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Registration is open for Fall Workshops!

I know it’s the heat of summer, but fall will be here before you know it. (Don’t tell my son, he’s getting too much pleasure from sleeping in.) My fall mobile photography workshops will fill up before you know it, too! Registration is now open for my workshops from September to November. A workshop is the perfect thing to do while you wait for my book to arrive!

Mobile Photography 1: Introduction
Corvallis, Oregon
September 12, 2015 or October 10, 2015
1pm to 4pm

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Learn to capture great photographs with your smartphone or tablet. You always have your mobile device with you, right? Why not make it your primary camera! In this half-day course, you’ll learn how to get the most out of your device’s camera along with the basics of creative photo editing. Whether you want to take nice photographs of your family and friends to share online or begin to create photographic art, you’ll be making photographs you are proud to share in no time! The class will be taught for both iOS and Android devices, and no prior photography experience is necessary.

Cost is $40+apps. Register here.

Mobile Photography 2: Artistic Alterations
Corvallis, Oregon
November 14, 2015
1pm to 4pm

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Take your photographs into a whole new realm! Explore the possibilities of creating interesting and unique art by altering photographs on your iPhone or iPad. In this half-day workshop you will learn the secrets of sequencing and blending apps to create art with depth and interest from your photographs. By the end, you will be creating images as unique as you are! The class will be taught for iOS devices running the latest version of iOS.

Prerequisite: Mobile Photography 1, Intro to Mobile Photography or Intro to iPhoneography

Cost is $40+apps. Register here.

Will you be joining me this fall? I’d love to see you in class!

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Registration is Open!

Registration is now open for a new mobile photography workshop series I’m doing in the spring. Take a look and register soon, because there are already people signing up and last fall these classes filled up to capacity.

I’ve been loving the half day workshops, where you get enough information to go off and play but not enough to be overwhelmed. This series builds from basic photography to artistic edits to advanced techniques, giving you a few weeks in between workshops to practice with the material so you can absorb it better. There is something new for everyone in this series, even if you’ve taken one of my Intro or Smartphone Art workshops before.

If you don’t live close enough to take advantage of the series, never fear! All of this content will be in my book (coming out next year!) and I’d love to teach the 1 or 2-day versions of the series, known as Smartphone Art, in a town near you. Drop me a note!

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Mobile Photography 1: Introduction
Corvallis, Oregon
March 7, 2015
1pm to 4pm

Learn to capture great photographs with your smartphone or tablet. You always have your mobile device with you, right? Why not make it your primary camera! In this half-day course, you’ll learn how to get the most out of your device’s camera along with the basics of creative photo editing. The class will be taught for both iOS and Android devices, and no prior photography experience is necessary. (Note: This is the same class as Intro to Mobile Photography, offered last fall at The Arts Center, and Intro to iPhoneography, offered through Corvallis Parks and Rec.)

Cost is $40+apps. Register through The Arts Center.

Mobile Photography 2: Artistic Alterations
Corvallis, Oregon
April 11, 2015
1pm to 4pm

Explore the possibilities of creating interesting and unique art by altering photographs on your iPhone or iPad. In this half-day workshop you will learn the secrets of sequencing and blending apps to create art with depth and interest from your photographs. The class will be taught for iOS devices running the latest version of iOS.

Prerequisite: Mobile Photography 1, Intro to Mobile Photography or Intro to iPhoneography

Cost is $40+apps. Register through The Arts Center.

Mobile Photography 3: Advanced Blending
Corvallis, Oregon
May 9, 2015
1pm to 4pm

Blending is where the magic happens! This half-day workshop will dive deep into the methods and sequences to create incredibly interesting effects through blending multiple photographs, backgrounds and textures. The class will be taught for iOS devices running the latest version of iOS.

Prerequisite: Mobile Photography 1 & 2 or Smartphone Art

Cost is $40+apps. Register through The Arts Center.

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It’s time for a Journey of Fascination

The course was inspirational and confidence building. It seems each of us have what is needed to be whatever our heart desires, we just needed a facilitator to draw it out.
— Find Your Eye Participant in 2012

It’s time for a new journey. A Journey of Fascination. I am adding a new course to the Find Your Eye series in early 2013, and you are invited to join the journey. The series begins with Starting the Journey from January 20-31, 2013, and then continues with the all-new Journey of Fascination from February 10 – March 9, 2013. Registration is open now.

The participant quote I’ve shared above really expresses what the Find Your Eye series is all about. It’s about building your confidence. It’s about inspiring you to be who you are in your photography. Finding your eye is no more complicated than that. Yet it’s still not easy, either. That’s why I’ve created these courses: to help you make the journey. The journey is your own, I just shine a light on the path in front of you, to help you move forward. And even if you are already moving along nicely, the courses accelerate your momentum.

My own journey has been an interesting one, filled with ups and downs, fears and joy, as those of you who regularly read my blog know. These courses come out of my own experiences. I find it interesting that I’ve added one per year… Journey of Recognition came out of 2010, Journey of Inspiration came out of 2011, and now Journey of Fascination has been born out of experiences in 2012. Each course is a different journey, taking you in a slightly different direction. I love how it doesn’t matter the order you take the courses, or if you are near the beginning of your own journey with photography or well under way, they always fit where you are.

I hope you will join me in January and February on this new journey. It’s exciting to be at the cusp of sharing something new. I’ve always thought there were more Find Your Eye courses to come and now is the right time for the next one.

I love this journey I am on. I love what I get to do in these courses, as a guide and a witness. I especially love that it makes a difference in the art and the lives of the people who join me. I’m excited to share a few other comments from participants in Find Your Eye courses this year, about their experience.

I love the interaction among the participants as well as from you, Kat. The assignments were challenging and pushed us to explore new purposes for taking photographs, but to also find meaning in them. [T]he level of interaction in this course is so much deeper and open than any other online courses I’ve completed.

I loved learning in a group, knowing there were others on the journey too and we could explore this passion for photography together. And my other favourite thing was having assignments which gave us plenty of direction but also opened up all kinds of creative possibilities.

I’ve done many classes and this one was the best, because it was a small group and because you, Kat, always give feedback and follow the group. It’s also unique, because it pushes you forward as a photographer.

[This course is unique because of] the great interaction around photo images. We all had a chance to learn from others because we paid attention to what everyone was doing not just on our individual work. It wasn’t only about feedback from you, Kat (which was very appreciated), but we seemed to get a lot out of feedback from everyone and you had an opportunity to react to some of the feedback, too. It was a group experience.

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A Sense of Place Registration is Open!

It’s time! Registration is open for my newest class offering, A Sense of Place.

This brand new, eight-week course will help you discover your own Sense of Place – a grounding in the way you explore and encounter the world around you with your camera.

Like all of my courses, it encompasses both the photography aspect which has you looking out at the world in new ways, as well as looking inside yourself to define the aesthetic you want to capture as you explore places.

You can find more details on the new course, including a week-by-week outline and course logistics information, on the course description page here.

Photography of places is one of my favorite things. I’m very excited for this new course, and I can’t wait to share it with you! I hope you’ll join me and discover A Sense of Place.

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