Bryan, I think it would be fun to have a workshop with an “assignment”, contrived as it may be, to focus our work and for our critique session. It could be shoot as if you were doing a Grand Marais visitor bureau handout and you need 10 images. Or big and small—for each vista or landscape, shoot one macro or one abstract that also illustrates that place from your pov. Have us think about the story we want to tell. And maybe do the critique a week after the workshop so we could carefully get through our images and present something cohesive.
I once did a philanthropic workshop in Alaska, where the photographer leaders had partnered with two non-profits that needed images for their website and marketing tools.
They didn’t have a professional photographer in their budget. We met with each non-profit, learned about their mission, generated broad shot ideas and donated our images at the end (chosen by the workshop leaders). The organizations were the Tongans National Forest, which was trying to rebrand itself from the industry of forestry to that of the salmon industry. The second was the Sitka Raptor
Society. It was really fun to explore the area with a focused eye for these organizations and felt
really good to support their mission. Plus we got to see owls up close! That would be cool to do in northern Minnesota.
I’d also be interested in a south shore of Lake Superior workshop. I don’t know that area at all, but I’d guess it has appealing landacape, quite similar to north shore.
I have a very similar workshop in mind for 2025. I'll throw a dart at a map of Minnesota, and then we go there as if we are photojournalists on an assignment to cover the town and any local events that "happen" to be happening for the time that we'll be there. It's end up with a focused visit portfolio that you'd be able to print as a zine if you wanted.
Bryan, I think it would be fun to have a workshop with an “assignment”, contrived as it may be, to focus our work and for our critique session. It could be shoot as if you were doing a Grand Marais visitor bureau handout and you need 10 images. Or big and small—for each vista or landscape, shoot one macro or one abstract that also illustrates that place from your pov. Have us think about the story we want to tell. And maybe do the critique a week after the workshop so we could carefully get through our images and present something cohesive.
I once did a philanthropic workshop in Alaska, where the photographer leaders had partnered with two non-profits that needed images for their website and marketing tools.
They didn’t have a professional photographer in their budget. We met with each non-profit, learned about their mission, generated broad shot ideas and donated our images at the end (chosen by the workshop leaders). The organizations were the Tongans National Forest, which was trying to rebrand itself from the industry of forestry to that of the salmon industry. The second was the Sitka Raptor
Society. It was really fun to explore the area with a focused eye for these organizations and felt
really good to support their mission. Plus we got to see owls up close! That would be cool to do in northern Minnesota.
I’d also be interested in a south shore of Lake Superior workshop. I don’t know that area at all, but I’d guess it has appealing landacape, quite similar to north shore.
Jenny Crouch
I have a very similar workshop in mind for 2025. I'll throw a dart at a map of Minnesota, and then we go there as if we are photojournalists on an assignment to cover the town and any local events that "happen" to be happening for the time that we'll be there. It's end up with a focused visit portfolio that you'd be able to print as a zine if you wanted.