by Kim Ort | Apr 1, 2014 | Perspective, Photo By Design 1, Possibilities, Practices, Visual Design
This week in my Photo By Design workshop, we’re exploring perspective. One photographic exercise for this topic is to take at least 24 shots of one subject from all different angles. I’ve done this many, many times and it’s always enlightening as...
by Kim Ort | Jan 2, 2014 | Possibilities, Questions, Simplicity / Minimalism
Back in December I posted a link to Susannah Conway’s Unravelling workbook, an excellent, in depth way to reflect on the past year and to look ahead to the next. Sandra (from Reflections and Nature) wrote: All the elements of the right mindset sound good, but...
by Kim Ort | Oct 24, 2013 | Abstraction, Essence, Going Abstract, Photography, Possibilities, Workshops
Abstractions reveal essence. What is essence? The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something that determines its character. By going close in with this red tulip, I saw its indispensable qualities of redness, yellowness, smoothness, curves, and inner glow....