Join us for our First Wednesday Monthly Meeting presented by Craig Strong from Lensbaby.
This meeting will be held via Microsoft Teams. Members will be sent login information via email. If you’d like to attend as a guest, please email us at info@darkroomers.com so we can add you to the guest list.
With stories from your photographic journey and the significant milestones that have defined your creative vision, Craig will lead us in exploring ways to expand our vision of the world in ways that are consistent with your journey, ways that bring you closer to who you are and what you see.
Please prepare for our discussion by considering the following questions:
- What’s your first cherished memory?
- Do you see it:
- From your eyes?
- From someone else’s perspective?
- With a wide lens/telephoto lens?
- Crystal clear/hazy?
- What is the quantity and quality of the light?
- Do you see it:
- How has your way of seeing this cherished memory affected your vision of the world around you?
- What might you do to portray the world in ways more consistent with this early vision?
- How has your photographic vision of the world grown in ways that have surprised or delighted you?
- Is there an event that led to you seeing a subject matter in a new, unique way?
- What/how do you see now that you didn’t see before that event occurred?
- What would you like to portray in your photographs that you see but have a hard time capturing?
About Craig Strong
Craig Strong’s career as a photographer grew from a staff photographer position at his college newspaper to photographing for The Oregonian, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Sports Illustrated and numerous other magazines and newspapers. Having learned on-the-job as a photojournalist, especially from staff photographers Greg Anderson, Karen Tapia and Keith Durflinger, during an internship at the Whittier Daily News, Strong learned to recognize moments and apply his creative vision to capturing those moments in increasingly unique ways. Over nearly two decades as a professional photographer, the lack of ideal, affordable tools to realize Strong’s creative vision turned his efforts more and more toward making the photographic tools he needed, eventually leading him to cofound Lensbaby, Inc. in 2003. For nearly 20 years, he’s served as the Chief Creative Officer at Lensbaby, heading up their R&D efforts to bring unique creative effects lenses and filters to visual artists all over the world.
