Pt. Lobos. 2011. Email to order a print. Next Workshop Pt. Lobos and Carmel Dec. 1-3, 2012.
Welcome to the November 2012 Edition of the Stephen Johnson Photography Newsletter. Just returned from a trip to New York City and Washington DC. The trip to DC had some interesting underpinnings, being on the edge of Hurricane Sandy (and basically untouched except for a cancelled lecture) and being fully aware of the impending presidential election. This was made even more poignant by a visit to the West Wing of the White House. It stirs all sorts of emotion and hopes... This month's View From Here column explores aerial photography and a recent trip to Washington. We hope you enjoy reading it and perhaps will send us some comments. Our Tutorial this month discusses photographing from a commercial jet. LATEST NEWS:
The next section of our popular printing workshop Fine Art Digital Printing Hands-on runs this Saturday from November 10-13, 2012. A special Print Day with Steve is available for printing workshop alumni on We're going back to one of our favorite places in December, Pt. Lobos and Carmel December 1-3, 2012. Whether on this workshop or at another time, you must visit Pt. Lobos, so why not join us for a group photo journey? The one-day seminar Photographic Projects will be offered January 12, 2013. Keeping in mind people's limited budgets and recurring requests, these one-day classes are an effort to keep photo education affordable. We return to Death Valley for our Death Valley in Winter workshop January 24-27, 2013. This full moon and winter light on the goegraphically rich and multi-hued valley make for an amazing photographic trip. Add the Sand Dunes at dawn and you have quite a set of photographic opportunities. One of the true wonders of the world has been added to our winter workshop schedule with our Yosemite in Winter workshop Feb. 16-18, 2013. Don't miss a chance to join us on our Ireland Workshop this Summer! We are excited to announce our Summer 2013 Photography Workshop to Ireland's Spectacular West Coast July 14-25, 2013. My good friend Anthony Hobbs of the Dublin's National College of Art will be co-leading this ten-day immersion into the Irish landscape and culture. As part of our ongoing commitment to photographic education, there is one student scholarship spot in many of our classes. Please pass the word along. For discounted time studying with Steve, keep in mind our Mentoring Program announced last fall. Our busy schedules and limited budgets often keep us from destination workshops or classes, but many of you still have questions you need answered, or feedback on some new work. We want to remind you of our Virtual Online Consulting Program. This service allows all of you out there around the globe to consult online live with Steve on technical, aesthetic and workflow issues using Skype and your webcam. Our Essays and Tutorials from the past couple of years can now be found on Google Blogger. We hope you can come by the gallery and see the Exquisite Earth exhibition, its accompanying very special Exquisite Earth Portfolio 1. We invite you to join us on a workshop, rent lab space, or just say hello and let us know what you are up to photographically and what you might like to see us offer. We value your input. |
FEATURED PRINT November 2012
9x14 Pigment Inkjet Print on Cotton paper $195 each. Purchase this print. The Capitol Crypt was originally supposed to be the final resting place of George Washington but the family had other ideas, like Mt. Vernon. Directly under the Capitol's Rotunda, where so many have been honored after their loss, it held my heart for awhile, as it held so much history just above. Still a wild and beautiful set of lines and arches...
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Clouds Over Great Highway
...clouds reaching to sky on the Great Highway in San Francisco...
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THE VIEW FROM HERE On Aerial Photography: Commercial Flights I am a deep fan of aerial photography. I am always seeking a window seat and carrying my camera, as I have been for over 30 years. Flying back from my recent east coast lecture tour, I looked into using an App from my iPad/iPhone called Fight Aware to track the route we flew. As I was exploring it, I noticed I could save the route as a Google Earth compatible .gmx file and save the times and location of the entire route,
San Francisco at Dawn. 2012. This led me down a path of tracing back some photographs I made along the way of curious sites and some nice compositions. I now have the ability to determine locations, place names and some investigative opportunities to find out what on earth some of these markings on our earth actually were.
Baker Lake, Arkansas. 2012.
Razor Bluff, Colorado. 2012.
At The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City A must see if you are in New York City, Faking it: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop is a wonderful exhibition at the Met in NYC thruogh January 27, 2013.
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A West Wing White House Tour While in Washington DC last week, I was fortunate to be able to tour the West Wing of the White House. It was amazing to look into the Oval Office and take in all that has happened there. The fate of our nation rests with decisions made in that room. The Presidential election this year probably heightened that since of history. But I do find my mind keeps coming back to staring into that room, the Oval Office. The fact that it is smaller than all of the wide-angle photographs have suggested, the concrete non-emperor quality of ordinary old paint on old wood, the simple reality of the real space. We were not allowed to photograph on the tour, but the scene made a deep impression on me. Just moving around the White House, going in and leaving the tour, brought a core reality to the place that took myth and made the place real. Even the interrelationships of the rooms and space was surprising. It was hard not to photograph, as so much of what I saw contextualized spaces I had never before put together quite right. I was happy to make a few images outside and in the Press Room. Like most any visitor to Washington DC, I am always taken by my first sighting of the Washington Monument. It seems from almost any view, I keep making photographs of the spire. To say that it's iconic is a bit obvious, but there is something singularly remarkable about it as a form and symbol. I get emotional at the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, and particularly at the Vietnam Veterans Wall. But there is something about this towering spire... The Washington Monument from the Old Post Office. 2012. Tidbits A few things I would like you to keep in mind...
Our One on One Program links you up with Steve at his bay area studio, or when he is on the road near you. Keep an eye on when Steve will be near your town. Catch Steve Live: Steve will be speaking here and there around the country over the next few months, such as San Francisco in December.
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TUTORIAL Aerial Photography From a Commercial Plane (excerpt from the book Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography unreleased revised electronic version)
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Beautiful posters from Steve's National Parks work. 30x24 inches
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National Park Color Notecard Set From "With a New Eye" Beautiful 300 line screen offset reproductions with envelopes in clear box. A great gift. |
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