I have always liked celebrating my birthday with a little travel. This year’s destination was Portland, Oregon. Serene planned a great weekend and wow, what a great town! Gorge-ous sights, some of the friendliest folks west of Minneapolis, great food (Pine State Biscuits is amazing…the soundtrack is even better than the food!), and unforgettable signs. Signs?? Yes, signs. I cannot imagine why I wouldn’t visit at least once a year. Loved it.
Last weekend, a couple of friends and I made the trip to Boulder Colorado to participate in a workshop led by the incredible Tyler Stableford. To say that I love his work would be a huge understatement. I can’t remember in which magazine I first saw his work, but it was a few years ago, when I was just stumbling into photography. If you haven’t already clicked on the link above, you owe it to yourself to spend some time perusing his site. It is amazing.
What I wanted to get out of this workshop were some tips on working with clients and models, some of his processing secrets, and maybe some great shots. But Tyler was so great about taking time to understand where each of us were as photographers and encouraging us to push that boundary. For me, that meant thinking much more about the story that my image composition tells, how each element in an image either enhances or detracts from that story, and developing a process for arbitrating the two. If you cannot already tell, I loved it. I got so much more out of the weekend than I anticipated. And I’m planning to attend Tyler’s next workshop in Arches National Park!
Can’t help but shake my head and simply say….AMAZING, and that still doesn’t give what I wish I could say justice, because words sometimes just can’t convey the emotion evoked from such images, but that is what my limited vocabulary can come up with…breathtakingly beautiful images.
Thanks Matt. I appreciate your feedback….especially when it’s positive!!
Dana, your shots are amazing. Mind blowing. That one of the runner striking the ground coming toward you is epic. well done!
We were pretty excited about this weekend on the mountain. Especially when we got upgraded to an awesome 2BR suite upon arrival Friday night. Of course we made some time to goof around in the suite between long days on the mountain. The snow was ok too, although there were a few runs in whiteout blizzard conditions (not caught on camera). On the drive back to Vancouver, we were lucky enough to catch an incredible sunset…just moments before our Avis rental car decided to stop running, stranding us for 2 hours. A great weekend overall. So glad I brought the lighting gear. And nobody is a more patient and willing subject than Serene. As you can see, she is always putting up with (and sometimes contributing to) all my crazy ideas and really makes the images better.
Serene, Emma, and I made the quick trip up to Boise to get in some time with family and on the mountain. Emma wasn’t interested in having her picture taken, but nobody else seemed to mind. I was especially excited about taking some shots up on the hill with a camera that I’d never used before, the Canon S90. I’d bought the camera for work but hadn’t really had a chance to take a look at what it could do. All the outdoor shots here were taken with it, and I’m even more impressed with it than I was when I first read the reviews. Not sure it could sub for the G11, but its definitely a ton of capability in a really small package. I also took the liberty of adding a new panoramic of Bogus Basin ski area to the slideshow up above…a stitched image of 6 shots taken with the S90.
I love Bogus Basin. Used to ski it when I was a kid!
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