Learning from Others: The Workshop as a Creative Compass
A flâneur's reflections on curiosity, courage, and the craft of learning. How a single three-hour street photography workshop in Vancouver in 2012 quietly redirected an entire creative path — and what the teachers since, from Ian MacDonald to Valérie Jardin, Bruce Gilden to Peter Turnley, have offered about seeing, lineage, and momentum.
Within the Frame #01: Cradle & Trigger
Lessons Within reads a single photograph like a compact poem: each entry pairs a Poetic Description with a Visual and Emotional Analysis, unpacking gesture, composition, light, and allegory to teach the craft of seeing, photographic technique, and critical reading; every post is a close reading that reveals how one frame can contain technique, meaning, and the language of photography.