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Dear "You",
I just returned to Santa Fe about 10 days ago from a 3 week trip to California. I spent much of the first week on assignment photographing gnarly, 120 year old, Zinfandel vines in the Wine Country of Sonoma and Napa. Mostly dormant at this stage but I'll be back again in August before Harvest. This has been another "eye-opener" as to how an assignment or some other external necessity can prod us into making wonderful photographs we would likely never dream of doing otherwise! I sort of think of this one as "Mr. America"!
Followed that with a wonderful (yet small) workshop for the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite - high water and great weather. For the Spring 2010 workshop we're going to try for early May dates so the Dogwood will hopefully be more developed. We have another Fall Yosemite workshop scheduled for October 14-18 this year - low water, but the High Country is usually still open!
More workshop stuff follows!
Cheers,
alan@rossimages.net
www.alanrossphotography.com
WORKSHOP UPDATES
Road Trip 2009
I have scheduled the Road Trip workshop for July 6-11, starting with a dinner at my house on the 5th and ending back in Santa Fe or somewhere near on the 11th. Among the sites I plan for field work and camp-over is at the Bisti Badlands Wilderness area of Western New Mexico- an area I for some reason have never taken the time to explore. Click the link for an eyeful of what some others have done with the area! I plan the trip to be a mix of desert and mountain - Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
One-on-One Workshops: My Place or Yours
I have been doing custom One-on-One workshops here in Santa Fe for over a dozen years, now - but I've also had a lot of fun doing a few of these sessions at "your" place. I have had several people who really wanted/needed a tutorial in their own workspace/environment, and I am happy to travel. Get tuned in with your own enlarger. Need help with darkroom design or function? Want a field session in your own woods? Contact me for info. China? No problem!
Miscellany
Another Adams favorite gone.
Time eventually takes its toll on all living things, and barely five or six weeks ago the iconic Oaktree on the banks of the Merced river in Yosemite, featued in Ansel's Morning, Merced River, tumbled most of its already leafing-out upper being into the river. We wish it well in it's remaining time, grateful for its wonderful form in it's earlier years.
Cheerio!