I have been busy the past four Saturdays with a photoshop class. It was a lot of fun, I learned lots & met some great & new photographers.
I made montages/collages of a few photos during the photoshop class...
Castle Mountain Lookout: This is a panorama of 28 individual photos. The views of the surrounding mountains and the Bow River, Trans-Canada Highway, and CP Railway in the valley below are absolutely amazing!
The photo is printed as 40"x17"
Garibaldi Collection: This was one of my early SLR series photos which I have made into various composites and then put together as a collection. Photo is printed as 10"x20"
I lived in Australia for a few years so I obviously took a lot of photos during my stay overseas.
This first photo is very memorable for me. I had gone on a hike with some friends to see this cabin, "Craig's Hut," which is the location for the Australia movie "The Man from Snowy River." The photo was originally taken in colour, but I converted it to B&W and changed the tones of the cabin. This photo is printed as 20"x16"
These 3 statues are part of Melbourne, Australia's beautiful city. The backdrop is eucalyptus tree bark. This photo is printed as 24"x12".
I snapped the photo of the 2 pelicans on the boat by Queenscliff, Australia in 2003. I was always captivated by this photo, yet there was something "missing" which prevented me from printing this photo... until now.
I added some textures and converted the photo to a water-colour, then I added another Australian beach photo of tessalated pavement to the background. I love the final product. I printed this photo as a 10"x8".
Our friends Kevin & Katy have a band called Redhead Mack, and they asked me to take some photographs of the band.
Redhead Mack's album "ISH" had its initial debut last week at a concert here in Calgary. The music was amazing. Check them out at www.redheadmack.com.
"The Group" (left to right): Katy, Gail, Kevin, Dean, Eric
Singer-songwriter & guitarist Kevin:
Just for fun... I put 4 photos together to make this final photo.
Congratulations on the launch of your "Ish" album, Redhead Mack! We look forward to hearing more of your songs!!
We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them. ~ Gene McSweeney
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools. ~ Ken Rockwell
You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory. ~ Author Unknown
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want. ~ Ken Rockwell
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~ Tony Benn
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see. ~ Dorthea Lange
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce
It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. ~James Lalropui Keivom
When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams
I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~Author Unknown
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty
The camera can photograph thought. ~Dirk Bogarde
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~Ansel Adams
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward Steichen
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. ~Author Unknown
A photograph is memory in the raw. ~Carrie Latet
There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! ~DeGriff
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif
All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~Richard Avedon
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. ~Harold Evans, "Pictures on a Page"
You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~Ansel Adams
Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. ~Author Unknown
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine
A photograph is like the recipe - a memory the finished dish. ~Carrie Latet
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. ~Author Unknown
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ~Ansel Adams
Last week, the "B" family came for a photo session. Derek & Christine have a fun sense of adventure & their daughters Heather & Allison were just so sweet! Thanks, guys, for the opportunity to photograph your family!
