Workshop: Within The Waves -- river photography with Craig Blacklock

Name: Workshop: Within The Waves -- river photography with Craig Blacklock
Start: 2025-05-03T07:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-04T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 800 Riverview Dr, Winona, MN, United States, Minnesota 55987

Schedule

Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 07:00 am to Sun, 04 May, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

800 Riverview Dr, Winona, MN, United States, Minnesota 55987 | Winona, MN

Saturday, May 3 - Sunday, May 4 | Sunrise - 4p daily
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Tuition: $250 [Member Rate: $240]
Register: https://mmam.org/calendar2/2025/craig-blacklock
**About the workshop**
Moving water’s ability to distort light passing through and reflecting off its surface, warping and fragmenting the surroundings, makes it an ideal medium for abstract art. Starting before sunrise, students will photograph reflections on the Mississippi River, experimenting with different perspectives and shutter speeds. Light will serve as their paint, the waves as their brushstrokes, and the camera sensor as their canvas. Later in the day, the class will edit their images using both traditional and AI-based software, guided by examples from both painting and photography, and share their work during critiques. Participants will gain an understanding of how exposure times affect the appearance of moving water, abstract design and color principles, and how to use AI software to further enhance their images.
Craig Blacklock has devoted his nearly 50-year career to photographing the interface of land and water in wilderness settings—particularly Lake Superior. His recent book, Light Waves—Abstract Photographs of Reflections from Lake Superior (an image from which is in the MMAM collection), along with the Within the Waves exhibition that came out of that work, is entirely based on photographs of reflections on moving water. Blacklock developed unique capture and editing techniques that have nearly created a new medium, one filled with rich colors, extreme textures, and remarkable detail, even in very large images. Over the course of his career, Blacklock has published 19 books, held more than 35 solo exhibitions (two at MMAM), and received numerous international awards.