Monthly Archives: October 2009

Photographing Children: The Location Portrait

In my Photography of Children workshops and in private tutoring sessions the question of how to improve location portraits is a regular topic. Comments like ‘ My portraits are OK, but in the end all the images just look like good snapshots’ are common. The difference between a good snapshot and a well crafted portrait...

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Photographing Children: A Walk In The Park

In my Childrens’ Photography Workshops one question I am asked often goes something like this: ” On family outings, I take a lot of pictures of the children and they seem good at the time. When I look at them later though,  there are some good single pictures, but there isn’t a cohesive theme to...

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A New York Minute +

On Sunday morning, October 25th , the DC Street Photography Workshop will ‘launch’ in Georgetown following a shot of caffeine at Dean & De Luca on M Street. ‘Launch’…appropriate term, considering some of the images here, from the South Street Seaport in New York City. I could have added more, but they seemed off topic...

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Jason, Suzanne and Aiden: Portraits

Family sessions  with infant children are always unpredictable, which makes them challenging,  fun and never alike. Aiden, at 1,  is a natural and he was ready for this. We shot at a park outside DC on day when the weather was as unpredictable as Aiden can be. We started with family ‘portraits’, moved to images...

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