A wonderful weekend with my sons

As most of you know my sons are the most creative creation I have done. I love any and all time I have with them and developing a whole new relationship with adult kids is just the best. Kyle and I are in the process of developing a joint business, will be sharing this very soon, I so can't wait. He and I met in Boston this weekend and then went down to Scituate to watch Bryce in a National Lifting Competition. Since Bryce doesn't let me go to the gym with him (what's that all about???) I have never watched him lift, this has been a passion of his for years and he is diligent with his workouts. The competition was a lot of fun, even watching his face turn bright red and his veins popping. He was awesome in so many ways, he won 2 first places in his division, a gold medal and he was the only lifter to wear white ballet slippers....yes he is my son and has the hair to prove it. Congrats to you Bryce. For more photos from the competition, http://www.facebook.com/laurie.j.klein?ref=profile

Peters Valley Photographic Retreat

It will take me a few blog entries to describe the incredible photographic retreat I went on this past weekend at Peter's Valley. I will be teaching at the Peters Valley Craft Center this summer. This is a  photograph that I took there yesterday. The area is gorgeous and filled with streams, rivers, lakes and other bodies of water. Perfect for the workshop I will be teaching http://www.petersvalley.org/brochure/photography.pdf

Bodies in Water: The Penultimate Metaphor 

Laurie Klein 

August 13-16 (4 day) 

Photography in and around water presents unique challenges and op-portunities. In this workshop we will use the female form in water to ex-plore the many techniques for cre-ating stunning metaphoric images. By conducting daily shooting exer-cises, you will gain insight and knowl-edge about reflectivity, exposures in changing conditions, and the pros and cons of b&w, infrared and color photography under these condi-tions. Best of all with be the fun and unpredictability that only water of-fers. You will learn special pre-visualization techniques, as well as how to pose your subject and use artificial textures to create organic results. In addition, there will be end of day group interaction, group cri-tiquing and an opportunity for indi-vidual critiquing of your portfolio by Laurie Klein. This workshop is for women only.

Joanne Conant, an incredibly talented artist is having her first one woman art exhibit displaying her paintings.

Joanne Conant Invitation
Danbury City Hall Art Exhibition

Come join the artist for the opening reception of
"Tranquility"
Landscape oil paintings by
Joanne Conant
April 22, 2010,  Danbury City Hall, 155 Deer Hill Avenue
5:30 to 7pm.The Gallery is located on the third floor.

Joanne has been involved in the arts for over thirty years as an enamellist and metal smith.  She studies painting with master painter Ira Barkoff at the Washington Art Association.  Joanne has been invited by the Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance to show her work at an exhibition at the mayor's office in Danbury.
 Joanne cordially invites you to the opening reception. The show is entitled Tranquility.   Her inspiration  is quiet, peaceful moments shared with nature.
 The show runs from April 22 through June 3rd.  City Hall is open Monday - Thursday from 7:30 to 6:00.  The reception is free, and open to the public.  All paintings displayed are for sale.

Please visit the H.V.C.A. website, www.hvculturalarts.org  to find out more about this wonderful organization.

For additional information please contact Joanne at JSConant@charter.net.
Joanne Conant
www.JSConant@charter.net
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Shona Curtis' Photo Exhibit

This evening my friend and incredible acupuncturist Jody Murray www.acupxtherapy.blogspot.com and I went to see Shona's photographs at Bank Street Coffee House, 56 Bank St. New Milford, CT. www.ShonArtPhotography.com. Her photographs will be on exhibit through May9th. If you get a chance go up and see her work. She did a wonderful job grouping her images and has a flare for a quirkiness of structure and metaphors in her imagary.

Behind the scene of April's Moment of the Month

While I was in Florida I spent a day with the wonderful photographer, Cherilyn Nocera. She is as beautiful inside as out. http://www.noceraphotographic.com/ We photographed on Pine Island on a chilly, perfect infrared day. As we were walking I saw this incredible tree that reached up into the sky beckoning to be photographed. As she leaned into the tree I asked her to look up. The moment came and I acted on it and took this photo. We must have spent 4 hours photographing that day. I love the images I created and having the chance to get to know this gentle spirit.