3 posts tagged “workshop”
Lots going on in the past week, and it's been gratifying to see things on the move again, as I sit here in my new place watching the new day unfold from the sunny corner where my desk is set up, espresso waking me up. After spending a year and a half up in Port St. Lucie in a beautiful house, but in an area so far away from friends, I really looked forward to moving back to Palm Beach county, but of course moving is always a stressful thing.
More exciting is that registrations for this year's Learning to See photography workshops have finally opened! There will be four of them like last year, in August, in San Francisco, Ft. Collins, CO, Nashville, TN, and Portland, ME, and based on response so far this year will be even better than last. They're taught by award-winning podcaster Chris Marquardt of Tips from the Top Floor (www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com) and are a great learning tool as well as a ton of fun.
More exciting is that registrations for this year's Learning to See photography workshops have finally opened! There will be four of them like last year, in August, in San Francisco, Ft. Collins, CO, Nashville, TN, and Portland, ME, and based on response so far this year will be even better than last. They're taught by award-winning podcaster Chris Marquardt of Tips from the Top Floor (www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com) and are a great learning tool as well as a ton of fun.
As I approach the final days of 2007 it causes me to be quite thoughtful, wondering how this past year has measured up compared with others. Well at least compared with 2006.
And as I considered where I was last year, what was going on (more importantly, what was not), for the first time I can ever remember I find that a year later I have had a lot of progress, several important good things, and a good bit of fun too. For example:
And that is what I wish all of you who read this. Good changes. Challenges and learning experiences. And things that make you smile and know you're loved.
And as I considered where I was last year, what was going on (more importantly, what was not), for the first time I can ever remember I find that a year later I have had a lot of progress, several important good things, and a good bit of fun too. For example:
- This time last year I was yearning for some animal company, and I well remember at Christmas feeling this acutely, to the point I couldn't watch anything with kittens in it! But in May that all changed with the arrival of Meimei, who has been that great little companion I wanted, even though she has some bad habits I hope will improve. What a pleasure to wake up in the middle of the night and hear purring at the foot of my bed, and to hear her calling for me when I drive up in the driveway (I can hear her from outside. The creature has some lungs!)
- December 2006 I was quite anxious to be moving on, to get back to all that is familiar and loved back down in Palm Beach county, feeling so adrift and alone here in Port St. Lucie. Being honest, I'd have to say I hated it here, no two ways about it. And now, I have plans to do just that in the early part of 2008, having found a friend with part of her house to share. I'm looking forward to it.
- I was also beating my head against a wall trying to get back into the jobforce. After spending six months or so trying to find something in the printing industry and finding nothing with a future, I changed professions. I got my 4-40 license and now work for Allstate, selling auto and homeowners insurance. I like it! My plan is to do my photography/graphic design on the side and see where that goes but having a dependable job is a life changing thing for me and I'm very thankful.
- On the fun front, I had the very enjoyable responsibility of being the US coordinator for my award-winning German podcaster/photographer friend Chris Marquardt (www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com) as he made his first workshop tour here. Doing this was such a good learning experience, coordinating the helpers in the different locations and trying to organise all the things that go into a successful workshop. Not only that, but I had one of the workshops in my home, and had a chance to have company too. Best of all, he's gonna do another tour in 2008, and he's asked me to do the same. Yay!
And that is what I wish all of you who read this. Good changes. Challenges and learning experiences. And things that make you smile and know you're loved.
I've known him for almost two years. It started with his twice award-winning podcast, Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor, (www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com) which I discovered at the same time I was given a Canon DSLR. I used to ask some pretty silly questions of podcaster and photographer Chris Marquardt then, but he patiently answered them all and made that which was nearly incomprehensible at times to be quite understandable. I found his show to be fun, not boring at all, and most often teaching me something I'd not known about photography before. And now I help with the show, doing odds and ends as needed, and Chris has asked me to help coordinate workshops he's coming to teach here in the US in the fall. That's why the above video is posted. The workshops are called "Learning to See" and are geared to teach how to see a great image in your everyday world. From feedback I get from the ones he's done in his home in Germany, the workshops are fantastic! Really educational, and a lot of fun. And for now at least there are still some spots available in each: Ft. Collins, CO, San Diego, CA, Minneapolis, MN and Port St. Lucie, FL.
Interested? Check out the video!
Interested? Check out the video!
