Over the years I have had the privilege of working with and shooting with some amazing photographers. Photography to many of us photographers is like a good game of golf. We can get out there with our friends shoot images, talk about what a great shot it was and feel bad when we just can’t seem to get the shot. I find it a lot more staisfying and less frustrating than chasing a ball around and trying to whack it with a stick. Well, Jackie Ranken takes the game of photography to a new level. I have had the pleasure of working with Jackie on a number of workshops and discovered as a result a whole new way of seeing. She is one of the most creative landscape photographers that I have ever met and she has certainly gotten the attention of her fellow Australian and New Zealand photographers when she started entering landscape images into major competitions with flying toasters in them.
I was shooting with Jackie two years ago and while we were out she found about ten feet of twine. The rest of the day she took this twine and interjected it into the shots she was making. She was wrapping bushes with it, dangling it from trees and laying it out on the ground. I found it totally refreshing to see this. Later during this trip a number of friends shooting with me stopped at an overlook to shoot a landscape vista and the bottom of the overlook hill was a bunch of old refrigerators, stoves and metal junk. One person in our group couldn’t help themselves and said “I see Jackie was already here”.
We hope you enjoy Jackie’s article “Kitchen Stories” and Other Realities. Luminous-Landscape will be working with Jackie in New Zealand this December and our Antarctica Workshops in January. If you can join us for these workshops you’ll get a chance to see Jackie in action.
Kevin Raber, Publisher
Are you planning on attending this year’s WPPI Trade Show and Convention in Las Vegas March 3-5? If so drop us an email. Kevin and Chris will be there reporting on the show and it would be great to meet some where and say hi.
Don’t forget to check out the Luminous-Landscape "Land Of The Polar Bear" workshops this July
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