Let's Shoot

The picture is from my window looking into the parking lot. They still have snow laying around here, which explains why they were so thrilled with the warmer weather when I arrived yesterday. The bellman was raving about it when I checked in. We've seen virtually no snow in NC, and they can't seem to get rid of it here.

Nothing fancy in terms of photos today or this weekend at all. This is not a shooting weekend. We're basically in class all weekend long.

The whole reason I'm here is to get some inspiration. My shooting is virtually non-existant right now, at least in terms of outdoor photography, and I need a quick kick in the seat of the pants to get me out doing some shooting again.

This is not a bad place to do it.

I've deliberately avoided most of the more technical sessions, those being run by Tim Grey. Couple of reasons. One, Tim is the Photoshop guru and will be dealing with 'darkroom' stuff. That's staying inside and working with the computer. Not our shooting. Contrary to my goals for the weekend.

Second, Tim is dealing with workflow issues. I'm trying to implement workflows from Dan Krogh. Don't want to cloud the issues.

Instead I listen to Jim Clark and Richard Day most of the day. Jim talks about compostion and Richard about photographing birds and butterflies in your own back yard. In addition, Richard challenges us with a mini 'workshop' to set some goals for our photography. Jim concludes the day telling us how to get published. That put a damper on the day. Not terribly encouraging if you wan to do this in a part time fashion.

The final session of the day is the conference paticipant 'show.' I didn't know this was going to happen but probably wouldn't have participated even had I brought photos to show. However, this was more encouraging. There was some really incredible work here. But there was some average work here. I can do that average work. I just need to get out and shoot more.

Let's shoot!