Are you compelled to create photographs that enchant and delight you? Are you interested in using photography as a way to enhance your experience of seeing? Join internationally-exhibited photographer Valerie Shaff and reawaken your senses and perceptions using mindfulness techniques and exercises, and the photographic lens itself. Together, we find freedom to make photographs with newfound vision, and refine our visual communication. We collect objects from nature and compose shots, learning about lighting. We use our cameras to imaginatively explore all of our sense perceptions, investigating the physical world as though we’ve come to visit it for the first time. We practice meditation and sensory techniques daily to help enhance our creative process and develop a highly personal vision that can grow to be a visual language adept at expression. As we merge with the moment, heighten our experience of seeing, and hone our own creativity, we influence and inform our future photographic endeavors, from the practical to the sublime. Bring a laptop (if you have one) and a digital SLR camera. Valerie Shaff’s photographs have been exhibited internationally and have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Cigar Aficionado, and Martha Stewart Living, among other publications. Renowned for her commissioned dog portraits, she has published four books of her photographs, including If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs. valerieshaff.com |
