Behind the Scenes

BEHIND THE  SCENES is the detail of experience when I shoot the image. Stories about my impressions and thoughts as photographer are shared from a more intimate take, and perhaps offers greater understanding, of what’s going with me when I’m behind the camera in the moment and behind the scenes

© Saman Tree in St Kitts, Caribbean. Photograph by Mina Thevenin   SHADES OF BLACK & WHITE  I see the composition in my mind’s eye. Then I take the picture. I know it will be expressed at its best in black and white, because the integrity of the relationship between subject, camera and me—as photographer—speaks, in that moment, to the finer details of that which can only be revealed in black and white. READ MORE

 

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© Tree on Lake Sublime. Photographer Mina Thevenin in Colorado in Winter

SHOOTING THE SUBLIME  “in photography happens rather unexpectedly. For me, it’s the feeling of the experience, like gazing at the night sky and being suddenly surprised at the sight of a shooting star.”   READ MORE