A Year of Emily

December 23, 2015 • Leave a Comment

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NOTE: This is a blog post originally published on December 23, 2015. I am porting some of the posts from my old blog over to this new one. Please see this post for the full story.

As the year comes to a close, I realize that one of my big 2015 photo "projects" had a profoundly awesome, albeit unintended, result. I call it a project only in the sense that it required a significant investment of my own time, but really it was a year-long photography workshop. Well, 3 workshops really. World-renowned photography instructor Don Giannatti put together these portrait classes intended to make you look at the work of masters in the field and draw inspiration from their work. It's a truly enlightening exercise that I highly recommend to anyone who photographs people.

One thing you absolutely need in a portrait class is a person to photograph. The workshops were pretty fast-paced with one assignment per week being the norm so it was convenient to use a family member as the subject. Hence my awesome unintended consequence. I now have a year's worth of portraits of my stepdaughter Emily! It's been a great year and great fun looking back at these pictures.

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It's been a great year, I'm looking forward to even more great stuff in 2016. Thanks for all the help Emily, and I wish everyone a very happy and prosperous new year!

Keywords: black and white, color, creative, education, family, inspiration, learn, lighting, master, photography, portrait, studio, technique, workshop

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