For the past 35 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 two intensive four-day, six-person "Communicating with Pictures" workshops each year on the floor of Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona, Arizona. I now also give comprehensive one-on-one tutorials to hobbyists and travel photographers in the basics of digital photography and photo-editing at my home in Phoenix. To receive an information packet describing either my Sedona workshops, or my Phoenix tutorials in digital photography, contact me at
pnd1@cox.net.
I offer two different collections of galleries on the web. My teaching site is at
http://www.pbase.com/pnd1 . It is entitled "Expressive Travel Photography: Communicating with Pictures.” It is intended as a "cyber-book" on photographic expression. It contains over a thousand of my favorite images. Instead of explaining how I made these photos in terms of their technical standards and techniques, I show them to you as examples of 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 structure my pbase galleries as an interactive teaching device.
My other website is designed for travelers. It contains digital travel articles on all of my trips since 2001. It is at
http://worldisround.com/home/pnd1/index.html
If you are interested in traveling to a particular part of the world, and want to see what it's like before you go, this site may help.
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