Seeing the Light, 2009 was a wonderful success. Old friends and new explored what it means to be a photographer, and what it means to see – both before the shutter is clicked and after. Stay tuned for a 2010 announcement!
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I must have passed this cross covered with leis twenty times before I noticed it on the solitary stretch of Kamehameha highway by the sea on the island of Molokai. It was located on a blind curve so I franticly took my frames while standing in the middle of the road as a friend [...]
Elliot Erwitt once famously wrote: …photography was little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
It is with this thought in mind that one of my mentor’s Paul Liebhardt and I decided to craft a photography workshop to be offered on the beautiful island of Molokai, Hawaii [...]
FISH IN THE FILTER
The massive cumulonimbus clouds ripe with rain were well over a month away from rolling atop the blue hills of the Western Ghat mountain range in Tamil Nadu and enveloping the region in the mist of monsoon. My pet project for the dry season at the photographic college where I was teaching [...]
My week of helping teach the photography workshop at the Hui Ho’olana on Molokai with fellow instructors, Rikki Cooke, Dewitt Jones and Theresa Airey has drawn to a close and I can feel the gravity of the mainland pulling me back into its orbit. Leaving the slow pace of life on Molokai to return to [...]
Dewitt Jones
Hear Dewitt Jones read one of his columns from Outdoor Photographer. © Dewitt Jones 2009, All rights reserved. Used with permission.
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A chance to slow down and regroup today at the Hui Hoolana. A chance to notice the details, soak in the sun, relax and look at the images that have been taking us all [...]
Pigeons, known as the Molokai Rainbows, fly on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. The pigeons are colored with food dye and are released at special events on the islands of Molokai and Maui. For more information email Clay.
Richard Cooke telling the story of Bungalow Bill
Hear Rikki tell the true story of Bungalow Bill. Recorded on [...]
Halawa valley, Molokai, Hawaii.
Hear Rikki read “Seeing Simply.” © Richard A Cooke III. Used with permission.
Seeing-Simply
WHY IT CLICKS
I’m walking down a dusty street in Madurai, India at midnight with close friends, Paul Liebhardt and Dan & Janine Patitucci. At this point in my life, I had been living in Tamil Nadu for over a [...]
Musicians performing ‘Kaulana Wailua’ during the annual photographic workshop at the Hui Hoolana on Molokai, Hawaii. Listen to the audio by clicking the play button below.
Kaulana Wailua
ROCKS AND TREES
It wasn’t long ago that I was standing in front of some of the most famous photographs of all time at the Boise, Idaho art museum. On the [...]
The opening of the circle chant.
Click the play button to hear Bronwyn’s opening chant.
Old friends and new have arrived at the Hui for its annual photographic workshop on the island of Molokai. Formally opening the week, Bronwyn Cooke chants a song in Hawaiian that translates to the following: “Grant us, grant us, grant us, the [...]
The moon is radiant and clear bathing the ground in her pale light. Under a cloudless sky, the trade wind blows through the Koa forest and only the brightest stars are visible. Regulus and Leo take my vision, their light captivates me. Light that started its journey before I was born to reach this earth. [...]
Photo by, Richard A. Cooke III
The happy week has been a blur. Old friends, new friends, good food, good wine, good talk, and lots of laughter – the sum total of being alive and open and free. Tonight we gave a slide show of the images everyone created during the week, and the images sang [...]
4:30 am alarm. Dark outside. Sleep fills my mind and whispers for me to stay in bed. Come back, it says. You don’t really need to get up. You can stay in this comfortable bed. Wouldn’t you rather dream than take photographs this morning? Then something wakes up just enough to swing my legs off [...]
A long nondescript path rolls gently downhill through the moss filled forest where sound is dampened and all that remains is the hiss of the ocean wind through the treetops. Although they cannot yet be seen, the 2000-foot precipice diving down to the Pacific Ocean alerts my soul as I walk towards one of the [...]
I find my mind wandering even as I speak to what lies beyond the technique and into the meat of the whole reason we do this. The vision. If technique without vision is meaningless and vision without technique is blind, Photoshop is the ultimate conundrum!
Nothing. I have nothing. I have no camera, yet i have access to every camera i could ever need. Vision. I have nothing, but have access to a landscape and a world that excites me every time i see it. Empty. My vision feels empty until out on the rocks something turns my head. How [...]
Rekindling the Creative Spirit – the title and intent of our week on Molokai. Today, enough baco bits of wisdom have been sprinkled on the proverbial salad bar of life to float us for the rest of the seminar — and we are just getting warmed up! It is an interesting week for me, because [...]
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