January class info: Seasonal Rhythms

Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year!

Before we know it, the New Year will roll around again, with a whole world of new areas to explore in !afterclass!

We’ll start off in January with a class on “Seasonal Rhythms.” Some of us will be heading into winter, some into summer. Whatever our hemisphere, the changing seasons lend us the chance to increase our awareness of the world around us. And when we can capture a special seasonal moment in a photograph, we have a record of an encounter or an experience that will last a lifetime.

Exploring seasons will also provide us with the chance to review some of the concepts we learned in 2006. Take a look below at the listing of threads, and you’ll see that the class has been planned to take advantage of tips and techniques that our master teachers provided over the past seven months. And some of those master teachers will be back again to lead various threads, so we hope to have some good continuity here.

So in any quiet moments you can find during this busy holiday season, think about the photographs you have that best show seasonal change. All settings and subjects are welcome if they show a seasonal theme, whether they be rural, urban, landscape, portraits, etc. Though we’ll try not to overlap the content of the excellent “Weather” class, if you want to re-post any of your “weather” photos to support one of the concepts in the threads listed below, that would be fine. This listing is a preliminary look at the areas we will cover - subject to change, as always!

Seasonal Rhythms
January, 2007

PURPOSE:

Using seasonal change as a framework:

• Help people really see the changes going on around them season to season and year to year
• Encourage people to challenge themselves in their photography
• Learn new perspectives and new techniques for taking and processing pictures
• Review concepts presented to the group in 2006
• Promote international dialogue and friendship!


SCHEDULE:

Note: Each week will consist of two threads for a specific season and also several threads which may apply to any season. The numbering sequence of the threads allows for addition of other threads within a given week.

Week One – Thread titles

8.1 - SEASON: Fall
8.2 - Seasonal extremes - find the hottest, coldest, most extreme seasonal phenomena possible – frigid ice, wilting heat, violent storms
8.3 - Chasing the light in different seasons
8.4 - Digital darkroom adventures – fall


Week Two – Thread titles

8.10 - SEASON: Winter
8.11 - Color, form, texture as seasons change
8.12 - Seasons in black and white
8.13 - Seasons, with a focus on people
8.14 - Digital darkroom adventures – Winter


Week Three – Thread titles

8.20 - SEASON: Summer
8.21 - Seasonal compositions
8.22- Miniature worlds (macro), season to season
8.23 - Depth of field
8.24 - Digital darkroom adventures – Summer


Week Four – Thread titles

8.30 - SEASON: Spring
8.31 - Same spot, different season
8.32- Remembering what we’ve learned in previous classes
8.33 - Digital darkroom adventures – Spring

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Great thoughts? Post them here!
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Originally posted by Bitteroot (Edith) at 6:23pm, 21 December 2006 CET

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