A Midweek Update From Fredric
It’s now early Thursday morning here, and we are about to begin our fifth day. While the workshops are nominally a week long, in actuality the teaching takes place on only six days, as the final day, Saturday, is...
Day 5: Storytelling & Celebrations
Another long and productive day for us in Thimphu today, but it was fantastic! We started with our photo critique and then took a break for our class portrait. Will and all of the students got dressed in the...
Day 4: 3,994 Images
Tonight our group edited 3,994 images from today’s shoot. That is either an indication that we’ve been photographing some pretty amazing stuff, or that the kids are drinking too much caffeine. It could also be a little bit of...
Day 3: There’s A Lot Going On
Here’s a breakdown of what today’s schedule looked like: Critique, Lecture: Composition, Portrait Exercise, Lunch, Instructor Slideshow: Sarah Meghan Lee, Shoot on location 1: Youth Center Paro, Shoot on location 2: Town Center Paro, Download, Edit, and Critique, Dinner, Instructor Slideshow: Thomas Kelly This was one busy day! ...
Day 2: Monday, Our First Full Day
Our first full day and WOW! These guys have us floored…and today is only Monday. In one day. This morning we covered two ways of controlling exposure when photographing: aperture and shutter speed. But not only did we get...
Day 1: Man These Guys Are Sharp
This morning we were treated to a wonderful experience. After an early breakfast of muesli and chicken sausages our guide and all around top man Kenzhang took us on a small photo expedition before the students arrived. First we...
Be Careful What You Wish For!
Yesterday, as we were touring around Thimpu shooting and sightseeing, Sakas asked our guide Kalzang if it ever snows in town. Kalzang responded that it’s normal for there to be snow on the mountain tops, but it’s unusual to...
Fredric’s First Post From Bhutan
As you know from Mike Sakas, we arrived safely on Friday. The flight from Bangkok stops in Calcutta, and the ceiling was too low to land, so we circled the Calcutta airport for an hour and were minutes away...
We Are Here!
It’s late and things blend together, time, flights, the landscape we’ve flown over or through (the approach to Paro had us flying low in a valley with mountain tops above us and the narrow valley floor not that far...
Bhutan, Here We Come!
We’re finally on our way to our workshop in Bhutan— here’s a photo of Will, Fred and Sarah at LAX. (By the way, this photo was taken by an LAX security officer…clearly, he hasn’t taken our workshop!) We have...