Ellen Anon
Ellen Anon is a freelance photographer and writer who specializes in expressive photography. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and while practicing as a psychologist, began working part-time in photography co-leading workshops, writing articles, editing and authoring books, and gradually evolved into a full-time professional photographer in the mid-1990s.
Ellen’s images, based on nature, are sometimes realistic and sometimes abstract but always designed to elicit emotional reactions from the viewer. Her goal is to go beyond the ordinary in ways that hopefully stimulate others to pause and appreciate some of the beauty and wonder of our earth in a way that balances some of the stress of everyday life. Ellen’s images are included in collections in several countries and her photos have been showcased in galleries, used in numerous publications (including Sierra Club's "Mother Earth" and Inner Reflections calendars), as well as stock. She also had winning and commended images in international contests including BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Windland Rice Nature's Best Competitions.
Ellen is one of the co-authors of the highly acclaimed book, “See It; Photographic Composition Using Visual Intensity” (Focal Press, 2012) as well as the “Photoshop for Nature Photographers; A Workshop in a Book,” series (Sybex, 2010) and “Aperture 3; Portable Genius” (Wiley, 2012) all written with my son, Josh Anon. Ellen lead photographic and post-processing-oriented workshops and is a featured speaker at various events. She also create video training materials. She is an active member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and is very honored to be on the SanDisk Extreme Team.
Class 1
Secret ingredients of Lightbox and Black Cloth Photography
all the details you need to know to be successful with photographing flowers and other objects on a lightbox or black cloth
Class 2:
Maintaining Motivation and Creativity In Your Photography
This talk will be about maintaining motivation and creativity with your photography even when forced to stay closer to home than usual. Ellen will be focusing on a variety of strategies and approaches to help you maintain your mojo when it seems to be dwindling whether due to the pandemic or just life. She’ll also include a variety of potential techniques for photographing the same subject, that range from literal to quite abstract. Although Ellen has been using flowers as subjects, these techniques can be used with a wide variety of subject matter indoors or outdoors depending on your own interests. The talk will cover both photographic techniques as well as ways to set the stage to keep you excited with your photography. Ellen hopes that after the talk you’ll be wanting to pick up your camera
