This week’s Thinking Photography workshop class was about skies, and since I’ve been going through a lot of images recently, I decided to give them a quick review with the workshop session fresh in my mind to delve into the topic a bit further (face it, I don’t mind “studying”). Come join us for an image-rich review of our “skies” lesson.

This should be a short post, as much to fill you in on a few things as anything else. The choice of the photographic image, however, isn’t totally random and has to do a bit with the news. So join us on the site for a mid-week update.

A couple of weeks ago, on one of my writing breaks, I walked up the stairs to check out what Ann was doing. On her monitor was an image she was working on and we started talking about the developing process. From that chance encounter we’ve since periodically talked about developing images so I figured it’s about time to put my (read: our) thoughts down in words and to share them with you.

It took me a while to calm down enough to write this post (something one might question given the title), though I must confess I’m still not quite over it. Let’s just say that, despite all our best efforts - to include moving to Portugal - we still didn’t manage to totally escape what I’ve been calling the Anglo-Saxon disease.

Ann had been looking at (and working on) some old images, so I thought I’d take a mental break from brief writing this week and do the same. I picked a year - 2015 - and picked a dated but unnamed folder that had a bunch of images in it. I decided to dive in and see what was there and then pick a single image to work on. Let’s see what Yosemite NP had to offer me this week.

Sometimes when you’re out and can’t quite find something grand to photograph, you settle on something simple and try to enjoy the craft of photography. On our first trip out to the desert SW, a bit west of Moab in Canyonlands NP, I was faced with just that situation. Looking back at that image recently I realized there was more there than I’d first thought so I decided to develop it with fresh eyes.