New photography workshop: “Picture It – Digital Photography Course”
New offering for the Fall – I will be teaching a digital photography course in October and November of this year. The course will provide participants with a foundation of digital image capture and processing. It is aimed at novice and photographers with intermediate skill levels. The course participants will gain necessary knowledge and skills to understand how digital cameras see and record light, how to visualize and compose their images, and to better understand the use of natural and artificial light sources. We will cover the essentials of digital image editing, processing,...
Read MoreCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society – 50 years of caring for the wilderness
A celebratory news The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is launching a special ‘Week for the Wild’ from October 21-26, 2013 to celebrate the 50th anniversary as Canada’s leading national voice for parks and wilderness. CPAWS 50th Anniversary Cocktail Reception – October 23, 2013 As part of these celebrations, CPAWS will host a cocktail reception at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa on October 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., featuring the presentation of the prestigious Harkin Conservation Award to this year’s recipients. The Harkin Award honours individuals who have...
Read MoreSaskatoon watercross race
Last weekend I went down to the Saskatoon River Landing with my coffee buddies Rick Elvin, Bas Hobson, Bob Littlejohn and Scott Prokop to photograph watercross races on the South Saskatchewan River. Watercross is an unusual sport – it can best be described as motocross on water jet skis. Riders zoom around an obstacle course at speeds up to 100 kilometres per hour. About 36 top racers from Canada and the USA took part in the 2013 Western Canadian Watercross Nationals. The program also included a wakeboarding demonstration (surf boarding on a wake produced by a speed boat that pulls the...
Read MorePhoto Contest – The World We Live In
Canadian photography magazines Photo Life and Photo Solution are inviting photographers to submit their best work to The World We Live In photo contest. There are three main themes: Humanity – Each person has a story to tell. Capture images of people around you; show some of the many facets of humanity. The Environment – Show the outstanding beauty of our living world, whether through wide landscapes or close-ups of natural elements, animals, plants or insects. Interconnections – Humans are by nature interactive beings. Show how we transform and create things. Contest is...
Read MoreLandscape Photography Workshop a success
Big thank you to enthusiastic photographers who attended the Landscape Photography and Basic Digital Workflow photo workshop on Sunday. We had a full slate of participants not only from the Saskatoon area, but places further away; Beverly and Gail drove up from Regina, and Patricia came from Big River. The format that I chose for half-day photo workshops at the Ancient Spirals Retreat is working as planned. We had an introductory tutorial where I covered the topic of ‘light in the landscape’. After a short break with treats, I talked about the basics of digital capture and then...
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