Please enjoy Jim Cornfield’s recent feature article for Rangefinder Magazine about his time at the 2009 Photography at the Summit. It’s a great synopsis of what to expect from the week and commentary on his experience as a student last fall. It includes an extensive spread of pictures from the workshop as well as a…
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Sports Illustrated strobed its first NCAA Final Four in 1964 in Kansas City ‘s Municipal Auditorium and five years later, began using big strobes at Final Fours for all the years since. The early days required huge Ascor strobes with four 1000–watt/second condensers with a quick charger on each of the four light clusters. As
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Nancy Crase, who attended both the Sports and Summit Workshops, is the author of a light-painted picture in the March issue of Arizona Highways. Dave Black’s hands-on teaching of the light painting technique led Nancy to photograph the flower in the picture with that technique and Jeff Kida, the photo editor of the magazine, told
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James Balog, a regular teacher at the Summit Workshops over the years, continues to attract attention with his latest project using 30 Nikon cameras in all-weather housings to record some of the world’s shrinking glaciers. His previous projects, which he has described at the evening sessions at the Summit have included an ode to the
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James Hill became the European contract photographer for The New York Times in 1995 and has been based in Moscow and Rome. He produced a remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the Russian penal system made famous by words — those of Solzhenitzyn’s devastating portrait of the gulag. The pictures appeared in the Times and can be
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Sports Illustrated’s annual “Best Sports Pictures of 2008″ issue is out, dominated by the pictures of Heinz Kleutmeier, Damian Strohmeyer and John Biever, all faculty members from Sports Photography Workshops over the years. This year also features a picture by Rich Clarkson from the National High School Finals Rodeo, an amazing and embarrassing moment in
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Fall Photography at the Summit 2008 alumnus Karen Schuenemann shared with us this great shot from Thanksgiving weekend taken in El Dorado Park in Long Beach, CA. She was positioned about 10 feet away when the Osprey hit the water, grabbed it’s lunch and spirited away.
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David Burnett has a unique sense of place, importance — and humor. Thus, he has crafted a video from his trip to the olympics in Beijing that is particularly enjoyable. Entitled “The Olympics You Didn’t See,” it shows what an American press corps person sees, experiences and what it was REALLY like to try and photograph
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A photographic exhibition of work from the Spring Photography at the Summit week are now on display in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole as the workshop went green in a big way. Partnering with the International League of Conservation Photographers, “a group of some 60 of the world’s leading photographers specializing
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Reuters and MediaStorm collaborated to create ‘Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War’ to coincide with the war’s 5th anniversary. The site features profiles of three Reuter’s journalists who have more than 23 years combined experience reporting and photographing in Iraq. Reuters video, photography, infographics and journalists are showcased in this five chapter interactive application
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