Tag: 2012 Vancouver

  • Lighthouse Park

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    Lighthouse Park

    Probably not more than 20 km away from my snow shot a top Cypress Mountain is Lighthous Park.  No snow there; just wind and rain.  Reaching the lighthouse invovled a walk of about 1 km through a stand of Douglas Firs.  

  • Cypress Mountain

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    Cypress Mountain

    After completing of the Freeman Patterson workshop I drove up to Cypress Mountain; I was looking for snow.  I wanted a shot where the trees were encrusted with snow and ice. While it was mostly cloudy and raining in Vancouver, it was snowing up in the mountains.  I found what I was looking for in the…

  • Honda SUV

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    Honda SUV

    As noted in an earlier post, I recently attended a photography workshop hosted by Freeman Patterson.  For one of the exercises each student was assigned a spot in the lane from which he could not move.  We were stationed in our respective positions for one and one half hours. The purpose of such an exercise…

  • Vancouver Workshop

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    Vancouver Workshop

    Last week I attended a lecture and follow-on workshop with Freeman Patterson.  I’ve read a couple of his books, but there is nothing quite like the in-person experience.   In the lecture he presented and discussed a number of his photographs.  As in the workshop, the discussion was about design or composition of the image.…