The new website has launched ...
And we are on Twitter and Facebook. Places are selling. It's so exciting.
The newsletter is still coming, I had to wait for my fabulous graphic designer and the marketing guru to ride to the rescue, in terms of logo design and site building.
More to follow on them in the weeks ahead, as they are superb. Speedy, efficient, inspired, talented ...
Come wandering in Genoa, Italy.
Today is all about creating ... text for the workshop descriptions, and more text for the Newsletter I'll be sending out soon.
Then I want to process Federico's photographs from those days in Genova. And I have a range of interviews almost ready to publish. And some more to transcribe.
But that photography workshop last Sunday ... it's still making me smile. Ellen sent this photograph she took of Anna.
I led a photography workshop for women on Sunday and all I can tell you is that I absolutely loved it.
My intention was to introduce this small group of women to their cameras ... so that they understood how to use their cameras off Auto, how to work with light and take the best possible photographs.
But I need to mention how much fun it is to bring women together. It's always so powerful somehow. There's a different kind of energy that flies between us all. There are the conversations over lunch, and the curiousity about each others lives, the sharing ...
I know that part of the pleasure I get from putting these workshops together is simply about the people I get spend time with. Remarkable souls.
I am running a photography workshop in April however do let me know if you have a small group of friends or want to work with me one-on-one, and we can work out another date that suits you.
Sunday 6 April, 2014.
We will begin at 10am and work through until 5pm.
(Lunch, with non-alcoholic drinks, included in workshop fee.)
Cost: includes lunch, drinks, an A3 notebook, and a copy of my 38-page e-book, titled Photography Made Beautifully Simple. Usually 65 euro.
I'll send you instructions on how to reach the venue beforehand.
Note: there are just 4 places, allowing for different cameras and giving me the time to work with each person.
The details: I'm launching a series of one-day photography workshops for women who want to take better photographs for their business blogs and/or personal blogs.
Women who don't have the flash camera or time to learn all there is to learn about photography. Women who do have the flash camera and want to know how to use it.
Together, small groups of us, will spend a few hours out in the city and park here in Antwerp, then head back to work on editing our images.
These will be an ongoing series of workshops. If you don't get everything you wanted to know in that first workshop, then come back ... and we'll hang out together and have a good time while we work on the rest.
I will help you with basic things like light, camera shake, and how to photograph people. We can work on how to tell the story of you, your family, or your business.
And how to create photographs you're happy to put out there in public.
I will also introduce you to a very basic but effective editing programme.
Contact me if you are interested, want to book a place, have questions, or requests about topics you're struggling with.
You will receive a free copy of my photography e-book, Photography Made Beautifully Simple, when you sign-up to work with me. It's a book that introduces you to your camera and its functions in small, easy-to-manage pieces and it would be superb if you are familiar with it before our workshop.
I'll be holding the workshops in Antwerp, in Belgium. If you need info about trains, parking and etc, don't hesitate to ask for more information.
All the information about these workshops can be found above, on this post.
I spent a few hours teaching Miss 9 about photography yesterday. Just a slow introduction to the most basic ways of using an SLR. We talked of composition, light and exposure. We did a lot on focus.
And eventually, as per the story that follows, we went to photograph the giraffes. Once there I shared my passion for reflections.
She took it on board but I love what she did. So different to mine but that is the beauty of photography. No one ever sees and captures the same thing. It's always about your own individual way of seeing.
We ran this image through PicMonkey this morning, added a frame and cropped it a little. The light and colour, the composition except for a small crop, it's all hers. It's how she saw ...
And I love it.
