Week #47

San Francisco - Chinatown

Here is another image from my San Francisco street photography class with Valerie Jardin. I usually shoot my street photography in black and white, mostly because I love the simplicity it brings to the image. Sometimes though the image you are trying to capture calls for the complexity of color. That's when I turn to the classic chrome setting on my camera. This was one of those times.  Using color helps to tell the story of this woman and the world that surrounds her.

See you on the streets!

Week #43

Light On The Wall

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever.....It remembers the little things, long after we have forgotten everything."

Aaron Siskind

Week #42

Street Reflection

Here is another shot from my Paris workshop. Though street photography usually implies that there are people included in the image, there are times when the urban landscape is enough in and of itself. Here the street had just been washed down leaving this wonderful puddle of water to reflect back the street scene. 

Week #41

Walking to the Louvre

I've just been back home for a few days from Paris but the sights and sounds of the city are still fresh in my heart. What brought me to the City of Lights was a Street Photography workshop taught by Valerie Jardin. What I left Paris with is a new love for this city and most of all for street photography.

We explored many of the iconic sites of the city but Valerie always urged us to try to look in fresh ways, capturing the city as an urban landscape with the human element. This day we were walking into the courtyard of the Louvre. Hopefully I was successful capturing the sense of place but in a new way.

Valerie is a gifted teacher and I would recommend anyone who wishes to explore this area of photography to sign up for one of her workshops. As an extra bonus, the participants are also amazing and fun people that just add to a great experience.

See you on the street! 

Week #39

 Waiting For Time

Today was the first day of our Paris Photography workshop with Valerie Jardin. What a great group of participants and of course how wonderful to spend a week learning from one of the best Street Photographers in the world. Stayed tuned for more images from my week in Paris.

Week #36

My Week in Images

Sunrise in the Park

Looking Up

Waiting

This week I was on a mission to figure out which of my cameras I should take to Paris. I would like to take just one camera with me so I am deciding between my Fuji XT10 and my Fuji X100T. Both are small cameras, which is very important for me, but one has a fixed lens and the other I could bring along several prime lenses. It's important to me to keep my equipment simple since I don't want my equipment to get in way of the experience. 

For the entire week I shot with my Fuji X100T. This is such a great camera, so easy to tuck in my purse and take with me all week. These images were taken around the town where I live. I tried a little landscape, street, and abstract photography to get a sense of using the camera in a variety of environments. 

I'm pleased with the results so this decision is going to be much harder than I thought. Stayed tuned for next week when I put my Fuji XT10 through the same paces.