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Walk a Mile – Join the 1% Club
Want to feel like you have a National Park all to yourself? Join the 1% club. Rangers say less than 1% of visitors walk more than a mile. This can make a big difference when you’re photographing. For...
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Photography – My Favorite Form of Exercise
Photography is my favorite form of exercise. Sometimes you walk a lot. Sometimes you walk in challenging terrain. I love walking in dunes. It’s great exercise. Low impact. Lots of climbing. You lose...
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Spend A Little Extra Time
Whenever you can, spend a little extra time before and/or after a workshop (or any business trip for that matter). You go to great places. You always want more time. You might want to see a location...
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SCAMPER
SCAMPER Having trouble coming up with new ideas? Get thousands of ideas with one word. Try SCAMPER. In 1939 advertising executive Alex Osborn, “the father of brainstorming”, first proposed a set of...
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Breaking the Rules
In his book Photography and the Art of Seeing, Freeman Patterson offers excellent advice. List all of the rules of photography. Then break them. If you do this, you’ll develop a better understanding...
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Eyes Wide Shut
“Seeing with your skin means to use more than just your eyes to observe and listen to others. You can sense with deeper perception and consciousness. Use all of you. The more you can feel, the better...
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Photography – My Favorite Exercise
Photographing. It’s my favorite form of exercise. You walk, climb, squat, bend, reach, stretch and more – much more. You lose track of time and how far you’ve gone. You just keep going. You always...
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Creativity Exercises
Looking for new perspectives? Try these practices. 22 Ways to Find Inspiration How do I find inspiration? Eyes Wide Shut Tap into your other senses. Gesture Connect with the implied motion in...
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Why Defocussing Your Images Will Help You See Them Better
It’s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. We’re capable of seeing a lot of detail. Sometimes detail is distracting. Eliminating it can help us see fundamentals more clearly. 1 Frame an...
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