Photos from "Seeing The Light"

Selected pictures and candids from our first class -- "Seeing The Light" at the Newport Art Museum. A  great group of like minded folks who love photography and who embraced this workshop with much enthusiasm.  Some favorites:  #1 by Lisa Colburn, #2 by Lew Keen, #3 by Frank Leith, and #4 by Tera Tucker.  Next week… Natural Lighted Portraits. 

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Bight sunny day in Jamestown

I've never believed the only time to take landscape pictures is first light, last light. Here's my tree again. This was around 3 PM and the clouds were pretty.
Jan Armor

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Advice for photographers

Advice for photographers from David Alan Harvey


David Alan Harvey

What advice would you give young photographers?
You must have something to “say”. You must be brutally honest with yourself about this. Think about history , politics, science, literature, music, film, and anthropology. What affects does one discipline have over another? What makes “man” tick? Today , with everyone being able to easily make technically perfect photographs with a cell phone, you need to be an “author”. It is all about authorship, authorship and authorship. Many young photographers come to me and tell me their motivation for being a photographer is to “travel the world” or to “make a name” for themselves. Wrong answers in my opinion. Those are collateral incidentals or perhaps even the disadvantages of being a photographer. Without having tangible ideas , thoughts, feelings, and something almost “literary” to contribute to “the discussion”, today’s photographer will become lost in the sea of mediocrity. Photography is now clearly a language. As with any language, knowing how to spell and write a gramatically correct “sentence” is , of course, necessary. But, more importantly, today’s emerging photographers now must be “visual wordsmiths” with either a clear didactic or an esoteric imperitive. Be a poet, not a technical “writer”. Perhaps more simply put, find a heartfelt personal project. Give yourself the “assignment” you might dream someone would give you. Please remember, you and only you will control your destiny. Believe it, know it, say it.

David Alan Harvey’s Magnum Portfolio

Jan Armor

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Cape Town Colors

Revisiting some images from Africa today, prepared for a presentation about our trip.These from a Dutch neighborhood in Cape Town.

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Jan Armor

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