Throughout the week of teaching during each of our workshops, all of the instructors show their work to the students. It is extremely inspirational as well as instructive. Not surprisingly, the students’ work often reflects the techniques seen in...
In the end, the Nicaragua chapter of the FR Photography Workshops turned out just fine, thank you. But getting there tested all of the strengths of the program, and in the end it proved itself to be more than...
As we awoke Saturday morning, the fog filled the valley and from the balcony of the La Sombra to the point where you could barely discern the trees at the edge of the property. The bird singing in the...
Yesterday, two of our student groups did a location shoot at a forest reserve where Cen, a local NGO, sponsors a honey production and job training program. The organization trains people from local communities to properly care for bees,...
I wanted to share some photos from a location shoot with our students in Santa Rosa, a small village near El Cua in northwestern Nicaragua. We photographed the school children and the villagers to teach our students about storytelling...
It seemed a little weird to me that we would begin our longest day of photography for the week with an hour-long walk at 6AM, but our students were somehow up for it. Yesterday, I got up way too...
A soft rain falls in the forest between clear patches in the morning sky, sunlight streaming through cracks in the canopy. It’s quiet this morning, though before 6 AM our students are already out wandering around the grounds of...
Man, our translators got a workout today and there were plenty of hiccups for all of us! The first started several days ago when we discovered that we were not going to be able to get the cameras we...
We loaded into a giant white bus and set out north from Managua toward the mountains, Macizos Peñas Blancas. Multi-storied complexes of malls and food courts shrank into single-story concrete and tin-roofed shops, and then into small wooden kiosks...
This week, our team will be headed to the rainforests of Nicaragua for the next Fredric Roberts Photography Workshop with Save the Children. While our workshop in Bhutan last January was as exotic for me as landing in Shangri-La,...