by Kim Ort | Nov 25, 2014 | Lines, Visual Design, Visual Journalling
I’ve been doing a short course on creating mandalas (circles) by the wonderfully creative Julie Gibbons. Gibbons describes the etymology of the Sanskirt word mandala – ‘manda’ meaning essence and ‘la’ meaning container. A mandala circle...
by Kim Ort | Nov 6, 2014 | Abstraction, Colour, Essence, Visual Design
Although I fell in love with photography in a darkroom processing black and white prints, I’ve been strictly a colour girl since going digital in 2007. I’ve converted the occasional image to black and white, but I love colour. It has an emotional pull for...
by Kim Ort | Oct 30, 2014 | Photography, Visual Design, Visual Journalling
In my last post, I talked about learning to critique your own photographs. And, I promised to share an exercise that I’ve been doing that can help us begin to express our experience. In Chapter 10 of Sean Kernan’s book, Looking into the Light, he talks...
