Message from Phil Douglis
For nearly 40 years, I've been teaching photographic communication as well as pursuing my passion for travel photography. I am director of The Douglis Visual Workshops in Phoenix, Arizona, and have been training organizational photojournalists and photo-editors in visual literacy since 1971.
I currently offer all of my face-to-face training sessions as comprehensive, one-on-one tutorial workshops in digital imaging and photographic communication. These tutorials provide flexibility in cost, length, and content, can extend from one to four days, and can be adjusted to cover everything from basic digital photography skills and photo-editing, to expressive travel photography. I now work with photographers and editors at all levels, and can also help beginning to advanced photographic hobbyists. I offer these tutorials only in Phoenix, Arizona. You can request more information, or schedule training with me, by sending an email to pnd1@cox.net
This collection of galleries, entitled "Expressive Travel Photography: Communicating with Pictures,” is intended as a "cyber-book" on photographic expression. Launched on pbase in 2003, this interactive learning device is, in essence, an educational blog about visual literacy. I have responded to thousands of comments left by viewers in these galleries, and I invite pbase subscribers to add their own views to this invaluable body of opinion and ideas. The cyberbook has drawn nearly four million page views to date, and it contains nearly 17,000 comments illuminating approximately 2,200 images. I have written my own commentary on each image as well. Instead of explaining how I made these photos in terms of their technical standards and techniques, I show you how and why I use a camera to express my feelings and ideas about what I encounter on my travels. I hope that this "cyber-book" can help you learn how to better express your own photographic ideas, particularly how to interpret, rather than just describe, what we see before us.
I suggest that you first read my 14 paragraph introduction on the gallery index page. (Click on the "All Galleries" link at the top of this page.) It will give you an essential context for getting the most out of my cyberbook. I recommend that you study galleries one, two and three first. They provide a solid foundation for photographic expression. The remaining galleries can be browsed in any order.
I offer these ideas here on the internet as a complimentary educational resource for passionate photographers around the world. I am grateful to the hundreds of people who I've photographed in these images. Knowingly or unknowingly, by appearing in my photos, these people are indirectly helping others to learn and grow as photographic artists. I thank them all for their help. On the other hand, I would hope that none of them will object to being in my pictures. If so, I would hasten to remove them.
A large thumbnail is displayed for each image, along with a detailed caption explaining how I intended to express my ideas. If you click on the large thumbnail, you can see the image in its full size, as well as leave comments and read the comments of others. If you are a pbase member, I hope you will be able to participate in the dialogue. This is an interactive learning device, an educational blog about visual literacy. If you are pbase subscriber, please feel free to ask any questions below the images, and let us know how you feel these pictures work as expression. You will be helping me to teach, and others to learn. Also be sure to carefully study my latest "topics" listings, which contain links to some of pbase's most substantive and inspirational galleries. ( Just click on the "View Phil Douglis's topics" link on this page to see them.)
I also display my images as a travel photography archive at http://www.pnd1.smugmug.com I present 3,000 travel images there (including many of those I use here in my pbase galleries) in a trip by trip format.
(In June of 2008, German composer Karsten Klemme used many of my images in a video. You can view it at http://www.jonsong.net/video/s-h-a-p-e.mpg )
Phil Douglis
Director, The Douglis Visual Workshops
Phoenix, Arizona
pnd1@cox.net
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