If you read Part One of this series of posts about Me Ra Koh‘s Discovery Workshop, then you know that Day One was huge on a personal level. It was rough. It lead me to know more about myself.
Day Two was just as rough and challenging. On this day, we delved into portrait-making with Rick Chapman. He spent some time talking about how he made some of his portraits in various projects, from his portraits of pro athletes to his images of the human form in decayed industrial settings to his personal work of his wife and family. He would ask his subjects to talk about the photo that they had always wanted taken of…
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We found an intimate, little trail that couldn’t be more enchanting. Tall grass. A small bridge over a quiet stream. A forest canopy to provide some shade from the harsh sun.
Big sister Ava loves being a princess. She knew plenty of princess moves, including the very important turning-daddy-into-a-frog move. And how gorgeous is her hair??
Little sister Audrey was such a friendly, happy baby during our session. I don’t believe I’ve ever met a happier baby. I put my hand out to greet her for the first time, and she immediately reached out to pat my hand. Audrey is just beginning to learn to crawl. She was fascinated by all the things on the ground, but she was never too, too busy…
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It has been about 2 weeks since I came back from Me Ra Koh‘s Discovery Workshop. It took me this long to process what I learned there and then some more time to figure out how I was going to write about my experience in a way that would do it justice.
If I could sum up my experience of the workshop in a very succinct way, I would say that I felt uncomfortable and challenged, yet welcomed.
The experience was like getting squeezed and churned through a meat grinder and then spit back out. At the other end of the grinder, I came out resembling myself, but changed. On more than one occasion, I wondered if I and the 21 other women…
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