Hellooooo......is anybody out there?!

After 20 months, I am feeling settled and ready to resume the photo book club. I have been busy growing a baby who will be turning 1 in October! What a wild and wonderful adventure motherhood is! No one can really prepare you for this journey....I'm learning as I go.  I am blessed to have such great friends and family who have been so so helpful, giving me lots of encouragement and support.

We will resume chapter one beginning in October. You might want review the first 2 posts - that was info about the book and the introduction to chapter one. I'm so looking forward to seeing what we all create and how we each interpret the chapters. I will be posting my vision of how we will work through the book. I figure I will post something from each section of the book and then you all can add your comments with links to your photos from a Flickr account, blog, or some other method. I am going to invite some of my favorite photographers to serve as guests from time to time and who knows, maybe we will be lucky and a Shutter Sister or two would be willing to pop in and say hello! Please let me know if you have any questions. This is my first photo book club so I'm not sure what to expect. Hmmmm....kinda like a first child, I'll learn as I go! I'm hoping to create a "family" of photographers here so we can encourage and support each other on a photographic journey.

Looking forward to getting started....again! :)

Postponed

Just wanted to let you all know that I am having to postpone the book club while I take some time to rearrange some things and get others in order. I'll be back soon - until then....I encourage you to work through the chapters until we can meet up again!

Broaden Your Horizons

As I opened to chapter one and saw Tracey Clark's photo, I immediately thought of a picture in my archives. A photo that I had never edited or posted because it didn't really look interesting to me. As I read through the chapter, a couple of statements moved me. Tracey states, "There is an intangible quality that comes with expansive space and breathing room. A view itself is not emotional on its own - it's our mind's eye that translates a landscape into something that can stir our soul." I began to look at my photo a little differently and think about why I had not deleted it. It was the emotional factor. I took it during a time of great change and uncertainty in my life. I was going off on my own, trying new things, and reconnecting with old friends. Not sure of my place in the world or where my path would lead me.....I  was broadening my horizons.


When you look at pictures in your archives with your heart and not just your eyes are there any that speak to you??

Welcome!!

Welcome to my first photography book club!  


I bought this book not long after it came out and spent several days just looking at the pictures before I started reading it. I have yet to venture out and try the recommended assignments. I was thinking how fun it would be to go through each chapter with a group and came up with the idea to start a photography book club on my blog. So....here we begin!


I am hoping this will be a fun place to gather, get inspired, and share ideas and photos while reviewing each chapter of "Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sister's Guide to Shooting from the Heart."  If you have not had a chance to get the book don't worry, there is still plenty of time. Since the Shutter Sisters have filled each chapter with loads of information and assignments, I am going to spend a month on each chapter! I'll be back tomorrow to start on Chapter One. Hope to see you there!