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Are you open to new experiences? Of course you are. That's why you took the effort to look us up. Worldview has been organized to make these experiences valuable, comfortable and enjoyable. We honor the investment we are asking you to make in our photo workshop and we are confident that you will be pleased with our efforts.

Joel Meyerowitz once wrote, " Arriving at the rim of this famous landmark, they shuffle about, searching for a sign that says "shoot here". With one pre-set image labelled Grand Canyon in their minds, blinding them to what lies below, they search for the one and only "right" spot to stand."

Their pre-set notions yield no new discoveries. Armed with inflexible vision they are incapable of seeing the unexpected having been stuck with expectations of how things ought to look.

In the practice of photography this constricted awareness not only robs one of his or her creativity, but imprisons the individuals' vision and art. There is simply no opportunity to appreciate the scope of the visual richness that lies before us, buried and blocked by the limitation of one's own mental constructs.
What must be achieved is a mental liberation away from the frame of mind that captures the photographer in a net of techniques, rules and attempts to gain total control over the subject. It is better to respond holistically and spontaneously to the scene without interference. This does not imply that mastering the technical skills necessary for photographic capture is unneccessary or irrelevant. It means that one must exercise freedom from the discriminatory mind. One needs to reject it as unreliable as a guide to the artistry and the visual experience in order to nurture a more full and apreciated awareness of life - a merging of self and environment. (Adapted from the Tao of Photography by Gross and Shapiro; 10 Speed Press)

The sum total of this is to have a full experience - the final photograph is only the tangible offspring.