Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16

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Subject: [Leica] A unique learning experience...
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Tue Dec 16 18:30:45 2008

I see the first one is in March, when is the Kenyan trip planned?

--- michael@hintlian.com wrote:

From: Michael Hintlian <michael@hintlian.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] A unique learning experience...
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:36:34 -0500

Announcing a very special workshop trip designed for participants  
serious about taking their photography to the next level.  In the last  
two years we have traveled with small groups of photographers to  
Guatemala.  There, participants worked on a wide range of photo  
projects for 8-10 days.

Typically photographers spend their days (and sometimes nights)  
shooting their projects, followed by evening critiques and customized,  
individual support and mentoring.  .  The daily shooting/critique  
cycle is a great intensive laboratory to fine tune vision and story  
telling skills over a short period of time.  Photographers have broken  
through visual barriers and cut new turf for their personal vision.

All accommodations and ground arrangements (transfers from the  
airport, hotel, some ground transportation and two dinners) are  
handled, all you need to do is get to Guatemala City with your digital  
camera, a laptop and a toothbrush (an M8 was perfect for me last  
year.)  We opened registration late last week and already have  
photographers signed up, the total number will be limited this year  
and I believe there are many here who would benefit from this trip.   
There are no other workshops even close to what this offers.

To view video of participant experiences, click here  
http://www.visualreportage.blogspot.com/

Who should join us?
If you are passionate about photography & want to learn through  
practice, come.
  If you want to receive daily encouragement and support on how to  
improve your skills, come.
If you have been uncertain about how your photography can improve,  
this is the perfect setting, since everyone is here to learn from each  
other.
If you want to experience what it is like to combine photography with  
making  difference in the world, come.
If you are a professional photographer and feel in a rut, come and  
find your own unique out-of-the-box perspective.  We all have it, we  
just need a little encouragement and guidance to take risks. You  
should come too.
If you want a taste of living like a professional photographer, come.
If you want to expand your idea of the world, come and learn your  
connection to humanity through Guatemala & her people.


Who this workshop is NOT for?
If you feel you know everything there is to know about photography,  
don?t come.
If you are not willing to be out of your comfort zone for 10 days,  
then we suggest you don?t come.
If you are comfortable with the status-quo of your photography, don?t  
come.


Our website describes more:

http://www.visualreportage.com/main.php

Work from a photographer who came with us this year:

http://stephplourdesimard.com/index2.php

Thanks for taking a look.


Michael Hintlian







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