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Print of the Month - Campo di Grano in Tuscano
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| | I just got back from my Tuscany Photography Workshop in Italy, so it is fitting that a beautiful Tuscan landscape would be my July Print of the Month. We traveled many dirt backroads to find scenes like this and eating all the dust paid off.
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| | Tuscany workshop filled with beautiful images
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| | The light in Tuscany is famous among photographers and I now know why. I made my first trip there earlier this month while hosting a photography workshop with friend Ron Lake, who has made many trips to the region. We went to some well know locations but we did plenty of exploring the backroads to find unique scenes that made for some great images. The sold-out workshop was a lot of fun. You can see some of my Tuscan images by clicking here.
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| | Thinking back on Guatemala
While I was in Italy, I kept thinking about my March workshop in Guatemala and how fortunate I am to be able to travel to such great locations. I'd like to throw out another huge thanks to friend Edgar Monzon in Guatemala who made all our arrangements and got us in great locations. He claims to be a great dancer but didn't exactly prove it in the middle of a small town with our Canadian workshop participant. I can't hope to meet a kinder person than Edgar. If you missed my gallery of Guatemala photos, click here.
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| | Always something new at art shows
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| The summer art show season is in full swing and I have a show most weekends through October. Setting up and taking down my booth every weekend is hard work but it is exciting to talk with people and get direct feedback on my work. Getting to know other artists on the circuit is fun, I always like making new friends. This weekend I'm on Long Beach Island in NJ, then up to Bennington, VT and then in Woodstock, VT before heading out to Montauk, NY. The complete list is to the right and constantly updated on www.LorenPhotos.com as shows are added. I'm constantly exhibiting new photos, I hope you can stop by and say hello.
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| | Behind the Scenes
At my workshop in Acadia National Park in June, we were on top of the world, or so it seemed. Cadillac Mountain is the highest coastal peak in the Eastern U.S. and many times during the year it is the first place in the U.S. to see the sunrise. It is quite the panoramic view and during a late morning journey to the top the sun was shining through some clouds and making the water shimmer. A small island seemed so isolated in the water and clouds, so I knew I wanted to capture the feeling of it being all alone. As I was taking the picture in color I was thinking what it might look like in black and white, since the strong backlight on the clouds and water weren't going to look good in color. But the black and white version emphasizes what I was feeling. |
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• July 23-24 LBIF Fine Art Festival, Long Beach Island, NJ
• Aug. 5-7 Southern Vermont Art & Craft FestivalBennington, VT
• Aug. 13 Woodstock Street Festival, Woodstock, VT
• Aug. 19-21 Show on the Green, Montauk, NY
• Sept 3-4 Westhampton Festival of the Arts, Westhampton, NY
• Sept. 10-11 Woodstock Art Festival, Woodstock, VT
• Sept 17-19 Anderson Park Arts & Crafts, Upper Montclair, NJ
• Oct. 7-9 Stowe Foliage Arts Festival, Stowe, VT
• Oct. 15-16: Fine Art and Crafts at Brookdale Park Montclair, NJ |
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Think about the essence of the photo
I see lots of photographers get overwhelmed by the scene they are trying to photograph. Many times what we are seeing is so grand and huge that we are unable to capture everything we are seeing no matter how hard we try. I say this a lot: I've never seen a great photo of the Grand Canyon. I've seen lots of goods ones but it is too immense to get a great shot of the whole thing. That is why I try to take time to think about what I am experiencing and then try many different photos to capture the essence of what I am seeing and not try to get everything in the photo. When I went to the Coliseum in Rome a couple weeks ago, I was blown away by what I was seeing. Of course, I've seen many photos of the old structure and I didn't want to come home with the same stuff I could find on Google. We were there late in the day and the light was coming from a great direction and the color was beautiful. I shot my overall shots and then starting thinking about what really attracted me. It was the old stones, the arches and curves and the way it looked against the sky. I pulled out my telephoto and isolated some openings and then was lucky to have a bird fly right where I was pointed. I had my shot.
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