While out shooting during the PODAS workshop the sky turned real dramatic. Photographers love skies like this. We were at an old silver mining town long abandoned and as I looked at this one building the sky just opened up and blessed me with what I call god rays.
I am still in San Miguel, Mexico and we have had a great PODAS workshop. It’s always fun to lead a workshop like this. I make new friends and get to photograph with some really great people. This workshop was different because instead of photographing the big expansive landscapes we were shooting ruins, streets and such. Totally different but with some fantastic results. It’s fun to change the game. This si a shot made at an old silver mine. This was a fantastic place to visit. We had a local on this workshop who knew people who knew other people and we were able to go where many people don’t go. This shot I liked because of the awl, with a giant cactus in from and then how about a tree in the window. I’ll try to post another image later today.
Kind of hard to blog when I am running a PODAS Photography workshop. I am leading a group of Phase One users on a PODAS workshop in San Miguel Mexico. We are having a great time with intensive photography excursions broken up with time for sharing, laughing and enjoying our passion of photography. Visit the PODAS blog to follow everything that we do on this workshop. I’ll do my best to add entries when I can. Todays image is a doorway of a church outside of San Miguel.
One of our instructors on the PODAS workshop spends the winter in Sam Miguel. From the roof top deck of his home is a magnificent view of the city. Here is sunset from San Miguel.
So very now and then I get really deep into the photo apps on the iPhone and iPad, and I see how far I can take an image to be artsy. This is an image I shoot with a Phase One IQ180 in San Miguel, Mexico. I had the image in a gallery on my iPad and I just started using a bunch of apps and came up with this as a final. It’s a tree in a courtyard of a hotel that is half constructed and then abandoned. I will be leading a workshop in San Miguel this March for Phase One camera systems owners. You can find out info about this by CLICKING HERE.
I have been looking at this image for a long time and it just keeps hitting me as a strong shot. Taken in San Miguel, Mexico while strolling the streets doing some street photography. The expression, clothing, color and light works well.
Today’s image is from the same place in San Miguel, Mexico where I did the shot from a week ago. This time I composed the picture so I was looking dead on into the stairs. I like the brick, concrete and stone. I loaded the image onto my iPad which is now one of my favorite have with you anytime editing platforms and worked the image a bit a few programs. This is the result. Hope you like it.
While visiting San Miguel, Mexico I had the opportunity to visit a giant hotel that was under construction. Then one day they realized they were building this hotel right below a dam and if the dam broke the hotel would be wiped out. So, they stopped building the hotel. Thus her is this abandoned hotel just sitting there. My friend Michael and I explored this hotel and i found a number of cool shots. This one is clued stairs. I love the angles of the stairs and how the angles of steel (red) make the image.
So, the last few days I have been publishing people shots. I love walking the streets of new cities and catching the flavor both in the graphics and scenes of the city but also the people. This shot was made in San Manguiel Mexico during a wonderful two hour walk. I love this place so much that I will host a workshop through PODAS there in January. The lighting filtering through the trees just made this work not to mention the expression and face. I leave for a multi city CHina tour on Tuesday. while I have lots of Phase One business to do there, I am hoping for some street shooting as well as seeing some of Chinas magnificent sights. I’ll publish when I can.
Continuing with Mexico shots I present another image from the abandoned hotel. This is a set of stairs basically going no where. It was made with 5 exposures and brought together in Photomatix and then post processed on the iPad. Amazing what you can do with your photographs these days. I really liked the feel and the way this flows. Let me know what you think.