This past Sunday, I was very grateful for an opportunity to speak at the Harford Photographic Arts Society meeting in Bel Air, MD. It was very exciting to see a relatively new club and the energy that they have to build their organization. In the short time since their founding, the small group is already diverse with young members and seasoned shooters, working assignments and sharing work together.
I put together a presentation called “Shooting in the Gaps” with an underlying theme of using camera movements and motion as ways to keep shooting when conditions are less than ideal or times when one is feeling less than inspired. Beyond the “blurry” pictures and color studies, I tried to keep things a bit grounded with a few dynamic motion composition concepts, such as flowing water, sea and cloudscapes, etc. They asked me to speak for 40 minutes and I think my talk approached 75, which they didn’t seem to mind. Hopefully a message of having fun and experimenting was well received.
Here is a sampling of the work I shared:
