Kent Weakley: Do any of you recognize the name "Kent Weakley" as a photography instructor? I took a couple of courses with him in 2011 and 2012 - Blue Hour and Photoshop. Going through...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Do any of you recognize the name "Kent Weakley" as a photography instructor? I took a couple of courses with him in 2011 and 2012 - Blue Hour and Photoshop. Going through YouTube last night, I stopped to watch a wood turner, and he looked familiar. After some searching, I found that I was right; it was Kent Weakley. He has the same patient way of explaining what he's doing. His wood turning was more instruction that demonstration.

Everyone has more than one thing going on in his life, but photography and wood turning are not two activities that go naturally together. If you want instruction in photography or wood turning, Kent Weakley would be a good choice.

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

Jerry, very few of us 'hogs started out life in the working world (by *my* measurement, anyhow) as photographers. I mean, I'll craft a fair to middlin' image and maybe teach you how to do it, but I can also hang a bare, slab entry door in an existing opening and teach you how to do *that* too! And maybe instruct you on how to build a proper cabinet, drawers and whole kitchen besides, and construct the house around it!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

chasgroh wrote:

Jerry, very few of us 'hogs started out life in the working world (by *my* measurement, anyhow) as photographers. I mean, I'll craft a fair to middlin' image and maybe teach you how to do it, but I can also hang a bare, slab entry door in an existing opening and teach you how to do *that* too! And maybe instruct you on how to build a proper cabinet, drawers and whole kitchen besides, and construct the house around it!

Thanks, but no instruction needed in those areas. I've always looked at repairmen like this. When they show up, they will have two arms, two legs, and two hands - just like me.

dadbecker Loc: Richland, Wa

jerryc41 wrote:

Do any of you recognize the name "Kent Weakle... (show quote)

Jerry, I have seen many of Kent's videos and he is excellent at teaching. I do both woodturning and photography and have done so for many years. I find they are complementary. When it is too bad to go out and take pictures, I do woodworking.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

dadbecker wrote:

Jerry, I have seen many of Kent's videos and he is excellent at teaching. I do both woodturning and photography and have done so for many years. I find they are complementary. When it is too bad to go out and take pictures, I do woodworking.

delder Loc: Maryland

Photography and Woodwork BOTH incorporate ART and TECHNOLOGY in the production of a final result pleasing to the eye.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

delder wrote:

Photography and Woodwork BOTH incorporate ART and TECHNOLOGY in the production of a final result pleasing to the eye.

But one of them doesn't make a mess.

SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC

dadbecker wrote:

Jerry, I have seen many of Kent's videos and he is excellent at teaching. I do both woodturning and photography and have done so for many years. I find they are complementary. When it is too bad to go out and take pictures, I do woodworking.

Photography & Woodworking - - Me too! (you can also add ceramics to my list of interests. Nothing more satisfying than sitting down with a lump of damp clay and turning it into something useful &/or decorative)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

SteveFranz wrote:

Photography & Woodworking - - Me too! (you can also add ceramics to my list of interests. Nothing more satisfying than sitting down with a lump of damp clay and turning it into something useful &/or decorative)

I'm back and forth between the house and the garage now. I'm making an odd little travel ukulele.

delder Loc: Maryland

jerryc41 wrote:

But one of them doesn't make a mess.

Try doing film...

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

jerryc41 wrote:

But one of them doesn't make a mess.

Which one? LOL

SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC

delder wrote:

Try doing film...

I did film until 2009. I converted a spare bedroom into a darkroom. After our house fire in 2009 we changed the configuration of the room so it was not as easily convertible into a darkroom. At that point I went fully digital.

delder Loc: Maryland

I think film sort of left me @ the turn of this Century.
Still have my F4004, so I am thinking of trying another roll soon.

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

Thanks, but no instruction needed in those areas. I've always looked at repairmen like this. When they show up, they will have two arms, two legs, and two hands - just like me.

...haha, Jerry, the "you" is rhetorical, the point was skillset, not arms and legs and hands and you feeling inadaquate, lol...

dadbecker Loc: Richland, Wa

One makes a mess in the shop the other on my computer...both need cleanups.