When leading workshops I have a topic I like to cover called “Now That You Got It What Do You Do With It”. This refers to coming home from a workshops with a lot of good images and not really doing anything in particular with them. On a workshop recently to Tuscany with Art Wolfe he and I were talking and he said you should have a topic or something you concentrate on while shooting and he referred to it as a project. On that trip I focused on door knockers and the hanging laundry of Sienna. Today we have come full circle and Alain Briot as part of his continuing series of essays focuses on the topic of projects. Alain’s Why Photography Projects Are Important is a great read and will be a benefit when going out on your next shoot. I am now going to go back through some of my past work and look for a theme to develop as a few new projects.
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