Thursday, January 23, 2014

Digital Photography 101 with Joanne Minor Starts Tonight January 23, 2014

Hey, I'm sending out a last minute reminder that I have a Digital Photography 101 Class starting up tonight at the Westbrook Community Center and it is not too late to sign up!  Here is the link

All you need is your digital camera, one that has manual mode options, your camera manual, and a desire to learn something new!  It's fun!  I've posted a few pictures below from a former student....and I've taken the liberty to copy and paste what some of my students said about the class when it was over.  The photos represent the basics of what you will learn.  How to control the "speed" of your shutter so you get the results in your photo that you want...Buzz Lightyear is my trusty prop...fast spinning lights is a slow shutter...freezing the lights...that's a fast shutter.  The naked troll with the beautiful "bokah" lights in the background...you will learn how to do this too.  Thank you to former student Bridget DeRoche for sharing with us these photos she took in class.







...and here are some of the comments from my last class.

"Thanks for the fun class.  You opened my eyes up to explore with my camera more! I enjoyed your class because it was laid back and not TOO technical.  Easy to follow."

"I wanted to thank you for the incredible amount of knowledge I acquired while in class and I can honestly say that I would not have learned so much on my own.
I appreciate all the info that you have given us and the ability to send me out to shoot great pics"

and if you need any more encouragement to come out one night a week and learn something new, you can read a blog post I wrote last March, featuring photos from Elizabeth, a former student HERE

Come on out and have some fun!

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Winter West Festival 2014 Part One Westbrook Maine. A Maine Photographer

January in Maine...can be pretty slow.
Maine in January.  Again slow.
A few folks in our community put their heads together to put on a Winter Fest...to keep many of us from the obvious cabin fever that can easily set in about this time of year.
I volunteered to photograph the events...and was so looking forward to all of it...but particularly the dog sled racing...after all...Joanne and photographing dogs...yes!
But alas...Mother Nature did not play nice.
Some events did go off without a hitch...others have been postponed until February.
The events that I did photograph kept a smile on my face all weekend.
I'm looking forward to more outdoor winter fun in mid February.
Here are some of my hand picked favorites...and I've included the rest of the collection in a slide show below.






if you don't see the slide show below, you can view it at this link.  http://video214.com/play/ucLuNj2yggPfLzqVMsefmA/s/dark

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