See the previous two articles written in this series here: – 2 of 3: Downplaying Your Culture – 3 of 3: Processing The Old Through The New This article is a repost of a guest blog I did for Rear Curtain. Rear Curtain is a great organization run by friends who are seriously passionate about…
(Download the November Wallpaper here – Right click, Save as) Put your pitchforks and torches away, because here it is – November’s Wallpaper This months calendar is a quick image of a few of the stupas at Drepung monastery outside of Lhasa. It’s a fantastic location and one of our stops on our annual Lhasa,…
(Right Click to download the October wallpaper here) I’m on the road for the next two weeks, so I’m posting October’s wallpaper while I still have a decent internet connection albeit a day earlier. Last year we had a great time our or Lhasa, Everest, Nepal Overland tour. I’ve been holding back this background for…
Seeing improvement in our photography can and should be very satisfying . Not seeing progress we want to see can be extremely frustrating and paralyzing. One thing for sure is that it’s often hard to know where we really are as creatives – what areas we have improved in, what areas we need to work on,…
OverView Join Philip Thomas of Novo Studio and Brian Hirschy of Plateau Photo Tours October 15th in downtown Rogers AR for one day of training on mastering the basics of photography and giving your photographic work a strong foundation for moving forward. In one day we will go into in-depth coverage of the following subjects: Basics of…
In late July I went out to the nomad grasslands of eastern Tibet with the intentions of finishing off a portrait series I’d been working on for a while. I’d wanted to walk away with around eight shots that I’d been envisioning for a while – some of the shots I’d been thinking about (read:…
OVERVIEW Foundations workshop is focused on strengthening your abilities to see and create images that utilize an advanced understanding of where we start out with our cameras and vision. The all-day workshop moves beyond just learning how to make your camera work, and into an area that emphasizes producing images that marry our abilities and…
Living in another culture is a crash course lesson in the unexpected. Learning to simply deal with the unexpected is one thing, but to plan for it and turn the unexpected into an opportunity is another. Living in a place where the electricity, running water, heat, phone, gas or internet are regularly shut off with…