Paul Herholz
Paul will be presenting prints from his August 2012 trip to Iceland. With a few exceptions they are all taken in the Highlands.
He was a member of a photo tour consisting of himself, three other participants, the pro and his wife. They lived in a cottage and the wife did the cooking (magnificently). No TV or radio for a week. Just conversation. He thought it was a nice change from “normal” life.
He scheduled two plus days by himself in Reykjavik a city he found fascinating. He wandered the streets most of the time and did more street photography than he had ever done. He will include two montage prints of photos taken in Reykjavik.
Iceland is geographically unique in the world. He highly recommend it to any landscape photographer as well as he recommends a photo tour of some kind. The interior of the country is difficult. He’s not sure that you’d be happy with the results if you made this trip on your own.
He has three albums from Iceland on my website, www.paulherholz.phanfare.com The largest is called “The Highlands”, another is “Reykjavik”, and finally “Iceland-Memory Pictures”. This is the back story, so to speak. His photo bio follows:
My interest in photography has been at both ends of my life, when I was a teenager and now, with not much in the middle. My formal education was a correspondence course from The New York Institute of Photography and Navy photography training. As a kid I would load film in the closet and then wait for dark to do printing in the basement. After I got my driver’s license I worked part time in a camera shop during high school and early college.
When I was 17 I joined the Navy Reserve and became a photographers mate, using the iconic 4×5 Speed Graphic. When I got my Army commission photography went by the wayside. For no known reason, I again developed a serious interest in photography about four years ago. I’ve always loved travel and now photography is the reason for the trips I take. I have other subject interests but travel photography is primary.
Self Improvement Project
Showing the images created by the participants in the self-improvement project throughout the club year.
“The objective of these field trips is to improve our photographic vision by learning to recognize and use the building blocks of visual design in creating images. If you’re like me, you have favorite pictures, ones you have taken and those taken by others, but have difficulty articulating what it is that makes them good. Hopefully, these Self Improvement Field Trips will help us in consciously using the elements of visual design to create and understand compelling images.”
We used Freeman Patterson’s book, “Photographing The World Around You” (A Visual Design Workshop) as a study aid. Each month there was an assignment, e.g lines, triangles, circles, etc. There were monthly field trip to Green Spring Park.
Bob Friedman