San Miguel de Allende, a United Nations World Heritage site filled with warm and welcoming people, is a compelling place for photographers. Its environs are rich with color, form, and shadows, and making good photographs depends, in part, on creating graphic strength through the placement of these elements in the frame. Learning to slow down and increase awareness helps in seeing a given scene and allows for the kind of creative response that leads to making pictures that matter. Technical skills are necessary, but pictures can’t be made on any camera unless one first develops the capacity to see.

Todd leads you through a series of lectures, demonstrations, and fun, supportive critiques to help you energize your ability to see photographs and rediscover the power and joy of picture-making. You become acquainted with important work by photographers and artists that have changed the landscape of photography over the last 50 years, and Todd reviews the core principles of photography to help you better understand how metering profoundly changes the mood and perceived content of a picture.

Join Todd for a week of travel through San Miguel’s plazas and markets, building experiences and gaining new skills in the art of seeing and picture-making.