I’m starting to wonder when evidence about being a couch potato will stop focusing on the amount of time people spend watching TV.  I for one don’t watch much TV but probably spend equivalent amounts of time as the “average” person glued to my computer either reading on line, fixated with my photographs or wedded to my blog.  Lately we’ve also started watching more TV from the computer than the TV broadcasters so in all I think I must be surpassing the elite levels of sedentary slothdom.

Last week I watch hours of another online photography course.  Free to air I watched Jasmine Star (J*), an American wedding photographer internet rockstar preaching her business ways to a swooning internet audience.  This woman is definitely larger than life itself with a self deprecating style that is equally matched by a steely determination to achieve and deliver great results.  Part of this course was to see her photograph a wedding live – that takes guts and she pulled it off with real panache.   I admire her for putting herself out there and being a leader in her field sharing what she knows to benefit others.

J* is primarily a natural light photographer with a gift for spotting light and working with natural reflectors to bring life to her photographs.  The changing light was one of the biggest challenges at my much more down to earth photography workshop – you can see my earlier posts here and here. My models were less open to posing for the camera so it was most definitely a case of looking for the story and those moments in time. At the end of the day it was the sheep that were the stars of this show.  Doing what do sheep do naturally – roam the fields and eat.

But not before they’d been put through their paces by Blue and Greg to give the photographers something interesting to point their cameras at. Shame that they were on stage with the sun straight at us as it started to set behind the hills.

Those sheep were determined to have it their own way.

And who could blame them after having their Sunday disturbed. Although I did sense it was them that had the upper hand for a while.

But not for long as the true leaders stepped in to control things.

Ultimately Blue was called off and it was time for all to go home.

With the recent immersion in photography I’ve started to get my mojo back.  I’ve dusted off the camera manual again and started to tinker with some of the more sophisticated settings that give you much greater control over the focus and exposure.  Now all I need is some new subjects to model for me.  That or the bassets are in for some more serious internet exposure!