"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Hank Morgan in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain
The world in winter may look dull. The Motel 6 room in which you are trapped every night for a week when your work ships you to Omaha for a conference may seem to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Your kitchen on a rainy Saturday, the commute you have to work each morning, or the parking lot in the back of World War III bunker-style office building where you work may all seem to have no redeeming visual qualities at all, but that's just because your imagination is out of focus.
This is the tune-up you need!
Pick up a copy of this book
https://www.amazon.com/Photographers-Mind-Creative-Thinking-Digital/dp/0240815173
The Photographer's Mind, by Michael Freeman, is another great creative thinking book. Freeman breaks the creative approach into Intent, Style, and Process, exploring the concepts chapter by chapter, each with intriguing names, such as "layers of subject, different beauty, chiché and irony, classical balance, opposition, and engineered disorder."
This is an out-door, in-door workshop with a lot of roaming around St. Louis - parks, public buildings, and maybe a bit of urbex. You will be challenged and grow, complete with an end-of-day critique.
We'll start with an overview of the chapters and then go out to apply what we've learned. We'll break for an hour to grab some lunch somewhere before going back out to get more images and return to the St. Louis Photo Authority® studio for our critique.
Bring your camera with a fully charged battery (or two) and an empty memory card. We will be shooting jpeg files and will limit ourselves to shooting 100 total images during the day. No erasures allowed. The images must be sequentially numbered; this is, after all, a visualization exercise, so contemplation of the viewfinder's contents is encouraged.
This group is limited for the benefit of the participants to 10 people, so sign up now!
