Day 1 of Rekindling the Creative Spirit has come to an end. Below are a couple of my favorite quotes from the day: “Neutrality is being in a place of peace” – Rikki Cooke talking about approaching your subject matter in neutral, without preconceptions to cloud your vision. “When I’m connected to the source, I [...]
2011 Rekindling the creative Spirit photography workshop on Molokai, Hawaii began today. Afterburners go…
On a recent trip to Beijing, China I met a fabulous violinist named Lin. As a violin player myself there was an instant connection and through the course of the evening I got to hear Lin’s story. Lin, had always wanted to play the violin, but came of age during the cultural revolution when the [...]
I’m sitting in front of my laptop computer as is often the case after a photo shoot trying to sort the keepers from the flops. I’m so tired from rising up before the sun to bump down a red dirt road in order to be in the place of maximum potential this morning that its [...]
The following is a quote from a great photographer and friend, Aaron Raymond: Reality is personal, subjective, and fluid. It changes, as memory changes, with time and experience. Our perception of events and even our interpretation of color are altered by our environment and factors as arbitrary as our mood. The sensory data from which [...]
Something that really clicked for me yesterday was the idea that there are two ways to fill my cup. I can fill it with external things like possessions, peoples approval and accomplishments – but these always seem to drain out quickly and I wind up on a never ending treadmill of trying to get more [...]
The front porch of the Hi Hoolana neatly frames a stunning panorama from the island of Lanai, to the King Kamehameha palm grove all the way over to the west end of the island of Molokai. For those of you who haven’t visited the Hui for a photo workshop, the front porch is not only [...]
When it comes to sleep patterns, I have two modes in my life. Assignment mode, when I get up long before the sun to catch the sweet light of the first rays of dawn, and everything else mode, when I prefer to let the day start at a decidedly more leisurely rate paced by a [...]
Rikki often says it not about me taking the picture, but about the picture taking me. The phrase what will I be taken by today? regularly enters my mind when I am shooting. Its simplicity disarming the inner critic that tells me that I have to go make a good picture. Its a phrase that [...]
Driving the red dirt road to Kamakou preserve on Molokai, one could easily mistake the landscape for western Tanzania. Grassy plains surrounded by wind sculpted trees make my eye look for the giraffe that will never walk into my frame. Today we found ourselves bouncing down this road in spite of the rain that insists [...]
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