Intro to Urban Landscape Photography
Class - Photography | Registration opens 5/13/2025 9:00 AM EDT
Want to create stunning urban landscape photography? In this class you will explore the tips, techniques and secrets great urban photographers use. Urban landscape photography, quite literally, is the art of photographing urban environments. Humans have drastically altered the natural world, creating urban landscapes filled with towering high- rise buildings and hidden alleyways. Urban landscape photography captures the essence of urban life, from its bustling energy to its captivating architecture. Urban landscape photography is about understanding the language of the city and translating that to an image that can communicate a story, idea or feeling.
This class is great for photographers, artists at heart, or the curious wanting to explore the symbiotic relationship between contemplative practice and photography. You can use whatever camera that is available to you, including your cell phone. This class will also include an interactive photowalk experience in downtown Winston-Salem.
Timothy Auman
I am an ordained lay Buddhist, certified mindfulness teacher, and former university chaplain dedicated to the application of Taoist and Zen thought to the issues of everyday life. As a visual artist, my approach to photography focuses on learning (or perhaps we could say re-learning) how to see. My work is influenced by the Miksang (the Tibetan word for “good eye”) movement, having studied with John McQuade and Miriam Hall for many years. In contemplative photography, we focus on taking the time to actually see, to become aware of and present with what is actually happening in the phenomenal world, and then create an equivalent image with our camera. The main difference between Miksang Contemplative Photography and other forms of photography is that Miksang is based on clear perception before an overlay of thoughts, interpretations, preferences, story lines, likes and dislikes, what we think might make a good image and so forth arise. Meditation, dharma teachings and contemplation are woven into all I teach. If you want to know more about contemplative photography, please sign up for a class.