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Checkerboard Mesa. Zion National Park. Utah. 2006.
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WELCOME! I'm sitting in Keflavick on the last day of my July trip to Iceland, again putting the newsletter together for you all from out on the road. It has been a fascinating trip, with rich visual and cultural experiences. I look forward to doing a workshop here next year. Our Zion National Park workshop is coming up at the end of the month and is currently low on enrollment. If you ever wanted to see this park this may be a great opportunity with a small workshop along with an intense lover of the southwest. Our upcoming Summer and Fall workshops include Yosemite in the Fall, studio workshops include the Professional Image Editing class in September and the Fine Art Digital Printing Hands on class in early October. The first 2009 workshop is up, Death Valley in Winter. I've been doing field workshops since 1978, they are good fun and I strive to make them substantial learning experiences. I believe our upcoming schedule of workshops can be of great benefit to many of you out there and hope you will consider joining us on one. Our workshops are designed to enhance your photographic talents and skills. Tell us about your needs, talk to us about photographic destinations. This is continuing new program of letting people request the workshops they want. Email the Workshops Currently Building List so we can build a list of people and determine dates. Great teaching, great facility. |
Steve at Geothermal Vents. Iceland 2008. Ragnar Sigurdsson |
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The Bookstore  Ted Orland's New Photographic Truths Poster. 24x36 inches. $20. An underground classic, gracing the walls of university darkrooms and professional studios alike. But now (finally!) it’s available again in a new edition — still illustrated with the same friendly picture of Ansel Adams, but with a text that now includes many newly-discovered digital truths. Advice for Photographers: The Next Step Based on decades of teaching, Weber has collected and organized ideas and suggestions to aid those who would be photographers. A 72-page field manual. Art and Fear A terrific book. A must read for every artist who has struggled with working, creating, reaching out and hanging in there.   |
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Geothermal Travertine. 2008 11x14 Pigment Print on Rag paper $195 each The geothermal vents in Iceland can produce run-off areas of amazing complexity and color. This one ran down a hillside into a turquoise lake, producing classic travertine pools on its way. We're offering an 11x14 inch print, matted to 16x20 and ready to frame for $195, framed for an additional $75. This print at this price is offered through August 31. We'll be taking orders until then, and shipping them out by September 15th.
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Saljalalandfoss Falls and Rainbow. Iceland. 2008. Iceland Reflections My long anticipated first trip to Iceland became a reality in July. Since an early National Geographic article on an emerging volcanic island off the south Iceland coast, I have wanted to see this land. My many trips to Ireland left me thinking that this year I would go on the way home form my Irish workshop. As it happened, an email arrived from my friend JP Caponigro suggesting there might be a teaching opportunity in Iceland this summer. And so there was with a new program birthing in Iceland, Focus on Nature championed by Einar Erlendsson. Although word got out late and none of the workshops filled, John Paul's got a few and is running. I ended up being invited for a get familiar trip and so my first visit. Einar was my host and tour guide for this great trip. As almost always happens, the place is bigger and more complex than I imagined. Way bigger. We drove all day and were less than a quarter of the way around this island nation. When you don't know much about a place, it is somehow always a surprise to find it highly developed, modern and rich in culture and land. There were even a number of vegetarian eating places for me. The language and names were hard. Basically, they speak Viking here, and it is a very different sound which leaves this poor west coast American boy with no ability to pronounce anything. I did try and butchered their words. Fortunately, almost everyone spoke English. The country was a mix of green lush hills, expansive almost impenetrable volcanic plains, geothermal vents with their minerals, sulfurous odor and telltale yellow surrounds, and rough mountains with glaciers pouring down the slopes almost into the sea. As elsewhere, the glaciers are receding. The volcanism seems hard-edged and fresh, even flows a thousand years old. Some features are indeed merely yesterday with a vast plain being hugely expanded and recreated just within the last hundred years. Some of the photographers I met talked about the lava flows they've seen. Everyone seemed anxious to explain their land, mixing a national pride with an intrinsic awe at the power of the earth. Some of the roads we traveled were freeways, some familiar two-lane highways, but the best were barely there, carved from glacial tailings or right through streams and lava flows where there was always a question as to whether the vehicle could make it through. At times it almost seemed like the classical road to nowhere, with no discernable destination, or in one case no setting at all as we were engulfed in a volcanic ash dust storm. Reykjavik, or smoky bay, is a modern city of 200,000, holding most of the country's 300,000 citizens. Although most everything must be imported, you would not guess that by the variety of goods and foods available. You could be walking the streets of most any other European city by most visual clues.
Dusk, Broken Land. Landbrotsholar, Iceland. 2008. One area I found particularly intriguing and unique was a near sea plain of volcanic domes that seemed more humps on the land than imaginable as the huge plain of small domes they actually must be. It was called the "broken land" and is a place I must return. |
Glacier. Iceland. 2008.
Bridge to Nowhere. Myrdalssandur, Iceland. 2008. After a few days of travel with Einar, we did need to start back toward Reykjavik from the south. Einar had quite a beautiful ride planned as we went up and over a range of mountains and behind the Myrdalsjoekull glacier field we passed earlier in the week. The reward was a large inland range of verdant expanses, waterfalls, alpine streams and volcanic upheavals. It was truly an area of unique beauty and wonder. I owe a great thanks to Einar Erlendsson for organizing my trip and his dedication to photography. His generous friends, well-know Icelandic photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson and Ellert Grétarsson each spent a day taking me to some of their favorite places and are due many thanks.
Steve with Beach Pooch. Reynisfjara, Iceland. Einar Erlendsson. 2008. |
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Zion National Park August 30-September 1, 2008 Join us on a three-day adventure through the visual wonderlands of southern Utah's Zion National Park. The trip is designed to be a complete immersion into landscape photography and its digital evolution with the pioneer in digital landscape photography. Extremes of brightness and shadow, distance, haze, perspective and form can make Zion a real challenge to photograph, but are at the heart of its beauty as well. Thoughtful seeing and good use of digital tools assist greatly in this process, and the workshop will emphasize those aspects of digital imaging and processing for which this location creates such a unique need. We'll work on creating photographs which succeed in carrying some feel of what is special about this place with a visual integrity that speaks to you. The place was named "Zion" as a sanctuary by the early settlers, and was a holy place to the Native Americans before that. Zion is more than just a scenic national park; it is at once wild and unknown to most visitors, while at the same time managing to be comforting and intimate, becoming nature at its most intriguing. If you haven't been to Zion, imagine huge rocky outcrops, similar to Yosemite, but much closer together. There are towering red sandstone cliffs accented by pines and chartreuse cottonwood foliage; mossy seeps and creeks; sandstone in every color from mustard to raspberry, eroded into sensuous forms; petrified dunes with their layers, angles and striations; aspens, slot canyons, slickrock, sage; wide views and precious details. Infusing your reactions to all this into your photographs will be the second focus of the workshop. |
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September 18-21, 2008 Stephen Johnson Studios & Gallery Pacifica, California. This is a great chance to explore digital photographic editing with Steve. Hands-on help and demonstrations of his use of editing tools with restraint and finesse will benefit all of your digital photography work. This class is designed with the time to really understand the processes, and to work through difficult images.
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Fine-Art Digital Printing Hands-On October 2-5, 2008 Stephen Johnson Studios & Gallery Pacifica, California. This workshop focuses exclusively on improving your fine-art digital printing in our new Digital Lab, primarily using Epson inkjet printers. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and rag papers. Learn from the digital pioneer how he obtains his impressive results during four days of lectures, printing, and feedback in the studio. We will cover workflow issues, color management, correcting color casts, adjustment layers, custom profile generation, editing and inspection. There being no magic bullet to making good prints, the workshop will also explore old fashioned testing, careful color judgments and interactive honing in on the best print possible. 
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Personal Workshops and Art Consulting Arrangements can be made to work with Steve individually at his studio or at custom locations. Call for a discussion of the possibilities. 650 355-7507 Steve and Tom |
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