Stay at Home Photography Projects: A unique workshop series for the times

A three-part series – sign up for one, two, or all three.Each of the three modules consists of 4 class sessions and builds on the last. Classes meet
for two hours twice a week over two weeks. Included with each module is a weekly one-on-one
with Laurie for 20 minutes. These one-on-ones are scheduled on a designated “office
hours” day outside of class time. Maximum of 10 students per class. We will be seeing and
feeling in your everyday environment. Laurie will photograph along with you and share
what she photographs, too.

First Series: Spring Cleaning: April 21, 23, 28 & 30
As photographers, we have the opportunity to tell new stories by looking at objects, people,
spaces, light, etc., in our immediate surroundings. They are familiar, and now we have the
opportunity to see them in a new way. Seeing them from where you are now vs. where you
were when they first entered your life. Laurie will lead you on exercises to help you see
things you have lived with or walked by daily in a whole new light.
Any chance you found 2 china dolls stuck inside your closet, begging to come out? That
happened to Laurie this week, and they may be her stay at home project while we are
together during this series. These dolls have been in her family for 4 generations. Or maybe
there is a plant in your home that is blooming that makes you feel wonderful. Choose
wisely, it might just change your life…….

Second Series: A Pathway Project: May 5, 7, 12 & 14
In this series, the focus is seeing isolation as a pathway to pre-visualizing your surroundings
and ultimately yourself. You will take at least two photos every time you photograph an
object/subject or selfie….. one that is the way you have always photographed your
subjects/subject matter in the past, then one that is way out of your comfort zone. It could
be tapping into your feelings about what is happening in the world at this precise moment,
putting your camera’s shutter speed low to capture a blurred moment, or photographing
from the hip. The point is to push the envelope, and let your feelings about isolation,
confinement, or the unknown drive your image capture.

Third Series: Full Bloom, just like June. May 26, 28 and June 2 & 4
This program begins with Spring Cleaning from the inside then ventures into our familiar
surroundings with The Pathway Project. The third series, Full Bloom, takes you into the
unfamiliar. Unfamiliar doesn’t mean physically going to places you haven’t been before. It
could be self-portraits, panning, metaphors, etc. You will have gone through an inner
transformation in the first two modules, so now you will see your familiar, immediate
outside world from a completely different vantage point. A lot has happened in our lives in
a short period of time, this is your chance to use those feelings wisely. Be passionate.
Become childlike seeing a tree or a cloud as if it was for the first time. Come to your image-making
from a child-like state, become fully bloomed.

This series of workshops is for iPhone, infrared, color, and B&W photographers, meaning
anyone…..