Using Your Artistic Sense for Better Images with Lemont Artists Guild

Hank Erdmann who will discuss using one’s human and artistic senses to make better photographs and also achieve greater creativity and creative composition in photography. Hank Erdmann is a photographer, photographic educator and writer who resides in Will County, Illinois. He has photographed throughout North America, making the Midwest his primary geographic area of interest. A love of history, especially the maritime history of the Great Lakes, kindles a special interest in the ports, shorelines, islands, hardwood forests, prairies and other natural areas of Lakes Michigan and Superior and their surrounding environs. 

Hank's images explore two main genres. He uses line, shape, form, color, pattern, texture and movement in nature to create images that come from his soul through his eyes. He tries to capture the feeling he has at the time of seeing something that makes him want to photograph it. He also enjoys making photographs of the natural world that go beyond the literal interpretation, in more artistic or abstract statements as he is inspired by the photographer Freeman Patterson’s concepts of Photo Impressionism. He is constantly expanding on the “art of fixing a shadow” with over forty years of photographic exploration.” Hank currently serves on the Board of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and exhibits and is a board member at Gallery Seven in Lockport, IL. See his photography at https://hankphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery-list

 Open to all; you don’t have to be a Lemont Artists Guild member.