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While the wild, remote or dramatic landscape may challenge and invigorate us, it is the intimate landscapes of home and childhood that most truly shape us. In this workshop, we will take advantage of Kanuga’s location in the Blue Ridge Mountains to photograph a variety of landscapes and to reflect on how this experience can enrich and enlarge our visions of our own intimate landscapes when we return home.
A local photographic field trip each day will form the core of this workshop, framed by discussions and exercises ranging from the traditions of landscape photography to aesthetic and technical considerations that can help each student develop his or her own vision and photographic skills.
We will learn how to expose images correctly and explore how we can use the direction and intensity of light to shape our images. We will practice using different visual cues that lend depth to a landscape photograph, and we will learn to pay better attention to composition and luminosity in color images.
This workshop is a time and place to experiment with ways of seeing that stretch each person’s vision, as well as to practice familiar ways in a new setting. There will be time to look at and talk individually about each participant’s work, as well as a time to see the work of others in the group.
Lydia Goetze’s primary focus is landscape photography and digital fine art prints. She has been photographing the landscape for many years as a mountaineer and sailor in Alaska, New England, Newfoundland and Labrador. A biologist, she brings an understanding of ecology to her nature and landscape work. For 25 years, she taught biology at Phillips Academy, an independent secondary school in Andover, Mass. She currently teaches photographic workshops in various venues. Cited in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2005, Lydia’s work has been published in Appalachia Journal and Yachting Magazine and is in the Addison Gallery of American Art.