For many years Freeman Patterson has conducted several annual week-long workshops on photography
and visual design. Participants at these popular workshops have ranged from beginning amateurs to
advanced professionals. In Photographing the World Around You, his fourth instructional book,
Patterson conveys the flavour and intensity of the workshop experience.


CONTENTS

Preface

Learning to explore

The building blocks of visual design
Light: the raw material
Shape
Line
Texture
Perspective

Putting the building blocks together
Dominance Balance
Proportion
Rhythm

Evaluating your photographs

Assignments
People
Natural things
Human constructions and manufactured things

Making an album


COMMENTS
" This book is a workshop between covers. It's about learning to see and about using your camera
to record and interpret what you see wherever you are. It's about exploring what's around you
every day of your life." ... From the Preface

REVIEWS

"Freeman Patterson doesn't disappoint his legion of fans worldwide with his new book,
Photographing the World Around You. The key is the word workshop. Patterson's creative skills are
especially evident in the series of photographs he made of an abandoned town in South Africa. His
skill with words gives both the amateur and professional photographer many building blocks with
which to make better photographs, "learning to arrange shapes, lines, textures, and perspectives
in ways that produce clear visual documents, arouse emotions or convey ideas."... Bill Keay, Vancouver Weekend Sun

"Read Freeman Patterson's new book, Photographing the World Around You and not only will you
become a better photographer, you'll become a better human being. Patterson [is] an inspirational
writer who can stir the creative juices of even the most jaded photographer. His latest
instructional book is based on week-long photographic workshops he gives in New Brunswick
and ...South Africa." ... Montreal Gazette