by Kim Ort | Nov 14, 2013 | Education, Inspiration, People, Videos
Freeman Patterson and Shampers Bluff, New Brunswick remain two of the biggest inspirations of my photographic life. I attended photography workshops there with Patterson and Andre Gallant in 2001 and 2005. Watch the video below to see how Patterson ensured the...
by Kim Ort | Sep 11, 2013 | A Year with Rilke, Belonging / Connection, Compassion
I’ve been taking Kat Sloma’s self-study course, A Sense of Place, and it’s making me think more about the icons of a place. Here in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, the obvious icon is the clock tower in the center of Main Street. At any given time of...
by Kim Ort | Aug 29, 2013 | Essence, Seeing, Topics
This week I read a fascinating post at Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings site – The Magic and Logic of Color. She refers to a classic book by Josef Albers called Interaction of Color.* Albers is an abstract painter and expert on color theory. The whole article...
