Since the photo workshop, with the lawns cut, the electrical fixed, I have been scanning some of my old Kodachrome slides that are about 40 years old. For years I have been an advocate for the ‘the moment’ as the greatest gift in the process of seeing and connecting to the life around us. [...]
With the photography class over and my final day with Jonathan coming to a close, I can feel the pace of my life about to slow down. So much has transpired in the last two weeks: a new computer system and time capsule hard drive backup, reorganizing and updating all of my systems inside, also [...]
Here we sit again on the porch, hopefully quenched, at least full from a week of wonderful sharing, encouraging and witnessing our photographic process. Like a gardener watching his plants, I feel this year will be a bumper crop ready to be harvested in each of your lives. This week is about fertilizer – [...]
Richard A. Cooke III, has been a professional photographer for 40 years. Much of that time he worked as a freelancer for The National Geographic Society, where he traveled to much of the world on a variety of assignments. His main interest is focusing on the innate beauty of his subjects and honoring that.