Springtime at Wildcat Hill

Greetings, here's a bunch of news about what Kim and I have been doing in the past month. We are on our way to be with Al Weber's group down at the San Miguel Mission. Hope it cools down a bit. Today the fog is thick which means its hot in the valley! Advanced Landscape Workshop with Kim and Randy Efros The class started at local painter Reed Farrington's studio just a few miles down scenic Hwy 1. Reed gave us an exclusive painting demo. We photographed around his home and grounds. We photographed along the beautiful coast, the weather was wonderful. Kim and Randy both gave in depth critiques to the students. We visited the Ansel Adams Portrait show at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel. A show worth seeing. Dinner at Wildcat Hill around the fireside with guest photographers Huntington Witherill and Rachael Short. Kim showed his newest painted ballerina photographs. Wildcat Studio Nude II - April 6 & 7, 2009 What a great group of photographers to be with on our first nude workshop of the year. After an exhausting search for models (Kim swears every time he came into the gallery that I was on the internet looking at naked girls :-) He was right! I finally found several for that weekend. They were all great and the time I invested in finding them paid off. I have seen some wonderful images and can't wait to see more. Guest photographers included Evynn LeValley, Ryuijie, and Huntington Witherill. If you missed this one the next one is in June and we still have a few openings in the Weston Figure Workshop sponsored by Mark Comon of Paul's Photo. Check out the workshop page for more info. www.kimweston.com/workshops/workshop.htm Photo by Mike Kirwan Wildcat Studio II A Day with Kim Weston - March 28, 2009 Our workshop series began at the end of March with "A day with Kim Weston" It was a fun group, we toured Edward Weston's house and darkroom, and showed a lot of photography including Kim, Edward, Brett and Cole! Kim also shared some of Brett's large format negatives. In the afternoon we toured the north shore of Point Lobos State Park where Edward took many of his famous tree photos. Later, we had dinner with several guest photographers including, Huntington Witherill, Cody Edison and sculptor Micah Curtis from Big Sur. Barbara Briggs-Anderson of Loon Hill Studios contacted Kim to see if he would print a photograph from an original Julian P Graham negative for our 41st President Bush. Julian was the official photographer of The Del Monte Properties known today as The Pebble Beach Company. The photograph is Bobby Jones, Roger Lapham and Prescott Bush (Bush's father),1929 at Pebble Beach Golf Course. Of course Kim said "yes" he'd be honored to. The JP Graham Historical Collection is a proud sponsor of the Weston Photography Scholarship Fund donating $1000 to a high school winner. For more information about our scholarship www.westonscholarship.org