Don Denton is a photographer, photo editor and photo coach who lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
UVic Documentary Photography Course Done
April 11, 2012 | Filed Under Gallery & Workshop | Leave a Comment
I’ve just finished up the documentary project class I was teaching as part of the University of Victoria’s Continuing Education program. The first time for continuing ed and it was a great experience. A small class but enthusiastic and everyone ended up working on a great project of their choice. The best part of teaching for me is watching the students’ confidence and skill improve through the duration of the course. We ended up with a real variety of projects and some amazing individual photographs. I’ve got another proposal in for a fall course at UVic. I’ll post the details when I know it’s a go. It’ll be a very different photo offering.
New posting at Saltwater & Rain
April 1, 2012 | Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
Catching up with this blog, emails, Facebook and my Tumblr blog for my Pacific Northwest photography project Saltwater & Rain. Check out the latest post there at:
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/saltwaterandrain
Recent images
April 1, 2012 | Filed Under Daily Work | Leave a Comment
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. It always seems to be the last thing I get to. Here’s some recent images.
Olympic Peninsula Weekend Road Trip
January 17, 2012 | Filed Under Blog, Road Trip | Leave a Comment
Hit the road for a weekend with a trip around the Olympic Peninsula. I’d been down the east side before travelling to and from Portland but hadn’t done the whole loop around the peninsula. Great trip although the weather was constantly changing, providing a number of challenges for driving and making it difficult to get all the photos I wanted. That said it was a lot of fun and I saw lots of places that I want to go back to.
Nice Promo For Pacific Northwest Photo Blog
January 4, 2012 | Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
The crew at The Tyee gave me a nice plug for my new Pacific Northwest blog Saltwater & Rain. You can check it out here on their BC blog listing page.
New blog for Pacific Northwest Photography Project
December 21, 2011 | Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
I’ve started a Tumblr blog for my Pacific Northwest project Saltwater & Rain. A visual and literary archive(ing) of the Pacific Northwest. Check it out here. Become a follower if you like what you see. In case the link isn’t working go here – http://saltwaterandrain.tumblr.com/
Photography Courses at the University of Victoria
December 5, 2011 | Filed Under Workshop | Leave a Comment
I’ll be teaching two courses for UVic Continuing Studies in the new year.
Introduction to Community Newspaper Photojournalism
This course is for photographers considering a career in photojournalism, bloggers who want to improve the visual content of their sites and for the photographer who wants to explore new avenues of creativity. Participants will study the five main types of photo assignment for the community photojournalist: news, sports, feature, environmental portrait and the photo essay. You will examine the images of working photographers, learn workflow and editing techniques and be given assignments to complete between classes.
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Documentary Photography: Creating the Personal Project
In this course you will learn how to use the techniques of documentary work to create a personal photo project. Participants will examine the work of other documentary photographers and see how and why certain ways of seeing and photographing can be applied to their work. You will learn how to organize your own projects, budget time, find out how to edit a project and discover different ways to bring that project to a larger audience.
full details here: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/
Mike Andrew McLean – Thirty-Five thousand Forty at Open Space
November 15, 2011 | Filed Under Exhibition | Leave a Comment
An eye and mind boggling exhibit by Mike Andrew McLean at the Open Space gallery in Victoria. Here’s the intro from the gallery’s web page:
Thirty-Five Thousand Forty
Mike Andrew McLean
November 10 to December 10, 2011
Opening November 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Thirty-Five Thousand Forty is the physical culmination of Mike Andrew McLean’s project to shoot ninety-six photographs a day for three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days. McLean’s year of photos, now printed as 4”x6” snapshots, will tile the interior of Open Space, forming a sprawling record of the artist’s life from June 2010 to June 2011.
McLean writes “photography in the digital era is developing its own language, forging unique processes and technologies. It seems to have reached the democratic potential that George Eastman predicted one hundred years ago, when he took the process out of the studio of the trained craftsman and put it into the hands of the unskilled hobbyist.” McLean turns the idea of digital photography inside out, conferring an analogue physicality and monumentality onto a format that proliferates effortlessly, flooding websites, Facebook, memory cards and hard drives in an unimaginably deep cloak of images.
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Note the final photo posted here. Dan Milnor snaps a photo of a 2G hard drive mounted on the gallery wall. All the photos in the show are stored on that one drive.
Don Denton and T. J. Watt Exhibition Opening at Dales Gallery
November 14, 2011 | Filed Under Exhibition | 1 Comment
Here’s a few images from the opening last week of the joint photo exhibition for T. J. Watt and myself called Seeing The Forest For The Trees at Dales Gallery in Victoria’s Chinatown. The show, See The Forest For The Trees, runs until November 25.
Young Buck On The Golf Course
August 10, 2011 | Filed Under Photojournalism | Leave a Comment
A normal hazard for this par of the world, a young buck deer jogs across a golf course.