Last month, I was honored to be part of a workshop at The Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at the beautiful Quartz Mountain Arts and Conference Center. The two week long intensive program is aimed at the education and advancement of high school age students in the arts, including acting, creative writing, ballet, modern dance, orchestra, chorus, drawing and painting, photography, and film and video. It is an amazing academy and an excellent resource for gifted young artists. I found the students to be fantastic, all of them bright, enthusiastic and eager to learn.
Team Photo
Working alongside brilliant photographers Konrad Eek and Ben Long, I knew we were in for a great time when these two knuckleheads launched an impromptu 20 minute comedy routine to kick things off...
Konrad teaches photography at Oklahoma City Community College and runs Maxwell Eek Design Photography, a commercial photography studio focused on product and fashion photography for wholesale and retail catalogs. Ben is a San Francisco based photographer with a long list of commercial clients, a longtime contributor to many magazines including MacWeek, MacUser, Macworld UK, and is currently a senior contributing editor for Macworld magazine and a senior editor at CreativePro.com. His book, Complete Digital Photography, now in it's 6th edition, has become something of an industry standard. Together, the three of us formed "Team Photo" and had a blast sharing our diverse passion and knowledge of photography. (Taking notes myself during their lectures, I found the students weren't the only ones who had something to learn.)
