visual awareness as I compose the fragments of my surroundings on a small swivel LCD screen. The presence of the security guard on my left interrupted a particularly satisfying moment of shooting as I stood in a well lit park 30 minutes into my evening shoot.
"Excuse me sir."
As usual I used the iPOD as a screen for a few seconds, feigning deafness wrought on by high volume music. I snapped a few more shots. The guard tapped my shoulder, a young man, quite relaxed and determined to initiate the spiel that I have become ever more familiar with over the past few months.
"Excuse me sir, you can't use a tripod."
I stood still for a few seconds absorbing the statement.
"May I take photos though?" I said, as I felt the grin on my face become more obvious to my sudden vistor.
"Yes sir, but without the tripod."
I laughed. Actually I guffawed wholeheartedly, bemused at the specifics of the position that I had to deal with. I immediately apologized.
"I'm sorry, but I am not laughing at you. I am merely amused by this rule. Why is this the case?"
"The lawyers gave us orders to say this. People sue when tripods tip in the wind"
I laughed again, thanked him for the explanation and walked to the sidewalk, about 10 paces away. I checked to see that I was standing clearly in the public realm, set up my tripod again, and proceeded to take my shot. The guard walked off into the night.
Pond skater on a New Forest stream
T189 Assessment (ticks):
Visual awareness - communication + use of light/colour/texture
Technical Quality - colour or tonal properties
My newest book that I'm reading now, which is mostly Glaser's pictures that he put in a particular sequence of related pairs on facing pages -- for example, the two that I've included here. The kind of thinking his book is intended to stimulate seems to be (obviously) primarily a heighted visual awareness. (This was published in 2008, but I only heard about it recently and my copy arrived yesterday.)
If you're interested in Glaser's work and ideas then you might like to watch this interview:
Milton Glaser: Certainty Is A Closing Of The Mind
September 18th, 2013 -- 45 minutes
www.goodlifeproject.com/milton-glaser/
If that's more than you want to know or it's too slow for you, here are two other much shorter videos about Glaser:
vimeo.com/11577085 [6 minutes]
www.ted.com/speakers/milton_glaser.html [15 mins 14secs]
Here is some of what Glaser says at the beginning of the book, before all the pictures (from page 17 of the interview on pages 10-22):
"My assumption is that we build up a reservoir of preconceived ideas about everything, which becomes the basis for our lives. And then, every once in a while, perhaps through meditation or through art, we see freshly and without the encumbrances of our own history. That's what my fascination with drawing is, for one thing, but also to make connections and comparisons between creating art and the experience of mediation. To me this doesn't seem fanciful at all." [Yes, that was "the experience of mediation", not meditation -- it wasn't a typo in the book or in my copying it.]
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"The fact is that we develop immunity to experience, because we have to, because if we responded to everything in life, we could not tolerate it. Most of our lives we spend deflecting most of the information we receive. You go out in the street and you are besieged just by what your sight, your hearing, your mind encounter. People stop paying attention; they revert to cruise control. Every once in a while something will happen, like somebody dies, or you have an accident, or you see a great painting, and you realize that you are living in a semiconscious state. In fact, that may be the only way humans can cope with the complexity of life."
"What paintings do, and theater does, and what poetry does, is to penetrate people's immunity and to embrace the puzzles to be solved. ..."
The picture of Glaser in this collage (or mosaic) was cropped from a frame in the 45 minute interview.
Something that seems odd to me that I don't have a good explanation for is that here in Tallahassee neither the public library nor Florida State University's libraries have either this book or Glaser's most important previous two books. My wild guess is that maybe the fine arts departments at FSU think Glaser is way too much of a commercial artist to be worth noticing. However, the FSU business school is much bigger and I would expect some of their teachers and students to request the book be added to the library collections. For at least a couple decades many big, expensive volumes about graphic design were bought (before I retired I cataloged several of them). Or maybe FSU faculty, staff, and students have simply become so focused on electronic resources that they no longer look very carefully for worthwhile printed books to buy and may now have a much smaller budget for such old fashioned formats. It doesn't surprise me that Drawing is Thinking and Glaser's other books are available only as printed books.
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©John Reiff Williams, Image 2014, Words 2015.
There are two effects I want to throw into play here, one is that we may identify with the idea that things change but being able to witness that is another story. The other idea is the way we don't think about Time as much other than a perpetual Now, which is not always helpful.
We are all born into a disintegration process, although we choose not to consider that we all have an expiration date. The disintegration of an aluminum takes about 500 years. In this overlay of two cans I wanted to evoke the sense of time, process and shift your visual awareness to that order of thinking. Perhaps part of the problem in changing our views and positions is that we can not imagine the future as being anything other than the way things present themselves. Our lives are increasingly focused on negotiating being where we are, right here and now. So it is logical that our forward thinking and the consequences of our actions on a personal level stall out, and thinking on a global order seems so far removed. What became of our thinking and ideology of the seventh generation amendment to the constitution:
www.greens.org/s-r/09/09-19.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_generation
an ideal that decisions should be based upon the impact on the seventh generation to come.
One might also look again, at Garrett Hardin's Essay, The Tragedy of the Commons" to get in touch with consequences of our actions on a global order.
We're going to be learning how to shoot with black and white film cameras and process without a darkroom for 5 days on a beautiful island. September 8-12th on Monhegan Island, Maine.
For more information and to register, go to our Workshops Page.
www.davidaimone.com/workshops/film_fall_2014
This Monday to Friday hands-on small group intensive workshop offers the beginning to intermediate film-based photographer an intense immersion into the basic and advanced processes for film photography with basic tools and without a darkroom. You’ll explore materials, methods, and expressive approaches through a series of guided, hands-on challenges designed to increase your technical ability and visual awareness. Take part in classroom exercises, studio sessions and field work in stunning locations 10 miles out to sea on beautiful Monhegan Island, Maine. The workshop will include lecture, interactive discussions and projects,and an independent project you’ll design and execute yourself under the guidance and encouragement of the instructor. This workshop will focus on creating black and white film images.
Prior experience with film welcomed, but not required. Class size limited to five students.
We will use 35mm, medium and large format cameras to take photos on Monhegan Island, while learning the basics of film photography—from loading cameras and selecting film through film development to film scanning and printing via inkjet and alternative contact print processes like VanDyke Brown. Instead of a darkroom, we'll be using daylight tanks to process film in the studio on the island. Only the loading of film holders and daylight tanks will have to be done in the dark.
Green Anemone - Olympic National Park Ruby Beach
From "Gathering Moss" by by Robin Wall Kimmerer (writing about finding starfish in a tidepool. I like this passage, but I linked it with an anemone. BTW, this is a great book.)
"The sensation of sudden visual awareness is produced in part by the formation of a "search image" in the brain. In a complex visual landscape, the brain initially registers all the incoming data, without critical evaluation. Five orange arms in a starlike pattern, smooth black rock, light and shadow. All this is input, but the brain does not immeadiately intepet the data or convey the meaning to the conscious mind. Not until the pattern is repeated, with feedback from the conscious mind, do we know what we are seeing. It is in this way that animals become skilled collectors of their prey, by differentiating complex visual patterns into into the particular configurations that mean food. .... The neural pathways have to be trained by experience to process what is being seen. The synapses fire and stars come out. The unseen is suddenly plain."
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Hexacorallia
Order: Actiniaria
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Green Anemone in a Tidepool - Olympic National Park Ruby Beach
From "Gathering Moss" by by Robin Wall Kimmerer (writing about finding starfish in a tidepool. I like this passage, but I linked it with an anemone. BTW, this is a great book.)
The sensation of sudden visual awareness is produced in part by the formation of a "search image" in the brain. In a complex visual landscape, the brain initially registers all the incoming data, without critical evaluation. Five orange arms in a starlike pattern, smooth black rock, light and shadow. All this is input, but the brain does not immeadiately intepet the data or convey the meaning to the conscious mind. Not until the pattern is repeated, with feedback from the conscious mind, do we know what we are seeing. It is in this way that animals become skilled collectors of their prey, by differentiating complex visual patterns into into the particular configurations that mean food. .... The neural pathways have to be trained by experience to process what is being seen. The synapses fire and stars come out. The unseen is suddenly plain.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Hexacorallia
Order: Actiniaria
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Biography:
Native of Ukraine, I have been calling San Francisco a second home since 2007. CCSF Came into play in 2011 when I signed up for my 1st class here-Beginning Photography with Erika Gentry. It’s been a creative roller-coaster ride ever since...
Every day brings new challenges, excitements, and hopes. Every day is another story to that inspires and helps to make a few steps towards our goals and dreams...I have a keen visual awareness, and imagery has become my best friend and an expressive tool. I seek beauty in everyday moments and the small details around us. I constantly explore new and unexpected angles, and believe in the magic behind the image.
My dream is to become a visual designer working towards a more sustainable society and use the power of creative forces to make this world a better home for all...
Modern technologies puts a lot of power in our hands, and while anyone can snap a shot, we all should remember the real beauty lies in discovering the essence and revealing the untold...
CCSF Photography and You:
Ever since my first class at City College in Photography Department in 2011, I have been taking my solid steps towards exciting and rewarding career in Photography and Visual Design. I have been a proud student for 3 years! The resources and diverse community of City College had played a huge and important role not only in my life, but in a life of thousands of Bay Area residents who relays on affordable education of high quality.
Artist’s Statement
Full-time school schedule, part-time job, taking care of my home and family and two cats for the past three semesters left me no choice but to keep a digital diary utilizing The Device of today: Instagram (immediate, accessible, easy, satisfying, addictive, social phenomenon).
#beforenovember is a chronologically organized digital record from my Instagram gallery, including images from January to Octobet of 2013. The tiles are 2”by2” and are the actual size as they appear on my iPhone. The grid is the most appropriate format to host 183 images, all generated in Instagram over the past 10 months. Together they form a timeline build from personal experiences.
Each set features one larger image, it has a special story and carries a significant emotional load. It is both a contextual emphasis and visual pause.
The three sets exclude any personal images and lack a human as the main point of interest.
My intention for the audience is to engage with the subject of the images and imagine the person
behind them...
#beforenovember
is an in-Instagram created photographic poem to 2013, a year that took me to the mountains of Ukraine and Lake Tahoe, streets of Chicago, Kiev, Odessa, New York and Montreal, and the forever inspiring home-grounds
of San Francisco. It’s also a digital insta-portrait build from the images of every-day moments.
Based on my writing in www.rhythmvision.com
a review in ralphmag.org/briefsM.html
Rhythm
Vision:
A Guide to
Visual Awareness
Dennis Roth
(Intaglio Press)
Basically about paying attention to light as a separate entity and noticing the rotation in one's visual field as one moves past. But how can you dismiss a book whose author admits
"some trees are so provocative that one must forcefully dismiss them with 'you brazen hussy'...lest they overpower you with their beauty."
So drop that copy of Vox, you pervert, and prepare for the delights of visual sex, or whatever you want to call the delightful change in perception brought by even a cursory reading of this book. Lust for light!
Biography:
Native of Ukraine, I have been calling San Francisco a second home since 2007. CCSF Came into play in 2011 when I signed up for my 1st class here-Beginning Photography with Erika Gentry. It’s been a creative roller-coaster ride ever since...
Every day brings new challenges, excitements, and hopes. Every day is another story to that inspires and helps to make a few steps towards our goals and dreams...I have a keen visual awareness, and imagery has become my best friend and an expressive tool. I seek beauty in everyday moments and the small details around us. I constantly explore new and unexpected angles, and believe in the magic behind the image.
My dream is to become a visual designer working towards a more sustainable society and use the power of creative forces to make this world a better home for all...
Modern technologies puts a lot of power in our hands, and while anyone can snap a shot, we all should remember the real beauty lies in discovering the essence and revealing the untold...
CCSF Photography and You:
Ever since my first class at City College in Photography Department in 2011, I have been taking my solid steps towards exciting and rewarding career in Photography and Visual Design. I have been a proud student for 3 years! The resources and diverse community of City College had played a huge and important role not only in my life, but in a life of thousands of Bay Area residents who relays on affordable education of high quality.
Artist’s Statement
Full-time school schedule, part-time job, taking care of my home and family and two cats for the past three semesters left me no choice but to keep a digital diary utilizing The Device of today: Instagram (immediate, accessible, easy, satisfying, addictive, social phenomenon).
#beforenovember is a chronologically organized digital record from my Instagram gallery, including images from January to Octobet of 2013. The tiles are 2”by2” and are the actual size as they appear on my iPhone. The grid is the most appropriate format to host 183 images, all generated in Instagram over the past 10 months. Together they form a timeline build from personal experiences.
Each set features one larger image, it has a special story and carries a significant emotional load. It is both a contextual emphasis and visual pause.
The three sets exclude any personal images and lack a human as the main point of interest.
My intention for the audience is to engage with the subject of the images and imagine the person
behind them...
#beforenovember
is an in-Instagram created photographic poem to 2013, a year that took me to the mountains of Ukraine and Lake Tahoe, streets of Chicago, Kiev, Odessa, New York and Montreal, and the forever inspiring home-grounds
of San Francisco. It’s also a digital insta-portrait build from the images of every-day moments.
Before taking the T189 OU photographic course I had only taken family photos on a compact camera. This short 10 week course was the first time I had used a DSLR. Prior to this the only photo editing I had done was a bit of cropping and adjusting brightness and contrast, I had never used Photoshop before.
I passed the ECA with 95% (mark for the CMA was 98%):
Part 1 Visual Awareness: Outstanding
Part 1 Technical Quality : Excellent
Part 2 Written Component: Excellent
Comments were:
Part 1 (i) Visual Awareness - An excellent set of images my favourite of which is the Teddy Bears as I love the warm bright yellow against the grey monochrome of the other bears. An excellent and well thought out choice of colour and mono mix.
I think the scrabble picture is "inspired" and amusing excellent demonstration of using differential focus and choosing the right point of sharpest focus
I appreciated your comparison and contrast of the two pictures of the landscape with cool colours which is a peaceful landscape with an added bonus of the well placed house and the drama and vibrancy of the colours in No.7.
I like your triple image the three different colours used maked a picture which has impact out of a fairly simple subject. Good composition and use of reflections on No.4. The jumping boy image has impact as does the simple image of the bottle. The simple image of the swans head shows a different type of "seeing" to the complex image of the Honeysuckle which for me is one of your best images and the work that you put into it was worth the effort.
Part 1 (ii) Techinical Quality - The techniques used on No.8 and 9 work really well and make a simple subject into something quite different and satisfying.
Your technical standard is generally very good and use of clone tool and other tools shows you are mastering Digital Darkroom techniques.
As the strongest highlight draws the eye I would darken down the right side of the sky in No.5 and carefully lighten or brighten the house to make it stand out as the strongest highlight.
Well done Jill - keep taking the pictures and exploring techniques and subject matter, most of all enjoy your photography.
Biography:
Native of Ukraine, I have been calling San Francisco a second home since 2007. CCSF Came into play in 2011 when I signed up for my 1st class here-Beginning Photography with Erika Gentry. It’s been a creative roller-coaster ride ever since...
Every day brings new challenges, excitements, and hopes. Every day is another story to that inspires and helps to make a few steps towards our goals and dreams...I have a keen visual awareness, and imagery has become my best friend and an expressive tool. I seek beauty in everyday moments and the small details around us. I constantly explore new and unexpected angles, and believe in the magic behind the image.
My dream is to become a visual designer working towards a more sustainable society and use the power of creative forces to make this world a better home for all...
Modern technologies puts a lot of power in our hands, and while anyone can snap a shot, we all should remember the real beauty lies in discovering the essence and revealing the untold...
CCSF Photography and You:
Ever since my first class at City College in Photography Department in 2011, I have been taking my solid steps towards exciting and rewarding career in Photography and Visual Design. I have been a proud student for 3 years! The resources and diverse community of City College had played a huge and important role not only in my life, but in a life of thousands of Bay Area residents who relays on affordable education of high quality.
Artist’s Statement
Full-time school schedule, part-time job, taking care of my home and family and two cats for the past three semesters left me no choice but to keep a digital diary utilizing The Device of today: Instagram (immediate, accessible, easy, satisfying, addictive, social phenomenon).
#beforenovember is a chronologically organized digital record from my Instagram gallery, including images from January to Octobet of 2013. The tiles are 2”by2” and are the actual size as they appear on my iPhone. The grid is the most appropriate format to host 183 images, all generated in Instagram over the past 10 months. Together they form a timeline build from personal experiences.
Each set features one larger image, it has a special story and carries a significant emotional load. It is both a contextual emphasis and visual pause.
The three sets exclude any personal images and lack a human as the main point of interest.
My intention for the audience is to engage with the subject of the images and imagine the person
behind them...
#beforenovember
is an in-Instagram created photographic poem to 2013, a year that took me to the mountains of Ukraine and Lake Tahoe, streets of Chicago, Kiev, Odessa, New York and Montreal, and the forever inspiring home-grounds
of San Francisco. It’s also a digital insta-portrait build from the images of every-day moments.
Artists: Brigitte Dawson and Melissa Turner (Melbourne Murals)
Alice in Wonderland is an age-old classic with universal appeal across generations. It gives the library a colourful, playful and friendly entrance. Melbourne’s Murals artwork engages children while paying homage to the importance of storytime in children’s development.
Artist Bio: Brigitte and Melissa are visual storytellers with 40 years’ experience and a keen eye for detail. They teamed up ten years ago to beautify walls in streets, homes and businesses. They love the large scale canvases that the streets offer. Painting in abstract and realism, Melbourne Murals tell whatever story the surface, site or customer wants to reveal. The love of wildlife is their passion. They strive to bring a visual awareness to the plight of our endangered animals and hope that they can remind everyone just how amazingly wonderful our earth is.
Gazella thomsonii
During migration, as tommies spread out over the plains in the wake of zebra and wildebeest herds, the strongest males set up territories. They use an exaggerated display posture when urinating or defecating on dung piles. To mark the boundaries the males deposit a small amount of secretion from their scent glands (located beneath the eyes) onto a blade of grass, leaving these markers daily about every 20 feet. As the herd migrates, new territories are established.
The females along with their immature offspring form groups of five to 50 that wander through male territories. The groups change members and numbers from hour to hour, so no obvious patterns of hierarchy or leadership emerge. Nonterritorial males gather together in small groups along the outskirts of the larger herd, generally avoiding other male territories unless one of the group attempts to take one over.
In the early morning and again in the evening, the herd, which may have spread out during the day, comes together. This is playtime for the younger gazelles, when they engage in stotting and pronking (bouncing along on stiff legs) and sprint around the perimeter of the herd.
The relatively silent tommies rely on visual awareness of one another to stay in contact. Their distinctive coloring may help-they can contract the skin so the black side stripe becomes more obvious. They also stamp their front feet to signal when they are disturbed.
Kilimanjaro Safari
Walt Disney World-Animal Kingdom-Orlando Fl.
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Before taking the T189 OU photographic course I had only taken family photos on a compact camera. This short 10 week course was the first time I had used a DSLR. Prior to this the only photo editing I had done was a bit of cropping and adjusting brightness and contrast, I had never used Photoshop before.
I passed the ECA with 95% (mark for the CMA was 98%):
Part 1 Visual Awareness: Outstanding
Part 1 Technical Quality : Excellent
Part 2 Written Component: Excellent
Comments were:
Part 1 (i) Visual Awareness - An excellent set of images my favourite of which is the Teddy Bears as I love the warm bright yellow against the grey monochrome of the other bears. An excellent and well thought out choice of colour and mono mix.
I think the scrabble picture is "inspired" and amusing excellent demonstration of using differential focus and choosing the right point of sharpest focus
I appreciated your comparison and contrast of the two pictures of the landscape with cool colours which is a peaceful landscape with an added bonus of the well placed house and the drama and vibrancy of the colours in No.7.
I like your triple image the three different colours used maked a picture which has impact out of a fairly simple subject. Good composition and use of reflections on No.4. The jumping boy image has impact as does the simple image of the bottle. The simple image of the swans head shows a different type of "seeing" to the complex image of the Honeysuckle which for me is one of your best images and the work that you put into it was worth the effort.
Part 1 (ii) Techinical Quality - The techniques used on No.8 and 9 work really well and make a simple subject into something quite different and satisfying.
Your technical standard is generally very good and use of clone tool and other tools shows you are mastering Digital Darkroom techniques.
As the strongest highlight draws the eye I would darken down the right side of the sky in No.5 and carefully lighten or brighten the house to make it stand out as the strongest highlight.
Well done Jill - keep taking the pictures and exploring techniques and subject matter, most of all enjoy your photography.
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HexArmor Gloves - The Chrome Series
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Muswellbrook artist Max Watters established his subject matter early - the rural landscapes of the Upper Hunter Region - and focused on this setting for most of his career. He was known not only for his artistic talent but also his generous philanthropic nature. While developing his own artistic career Max also began collecting art, eventually amassing one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in regional Australia. In 2004, Max donated his art collection to the Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre so that residents and visitors alike could enjoy in perpetuity his vision: to provide art education for generations to come, to inspire visual awareness and curiosity and to promote cultural tourism in the region.
Before taking the T189 OU photographic course I had only taken family photos on a compact camera. This short 10 week course was the first time I had used a DSLR. Prior to this the only photo editing I had done was a bit of cropping and adjusting brightness and contrast, I had never used Photoshop before.
I passed the ECA with 95% (mark for the CMA was 98%):
Part 1 Visual Awareness: Outstanding
Part 1 Technical Quality : Excellent
Part 2 Written Component: Excellent
Comments were:
Part 1 (i) Visual Awareness - An excellent set of images my favourite of which is the Teddy Bears as I love the warm bright yellow against the grey monochrome of the other bears. An excellent and well thought out choice of colour and mono mix.
I think the scrabble picture is "inspired" and amusing excellent demonstration of using differential focus and choosing the right point of sharpest focus
I appreciated your comparison and contrast of the two pictures of the landscape with cool colours which is a peaceful landscape with an added bonus of the well placed house and the drama and vibrancy of the colours in No.7.
I like your triple image the three different colours used maked a picture which has impact out of a fairly simple subject. Good composition and use of reflections on No.4. The jumping boy image has impact as does the simple image of the bottle. The simple image of the swans head shows a different type of "seeing" to the complex image of the Honeysuckle which for me is one of your best images and the work that you put into it was worth the effort.
Part 1 (ii) Techinical Quality - The techniques used on No.8 and 9 work really well and make a simple subject into something quite different and satisfying.
Your technical standard is generally very good and use of clone tool and other tools shows you are mastering Digital Darkroom techniques.
As the strongest highlight draws the eye I would darken down the right side of the sky in No.5 and carefully lighten or brighten the house to make it stand out as the strongest highlight.
Well done Jill - keep taking the pictures and exploring techniques and subject matter, most of all enjoy your photography.
Out in the park again at lunch time - had just found out my Open Uni photography score so was in a very good mood, I got 96% overall, with excellent in visual awareness and technical quality and outstanding for my written thing. Very chuffed indeed!
18.03.10
Before taking the T189 OU photographic course I had only taken family photos on a compact camera. This short 10 week course was the first time I had used a DSLR. Prior to this the only photo editing I had done was a bit of cropping and adjusting brightness and contrast, I had never used Photoshop before.
I passed the ECA with 95% (mark for the CMA was 98%):
Part 1 Visual Awareness: Outstanding
Part 1 Technical Quality : Excellent
Part 2 Written Component: Excellent
Comments were:
Part 1 (i) Visual Awareness - An excellent set of images my favourite of which is the Teddy Bears as I love the warm bright yellow against the grey monochrome of the other bears. An excellent and well thought out choice of colour and mono mix.
I think the scrabble picture is "inspired" and amusing excellent demonstration of using differential focus and choosing the right point of sharpest focus
I appreciated your comparison and contrast of the two pictures of the landscape with cool colours which is a peaceful landscape with an added bonus of the well placed house and the drama and vibrancy of the colours in No.7.
I like your triple image the three different colours used maked a picture which has impact out of a fairly simple subject. Good composition and use of reflections on No.4. The jumping boy image has impact as does the simple image of the bottle. The simple image of the swans head shows a different type of "seeing" to the complex image of the Honeysuckle which for me is one of your best images and the work that you put into it was worth the effort.
Part 1 (ii) Techinical Quality - The techniques used on No.8 and 9 work really well and make a simple subject into something quite different and satisfying.
Your technical standard is generally very good and use of clone tool and other tools shows you are mastering Digital Darkroom techniques.
As the strongest highlight draws the eye I would darken down the right side of the sky in No.5 and carefully lighten or brighten the house to make it stand out as the strongest highlight.
Well done Jill - keep taking the pictures and exploring techniques and subject matter, most of all enjoy your photography.