In week three in my Lensbaby workshop we learn all about movement. Very few things in this world aren't moving. When they aren't, you usually are. The slightest movement will change your focus. Here are my tips and tricks on photographing movement.

This month is all about seeing life in a new way. A few of us here at Gather Academy joined together to show you how we used our OMNI filters and shot through them, just for a little fun. This blog post is packed full of our tips and tricks.

One of the greatest joys I experience as a teacher is watching my students take the concepts I teach and make them their own. Nina is an amazing photographer and her flower images are truly beautiful, but her street photos are brilliant.

We are four photographers who came together to share with you how we used colored gels to create emotion in our images. Although we may all have a different approach, our mission is the same. Emotion, Emotion, Emotion!

Shooting through the days when we are uninspired as a homeschooling parent and a photographer. I know this can be difficult and oh so frustrating. I'm a veteran homeschooling Mom, I get it. I just purchased my oldest cap and gown for his high school graduation.

I have a love-hate relationship with prompts and challenges. On the one hand, a theme or topic nudges me to think about something I might not have considered and sometimes leads me to create when I might not otherwise. On the other hand, prompts can generate distraction and send my mind into a tailspin.

Read on as Craig Strong and Keri Friedman share their knowledge and answer our questions about how Lensbaby University started, find out who inspires them and listen to advice on how to grow as a photographer. Thank you so much Craig and Keri for sharing with us a little bit about yourselves and these wonderful lenses

As 2019 comes to a close, we thought we’d take a moment to look back on the work that has come out of Gather Academy in the last twelve months. Much of it has been an invisible type of work: building a learning platform and putting systems in place to help things run smoothly, writing new workshops and thinking about the best ways to deliver content to our community

We recently had the privilege of chatting with photographer, Gather Academy instructor, and human extraordinaire, Laurence Boswell. We’re excited to be able to share part of our conversation with you here. Laurence’s workshop, Finding Your Voice and Learning to Use It, begins January 27, 2020, and is now open for registration

I don’t know for sure, but I suspect “does not work well with others,” was a common theme on my childhood school reports. I’ve always been an independent thinker, not much of a rule follower, and generally the type who values time alone. I process information slowly, can be stubborn and scatterbrained, and I’m paralyzed by the possibility of conflict. You could say it’s taken longer than normal for me to learn the choreography of collaboration.

I believe that virtually anyone who has the ambition to create beautiful and unique art can use Lensbaby products to produce visually stunning pictures with relative ease. One of the many unique looks you can achieve with Lensbabys is making miniature style images. Here are six simple tips that I would like to share with you to create a tilt-shift miniature look.

One of most successful online photographic competitions at the moment is Child Photo Competition. It has grown so much in such a short space of time, from an idea in someones head to one of the worlds most recognized international competitions. It is so popular it can even help photographers to launch their careers.We reached out to the creator of this amazing platform, because we wanted to know more. Please meet Milica Tepavac.

Creativity seems to come and go. There will be moments where all my creative juices are flowing and an explosion of artwork takes over my social media

Marie Denise Villers was a French portrait painter, born in Paris. Villers was born into an accomplished artistic family, and was a student of the French painter Girodet. She first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1799.