Registration is now open for the 2011 NMC Photo Safari at Jackson Hole May 11-13. This unique workshop allows you to walk in the footsteps of Ansel Adams and Tom Mangelsen, while Bill Frakes and Don Henderson make fresh tracks along side you. Visit the NMC site for more information.
Laura and I are in Austin, Texas, this week presenting and shooting at South by Southwest. Austin is always a high energy city, but with the influx of creativity from this conference the city is booming. There is inspiration everywhere you look.
The beginning of this year has kept me and the rest of the Straw Hat Visuals team busy. We’ve shot four music videos, one documentary pieces, taught four workshops, and we’ve flown thousands of miles from Georgia to Sweden to Canada and now Texas.
Among the videos we've shown here is Austin on the Nikon panel, one of our fan favorites is our Backyard Babies music video.
Watching this video makes me even more excited about the videos we will be launching in the next few weeks.
At South by Southwest, Bill will be speaking on the impact of DSLR Video and using it in filmmaking as part of the Nikon panel.
View a complete schedule of events here.
I try to make it out to Nebraska every chance I get. My favorite opportunities revolve around spending time with the photo students in Lincoln, teaching them and learning from their perspectives.
Multimedia can bring you multiple opportunities. Bill will be presenting with Nikon and friends from Apple, Manfrotto, Chimera, and Cinevate on January 31 in Stockholm. Learn how to better push you creative boundaries and expand your business opportunities. Register for your free ticket here.
Back in Sweden, location scouting today for a music video project we are shooting next week.
Laura and Sara chose to stay in sunny Florida this week, letting me plow through the snow near the arctic circle solo.
This is going to be very interesting. Keeping the cameras warm enough for the batteries to function properly will be a major challenge. Keeping me warm enough to function the cameras even more so.
Life Under a Big Red Sky* is great. I am talking about being there but the book of the same name is terrific. I couldn’t possibly be more proud of my Nebraska heritage, and so when the good folks at Photograph Nebraska invited me to join them for a weekend of photography and storytelling I jumped at the chance.
Never mind that it is my little sister’s birthday--and hey, maybe she’ll come see the talk. Plus my Aunt Edith lives pretty close and with luck maybe she will stop in with cookies. And I have a lot friends strung along I-80--or thereabouts-- that I am hoping will come to visit in Hastings for what will be a terrific weekend.
Buy my old friend Joel Sartore’s wonderful book about Nebraskaness, and I will get him to sign it for you. It’s an amazing piece of work. I’ll split the postage with you, Joel’s too cheap to spring for it..........
Filmmaker Bud Greenspan passed today. We’ve lost a giant. His was a singular, unique, powerful vision that brought so many so much joy.
Strolling slowly along the Seine today with my daughter Havana on a blustery, grey afternoon headed to a great little photo bookstore --La Chamber Claire, I chanced to see a postcard rack and in the center of it was the famous image of Che--by the great Cuban photographer Alberto Korda and right next to it an image by my favorite photographer Raul Corrales called La Sueno, which transported me to a very warm afternoon in Habana many years ago talking with the two of them. Wonderful friends, colleagues and fierce competitors. The tension created by the passion they had for life and photography--and frankly for women was palpable.
It was a very different time and place. They are gone now, but their images, their vision, will endure and not just inform, but educate.
This short journey today, led me to consider the longer path I've taken with the things I've gained from the work of other artists. As in all things for me the message-- the image, and the story were tantamount.
Such a great life, so many things I need to see.
The road beckons.
