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Episode 19: Today, I’m sitting down with Arizona-based landscape photographer, avid writer, and educator Colleen Miniuk to chat about:

• How she transitioned from a technical career to a more creative career
• The value of following your curiosity, letting go of expectations, playing, and being open to experimentation with photography
• Gestalt psychology of visual perception and how to use it to create more meaningful images
• The five inventories to take in the field to discover compositions
• How to cultivate a creative mindset and get into a state of flow with conceptual blending, pareidolia, and metaphorical associations
• Using verbal language to translate a scene into visual language to achieve your desired visual message
• Wallas Model of Creativity
• Some business advice to aspiring photographers
• Her photography advice column, “Dear Bubbles”
• And so much more!

LINKS MENTIONED:

Website: http://www.colleenminiuk.com 

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Colleen’s Photography Advice Column Dear Bubbles

Sheography™ Workshops

Purchase Colleen’s books at Analemma Press - Get 10% off her new book Photographing Acadia National Park, 2nd Edition with coupon code OPS2021 at checkout.

Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Model

Wallas Model of Creativity

Note: Some of the resources below may be affiliate links, meaning I receive a commission (at no extra cost to you) if you use that link to make a purchase.

Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon

Art and Visual Perception, Rudolph Arnheim

Perception and Imaging, John Suler and Richard Zakia

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