by Kim Ort | Nov 29, 2011 | Books, Contemplation, Photo By Design 1, Photography, Possibilities, Seeing, The Practice of Contemplative Photography
Chapter 2 of The Practice of Contemplative Photography (paid link), by Andy Karr and Michael Wood, is called “Art in Everyday Life,” and it is full of gems. It speaks of the constantly changing life around us every day. In the first week of my...
by Kim Ort | Oct 28, 2011 | Photo By Design 1, Photography, Textures / Patterns, Workshops
This week on Photo By Design, my online workshop, we focused on texture and patterns. And, they are everywhere, up in the sky, at our feet, all of the natural and created patterns in our environment. By blurring or panning an image, we can create an appearance of...
by Kim Ort | Aug 30, 2011 | Photo By Design 1, Photography, Workshops
It was the third week of October, 2001 when my friend Carol and I boarded a plane from Indianapolis to Saint John, New Brunswick for our long-awaited, week long photography workshop with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant. Only three weeks after 9/11, we had debated...