Today was a sob fest! The first student to present at graduation could barely get through the first line of her speech.  When the second student came up to introduce herself, there room was already in tears. There wasn’t a...

We’re nearing the end of the workshop, and as always, it’s time to bunker down and check a few last things off our list. We started the day with our last critique of the week and then the students...

After two late evenings in a row, Sarah let us have a late start this morning. We started with a great critique and even had a couple guests join us in the classroom! A couple of the people we...

Today was a hectic one! We had groups going in every direction at different times of the day! Rick and Sarah took their groups to a commons space that hosts a variety of local initiatives, very similar to a...

Today is going to be a big one! If things go well we’ll have two different shooting assignments; one right before lunch and one that will carry us through to dinner. Well…that is of course if the thunderstorms threatening...

First things first, the morning critique. Today is the very first critique for this group of students. This is a huge component of the learning strategy that we use in the workshops. Every morning we sit down and go...

Even though technically it’s our second day, it’s actually our first day of real deep instruction. Sarah and Rick launched into the manual control of the cameras this morning.  Generally, once we get going with these workshops, we rarely...