This week the one word challenge is serene.

In contrast to last week, this week will be nice and calm and relaxed.

Len discusses what makes a great photograph.

This week the one word challenge is speed.

Better get cracking! Who will be the speedy one and get their pic up first?

This week the one word challenge is conflicted.

Having conflicting feeling on what to post this week? Me too!

This week the one word challenge is powerful.

What powerful images can you find this week?

This presentation looks at similar issues to the previous portraiture presentation, through photographing flowers. Len talks us through considering flower photography as portraiture.

In this presentation Len talks us through a few things to think about when creating portraits…

Brooks Jenson is a photographer and publisher from the USA. His magazine ‘Lens Work’ is revered and collected the world over for its fine portfolios and high quality. I have been engaged in his work for nearly twenty years. In this presentation I introduce you to his work and his analysis of why his photographs fail. This is such a different take on my usual, concentrate on what is working and ignore the rest attitude that I have. I believe we need to celebrate the differences. Perhaps there is something here for you to learn.

This week the one word challenge is distance

How far will you go to get a photo to post this week!

This week the one word challenge is fragmented

Looking forward to seeing your images this week!

A miss hap with my computer sees this weeks presentation only recorded as a zoom meeting. Luckily I make two recordings and we have this one as a back up. Luckily this presentation is full of great abstract photographs from many different photographers and makes up for the lack finesse in the recording.

This presentation introduces us to the world of Abstract Photography. I think this only is the start of this huge and ponderous topic.

in this presentation Len discusses his love for the square format.

This week the one word challenge is Celebrate

Show us what you are celebrating this week!

In this, final episode of our compositional series, (only for the time being we suspect) Len discusses his rules and methods of composition. It acts as a summary of all of the composition series. It is so exciting to have completed this amazing series.

This week the one word challenge is Observation

Looking forward to seeing your images this week :)

Len asks us what constitutes ‘fine art photography’? He goes on to explain the nebulous idea that it really is a vague term used to differentiate artistic photography from commercial and editorial photography. Len then explains some of the considerations that you may like to address when creating fine art photography.

In this episode of the Composition course Len discusses how photographs talk to each other. He illustrates this with dyptiches and tryptiches.

In this continuation of the series Analyse This, Len explores some early Australain Pictorialism, with John Kauffman’s introduction of it to Australia and Harold Cazeaux’s Spirit of Endurance. Other artists discussed in this series are Pierre Dubreuil and his tribute to cubism and Jaroslav Rossler’s abstract work from the 1920’s. Len also discussed Margrethe Mather’s work, she was influential for Edward Weston, and they did some amazing work together that Margrethe clearly lead.