Confused by all those icons on your
point and shoot digital camera? You’ve taken some pictures but don’t know how to
view, print or email them to family and friends? In two evenings we will cover
the basics of digital photography for point and shoot cameras. Learn how to make
the most of all the features that are standard on most cameras including macro
photography, working without a flash and more. Learn how to transfer your images
to a computer, flash drive or CD, upload them to the web or email them to
friends. We will be working with Picasa, a free software program for cataloguing
and editing images from Google. Students should bring their digital camera with
manual, notebook and a 1MB flash drive. All the images on this site
were done with a Nikon P3 point and shoot camera.
$34/$39 Non Resident
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A
weekend to explore your inner and outer world through the lens of
meditation and photography using a guided series of exercises, contemplations
and discussion. How does your inner thought process influence what you see
and how does what you see influence your thoughts? Using meditation to calm the mind and
open to our sense perceptions, we will see
how that influences what we see and what we photograph. How does
our imagery differ when initiated by the
world rather than our thoughts about the world? And what can we
discover about ourselves in the process? This program will include
teachings from Buddhist master and photographer, Chӧgyam Trungpa Rinpoche and
great contemplative photographers, such as Minor White and John Daido Loori.
Learn to use your camera as a tool for developing mindfulness and greater
appreciation of things as they are. Bring a digital camera (a simple point
and shoot camera is fine or a DSLR), journal and at least a 1MB flash drive.
$75. deposit due upon
registration. Scholarships for the balance of the class fee are available
on an as-needed basis.
FMI contact Rebekah
Cost: $150. per person
| To make a $75.00 deposit with balance due by June 26 |
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Using a digital camera and contemplative exercises learn to look with fresh
eyes at the ordinary world. Experience how slowing down and seeing things as
they are can improve your images.
Ages 15 and up • Wed/Thurs 8/4 and 8/5 from 1-5 pm • 8 hours at PENINSULA SCHOOL
Cost: $80.00
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Check in to the luxury of Kismet Inn for a weekend of inner and outer exploration of perception through meditation and digital photography. Learn how these two disciplines complement each other. Slowing down and opening up your sense perceptions through a meditative practice heightens your awareness. Cultivating awareness brings you into the "decisive moment" where great images can be perceived and recorded in camera. A contemplative approach to photography takes the photographer beyond the filters of habit, opening them to the wealth of imagery that is ever present in our everyday world. Then even the simplest of cameras becomes a powerful tool for expression, capturing moments of presence/nowness as revelations for both the photographer and the viewer. For as John Cage once said, "Art is everywhere, it is only seeing which stops now and then..."
The weekend program will include meditation instruction, contemplative exercises with camera, discussion, image review and opportunities to photograph the beauty of Midcoast Maine. All levels of photographic experience are welcome. All one needs is a digital camera, either a point and shoot or DSLR. As the focus of the weekend will be on what is behind the camera, the more intuitive the equipment, the better.
Rebekah Younger is both a photographer and meditator who has explored through her work the intersection between art and meditation for the past 10 years. Her entire professional art career spans more than 30 years. She holds a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College with a specialization in Contemplative Arts, Photography and Buddhist Philosophy.
For more information about Kismet Inn and to sign up for this retreat go to: www.kismetinnmaine.com