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Oaxaca Photography Workshop So the workshop is over. I only have a few minutes, so let me just say it was incredible. I want to thank the instructors, Dave, Raul, and Eniac for all of your help, inspiration, and friendship. Selma, Cristina, Eva, Mike, and Marie were the assistants for the workshop and they provided needed technical assistance, organized our herd of cats, and I want to thank them for making the whole experience unforgettable. Also, to all my fellow students, I want to thank you for the camaraderie, assistance, and inspiration. We also had two guest photographers who offered words of encouragement and provided inspiration through their incredible work, Marcela Taboada and Suki. Most of these instructors have also formed a company to lead various photographic expeditions in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain. I would highly recommend traveling with these wonderful people, especially if you have the photography bug big time. On this page, I have posted my pictures that made the final class presentation (and in this album so they can be viewed without any of the artifacts of copying onto this page). The class presentation can be seen here, its an incredible experience put together by Dave Raul, and Eniac from the best pictures the students took during the workshop. Please take the time to watch it (it will take about 2 minutes to load - for best viewing, you may want to download the file and run it from your computer, so you can enlarge the images). I have assembled some information on the workshop, where we shot, what we did, and about Oaxaca.
Thank you Raul for setting up this shot for me, outside Santo Domingo church in Oaxaca, Mexico Thanks to the people above, you should see a marked improvement in my photography on this page. The instructors followed a documentary/travel style and enforced several rules in the workshop:
Thanks to the regime of this workshop, none of the photos on this site show were altered in Photoshop, save one where I cropped and changed the color levels to save an image of a person I met- the first person who can tell me which picture will get a nice bottle of wine from my "cellar".
Taken at Mitla, with the church in the background, this is some type of "tree" growing out of some type of succulent plant. Slide Shows Below are several slide shows with my photographs from my time in Oaxaca. They are posted on YouTube, though the quality of YouTube videos is somewhat lacking. I have also included on this page links downloadable versions so you can see better quality images (they should take 1-1.5 minutes to load). Apologies to the Apple users if they cannot view these files. First off, is a slideshow with my best photographs from the workshop. The pictures here are basically in chronological order. Second, a slide show with pictures I took focusing on my fellow photographers and what it was like to shoot during the workshop. I would not say these pictures are my best, they are not. They were mostly taken when I stepped back from a subject at hand and shot the odd frame of what was happening at the time. But they will hopefully show what it was like during the workshop's shooting sessions. My only regret is that these are not my best pictures. The people in these photos helped to make this workshop the terrific experience that it was. Here is a link to a student video, posted on you tube, that several students and I put together. It will mean the most to those people who were there at Monte Alban that day. We hoped you enjoyed it. Thanks to Laura, Sean, and Eva who brought a lot of laughs during the five minutes we shot this and the fun we had conspiring to put together the show. If you write me at michaeljpalma@yahoo.com, I can send a copy of the file. This slide show contains pictures I took following the workshop, practicing what I learned on the Zocalo and in front of the cathedral on Friday and Saturday nights. Included are shots of a fold dance exhibition, a troop of clowns, the Oaxaca state governor's caravan, and a wedding party coming out of the cathedral. This slide show will contain pictures of the wonderful people who I met during my time in Oaxaca, who graciously allowed me to photograph them as they went about their lives, thank you. Thank you Juliana, Rosa, Alejandro, Rodrigo, Sophia, Lucy, Jose, Samuel, Fernando, and all the others. In the next section there is a link to an album of these and other pictures of these wonderful people I met in Oaxaca. Please feel free to download and print copies of these pictures.
This was taken at Monte Alban, the lines and texture struck me as particularly interesting on that hot afternoon. Albums Here are collections of pictures, most seen in the slide shows. Feel free to view these high resolution images and download for printing for your personal enjoyment. If you are interested in higher quality images for large format printing, please let me know. In the Final Show These are my five best images. Mitla Images from our first outing, at the ruins in Mitla. The Market Pictures from the covered market in Tlacolula de Matamoros. Sophia's Place These are pictures from Sophia's workshop, a candle maker in Teolitlan del Valle. The Weavers Pictures taken at the house of a weaving family in Teolitlan del Valle. The Church Includes pictures from the church and square in Teolitlan del Valle. Monte Alban Pictures from the ruins at Monte Alban. Santo Domingo Includes pictures from the shoot at the museum and Santo Domingo church, in Ciudad Oaxaca. The Livestock Market This is from our last class shoot, at a livestock market in Villa de Zaachila. Friends in Oaxaca Includes pictures of the wonderful people who I met during my time in Oaxaca, who graciously allowed me to photograph them as they went about their lives, thank you. Please feel free to download and print copies of these pictures. Shooters and Shooting Pictures I took focusing on my fellow photographers and what it was like to shoot during the workshop. I would not say these pictures are my best, they are not. They were mostly taken when I stepped back from a subject at hand and shot the odd frame of what was happening at the time. But they will hopefully show what it was like during the workshop's shooting sessions. After the workshop These were taken on Friday and Saturday nights in the Zocalo in Ciudad Oaxaca, after the end of the workshop, to practice what I had learned.
At the Livestock market, these guys were chomping down prior to being sold Hasta La Vista Michael
At the weaver's house in Teolitlan del Valle |
