"Composition Intensive" Workshop at Peters Valley July 26-30

[Bruce Barlow]

There are still openings in my "Composition Intensive" workshop at Peters Valley Craft Center in Layton, NJ. July 26-30.

Five days of minimal lectures and maximum exercises on components of composition. Leave the big LF stuff at home and bring a point-and-shoot. It's not about the camera. There will be no technical stuff to clutter our minds.

Last year, a student said that of the 25 workshops she had taken at Peters Valley, this was the most educational.

And this year I think I know what I'm doing...

Peters Valley is a cool place. Andy Schmitt, who runs the photography program, is a gem of a human being. The food is good and plentiful, and the coffee fantastic. Newark Airport is reasonably close by, and the location in the Delaware Water Gap is visually rich.

We'll sweat, becuz it's NJ in July, but I'm willing to bet you'll find it worthwhile, and transferable to your LF endeavors.

I hope to see you.

[Kirk Gittings]

Good for you. Looks worthwhile. How is the footloose adventure going?

[Bruce Barlow]

16,000 miles, and I'm only at Chicago. All over the east, the Low Country of South Carolina was wonderful. Gators in the Everglades were a dream come true. But meeting Jimmy Carter in Plains is the highlight.

Three months so far, who knows how many more to go. Thanks for asking!

[Michael Clark]

Mr Barlow, are planing on making the journey out to Southern California anytime Like to attend your Composition Workshop.

Mike

[Bruce Barlow]

Mr. Clark - I seem to be collecting a group of folks interested in some kind of a workshop in Southern California. Sounds interesting to me! I'll collect you all and we can start too chat about what that workshop would look like. Cool! Would love to meet all of you in person.

And PLEASE! I'm Bruce...

[rdenney]

http://www.petersvalley.org/store/html/product.cfm?id=281

Rick "providing a link" Denney

[bob carnie]

Bruce , not sure if we ever crossed paths, but if you are ever thinking of Canada visit we would set up something here in Toronto.
How long are you on the road and how are you traveling(sleeping, eating) ?
I have longed to buy a small self contained bus and drag behind it a darkroom like Bill Schwab's. My wife and I plan to make this a reality , our favourite thing is to travel on the roads of North America.



16,000 miles, and I'm only at Chicago. All over the east, the Low Country of South Carolina was wonderful. Gators in the Everglades were a dream come true. But meeting Jimmy Carter in Plains is the highlight.

Three months so far, who knows how many more to go. Thanks for asking!

[Bruce Barlow]

Bob - no plans for Canada at the moment, but there are few plans, if any, at all.

I think we met at at least one View Camera conference - I helped Steve put together Springfield, MA, and ran the Welcome table with the cute redhead that everyone hit on. I also did the Paper/Developer comparison, and had time on the agenda for folks to do that exercise. I think you did it, no?

I'm 6'6", and hard to forget. Grayer than I was then.

If I think I'll be getting up your way, I'll certainly be in touch, if for nothing other than to get together.

Cheers!

[rdenney]

This workshop tempted me strongly, but I'm already booked for work travel for half of the time. But if your itinerant movements take your through northern Virginia or Maryland or nearby, let us know. I'd love to attend your composition workshop, but planning seems to be really hard for me to do in my current situation.

Rick "also itinerant much of the time" Denney

[bob carnie]

No I did not attend that conference, I did meet a good friend of Ted's at his funeral, but not sure that you are the same person he was pretty tall. I am 5.6 and shrinking so anyone is tall to me.

As I said my wife and I plan to do a lot of road traveling , I hope we can meet up some day.

Bob

Bob - no plans for Canada at the moment, but there are few plans, if any, at all.

I think we met at at least one View Camera conference - I helped Steve put together Springfield, MA, and ran the Welcome table with the cute redhead that everyone hit on. I also did the Paper/Developer comparison, and had time on the agenda for folks to do that exercise. I think you did it, no?

I'm 6'6", and hard to forget. Grayer than I was then.

If I think I'll be getting up your way, I'll certainly be in touch, if for nothing other than to get together.

Cheers!

[Bruce Barlow]

Bob, that was me. I knew we'd crossed paths. Just sorry that it was at a sad event.

I can certainly figger out a way to get to Toronto. I used to spend a lot of time there. Always loved Three Small Rooms restaurant, and there was a coffee shop, name unremembered, where the coffee was phenomenal. Oh, yeah, The Coffee Mill. But that was mid-1980s.

I'll be in touch, but we'll do this at some point. Just no predicting when, for right now.

Cheers!

[bob carnie]

Good luck on your adventures, you really should consider a blog as you move about the country , I envy the time on the road.
We are always open to meet fellow photo crazy's up here in Toronto.

[Bruce Barlow]

Bloggish entries show up at www.quantumburp.wordpress.org. That's the site for my church. I made myself a minister online, and needed something more absurd than me just being a minister. The Church of the Quantum Burp.

[Bruce Barlow]

Places still open in Peters Valley! Good food, great coffee. Some really nice places to photograph in the area.

And not a bad workshop July 26-30. Sharpen your compositional chops.

[Winger]

Bruce, I really wish I could take the workshop at Peters Valley. It's exactly what I'd like to work on. Unfortunately, I'll be either en route to Iowa or already out there by then and I'm sure I won't be able to break free and make my husband take care of all of it plus the 3 dogs and 1 three-year-old child.
Is it possible or likely that you'll do the workshop next year as well? Maybe I'd be able to take a vacation by myself by then.

[Brian Ellis]

My standard advice to anyone attending a Peters Valley workshop in the summer - if you stay in one of the houses/dorms on site be sure to specify a first floor room. The rooms have no AC and I thought I'd fry to death in a second floor room when I attended a Tillman Crane workshop there. Otherwise a very nice place, good food, nice staff, pretty area, excellent faculty. I'd happily attend again even if I couldn't get a first floor room, it's just more comfortable if you can.