In the spring of 2013 I heard about a photography workshop series lead by the The Legacy Project team at the OC Great Parks. I was able to attend two of the 5 classes, and a couple of my images were included in the gallery exhibit entitled A Different Point of View. (Post about last year’s event.)

​A few weeks ago I found out that another three part series was offered at the Great Park. Although I couldn’t attend the first part, I very excitedly signed up for the other two classes. The first one was lead by Jacques Garnier, who explored the peaks and valleys of the creative spirit. The workshop was more of a conversation than a lecture, and participants explored different ideas of how to overcome the ‘blank page’ syndrome, or the ‘photographers’ block’. Ironically, one of Jacques’ great ideas was to switch lenses for some new point of view. Just days prior to the workshop I purchased a fish-eye lens, and I was looking forward to trying it out at the airbase location we were going to see. This day we visited the Raider Country former hangar, which is partially occupied by a recycling company. We were able to explore the left side of this building, at least a few rooms in it.The place is a photographer’s paradise – it hasn’t been cleaned for many years, possibly over a decade. For a person like me, who likes to record messages from the past, this was a place hard to leave. I mostly used my new fish-eye lens, and I feel, that I captured some important elements of the deteriorating building and its history. I’ve created a thematic entitled A Decade of Decay, which portrays rooms from the above mentioned building, and a few images from another abandoned building.

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