Santa Fe Photo Workshop

I spent many hours at the Santa Fe Workshops in the classroom discussing issues involved in digital travel photography, but I spent even more time outside the classroom shooting assignments in various places in New Mexico. Nevada is a remarkably effective teacher. Our class included a mix of levels, ranging from beginners to professional photographers, including a photography teacher, me. Yet Nevada was able to address the needs of every one of us, teaching with patience, passion, and compassion. When the workshop ended, the beginners had made some splendid travel images and were ready for more, the pros had knowledge they did not have before, everyone's vision had been substantially refined and refocused.

My photographic intentions are usually focused on interpretation, rather than description, and I wanted the pictures I made during these workshop assignments to express how I felt about what I saw. I'll share with you some of the images I made during the workshop as well as some of the goals, challenges and circumstances that make up the story behind each photograph. Although all of these photographs were digitally enhanced to some degree (I've edited all of these images with Adobe Photoshop to correct and refine the hue, color, contrast and sharpness levels, making them more vibrant and colorful,) none of the content has been digitally manipulated. The facts are all here, exactly as I captured them.

I used a compact Canon G5 five-megapixel compact digital camera to make these photographs. (Nevada Wier also uses the G5, and considers it to be remarkable tool.) Most of these photographs were taken with a Canon .7x wide angle converter placed over my zoom lens, providing me with the equivalent of a 24mm wide angle lens, a focal length that I consider essential for effective travel photography. A few were made with a Canon 1.75x telephoto converter, which is the equivalent of a 245mm telephoto lens. (None of these photographs were made using only the G5's 35mm-140mm zoom lens.)

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