We finished working on the edit last night a little bit earlier than usual and were able to head out to dinner around 9 pm! Now to some of you that may sound like a late-night, but, you’d be...

Every Friday of a beginning workshop is a twisted kind of fun, at least for us tech guys/gals. I’m gonna have to keep this a short one because it’s absolute madness here. In a nutshell, we, the staff, spend...

The plan this morning was to be loaded into cars and on our way to our first location by 8:15 am. We were to arrive at the Instituto Nuevo Amanecer by 9 am, go through an orientation to familiarize...

I can’t start today’s blog without taking a minute to talk about the parrots. Below is a sound recording, and trust me when I say that you’ll want to listen to this! Apparently, several years ago, someone involved in...

I don’t know if we’ve ever done this with one of our blog posts before, but, as we’re always going on about how hectic these workshops can be…I thought the format of a schedule may better convey just how...

The moment when a photographer makes a photograph, he or she makes decisions in two realms simultaneously: aesthetically and technically. The photographer, let’s call her Alma, sees something that sparks a response and decides to make an image using...

One of my all-time favorite mountain rescue instructors began a workshop with this, “open mouth, insert firehose.” By 11 am we had already covered Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, depth of field, motion blur, and the concept of metering for...

For the first time since arriving, I opened the curtains when I woke and saw the faint glow of the sun rising instead of the deep dark of the early morning.  After a long flight and a few sleepless...

Sadly, breakfast was served a little bit later this morning on account of our students needing to get their bags packed and get checked out before class this morning.  Our advanced workshops go by so quickly!  We just get...

A quick bit of housekeeping: yesterday when I wrote the blog, I totally forgot to mention one of the amazing women who put this thing together…Viridiana Reynoso please forgive me! Without you, we wouldn’t be here!!! For those of...