Angkor Photo Workshop - soundslides presentations and farewell

Angkor Photo Workshop – soundslides presentations and farewell

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When a group of 18 people get together there is an expectation that everyone will become fast friends, that everyone will get along. Throw in the creative temperaments of 18 photographers, and at least 7 different nationalities and statistically you are pushing your luck.

For this reason alone the last two weeks on the inaugural Angkor Photo Workshop, led by Karl Grobl, Gavin Gough, Matt Brandon and myself has been remarkable. I can’t think when I last so enjoyed such a large group’s diverse experience, humor and company.

Looking for Matt Brandon - the fourth Musketeer

Great workshops are often about opportunity. Gavin talked in one of his lecture’s on the workshop about “making the luck” – how being in the right place at the right time was seldom luck and more the result of detailed knowledge, experience, reserach and hard work. I think we were so fortunate that Karl Grobl made “the luck” for all of us – tireless and yet unobtrusive organization, amazing locations, zero tourists and his irrepressible good humored approach to life – ensuring that all 18 of us became fast friends with each other.

And now it is at an end. We leave this morning for Siem Reap and the airport – although Gavin and I are staying on for a few days of personal shooting. It has been a humbling experience to watch each and everyone of the participants blossom (photographically!) and as is so often the case on workshops we have learned as much from them as they have hopefully taken from us. Below is a slideshow with a few images contributed by each of the participants:

I’ve also included the 4 winning Soundslides presentations that were competed at the end of the first week, to give you a hint at some of the talent and creativity we so enjoyed. Without exception, none of the group had used Soundslides and Audacity before, yet everyone mastered it and produced wonderful multimedia presentations.

To Ruti, Scot, Jasper, Melissa, Catherine, Lisa, Chris, Ursula, Carl, Jenny, Darrell, Andrew, Tim and Ayn thank you for your energy, passion and friendship.

And to each of you reading this – save the last 2 weeks of July 2012 and come and join the four of us on the second Angkor Photo Workshop.

First place, Lisa Brockman and Scot Sargeant

Second Equal: Ursula Wall and Carl Johan Ragnarsson

Second Equal: Ayn Brown and Chris Choulos

Third Place: Catherine Wisner and Jenny Krasner

This entry was posted on Monday, July 25th, 2011 at 2:36 am. It is filed under Travel, Workshops and tagged with Angkor Photo Workshop, Gavin Gough, Karl Grobl, Matt Brandon, Photo Workshops. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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Jeff Fielding says:

July 25, 2011 at 3:21 am

M-

Seems like just what the doctor ordered!

Jeff

Marco Ryan says:

July 25, 2011 at 6:14 am

It has been fabulous fun – exhausting, rewarding and a barrel of laughs

Craig Ferguson says:

July 25, 2011 at 4:15 am

Fantastic work on what looks to have been a fantastic journey. Of the multimedia pieces, I found Water Lily Soup to be the most gripping but they were all excellent.

Marco Ryan says:

July 25, 2011 at 6:15 am

Really Amazing since neither of them had never done audio or soundslides before!

Jens Stachowitz says:

July 25, 2011 at 8:44 am

Marco, seeing that is wonderful! It is a great pleasure to see the outcome of your workshop and the joy you and the others had within. Thank you for sharing, Jens.

Marco Ryan says:

July 26, 2011 at 6:48 am

We had a wonderfully talented group with boundless energy!

Ed says:

July 26, 2011 at 2:59 am

What beautiful work. So very evocative of the people and place. It brings back fond memories of our time in Siem Reap on honeymoon, especially the last one which mirrored our experience with a village family for a day.

Marco Ryan says:

July 26, 2011 at 6:50 am

It is a wonderful place, isn’t it? The people are so welcoming and warm hearted. And the light is glorious