PEAK DESIGN: Black Friday Up to 25% off thru Monday!

Black Friday Sale Details Thursday Nov. 23rd through Monday Nov. 27th 25% off all Everyday Messengers 15% off all Clips, Straps, Pouches, Accessories 10% off other Everyday BagsSHOP NOW

BLACK FRIDAY: 50% Off Think Tank Photo!

Get a great Black Friday deal in our Outlet Center with savings of up to 50% off! Special pricing on the Retrospective Leather shoulder bags, Lily Deanne shoulder bags, Perception backpacks, and more. Supply is limited, so act fast! Click Here. Retrospective® Leather Series Retrospective® Sandstone Series Perception Series Lily Deanne® Series OUTLET CENTER We need to make room in our warehouse for next year’s products, so we’re offering special reduced pricing on many of last year’s favorites. Open box, promo and discounted products May or may not have original tags Limited quantities Comes with full Think Tank warranty EVERYTHING MUST GO!

Peak Design's 5-day Kickstarter is coming to an end

Peak Design's 5-day Kickstarter is coming to an end so I'm helping them get the word out one final time. As a reminder, you can use my affiliate link below.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peak-design/1567916997?ref=9t517z

Peak Design's 5-day Kickstarter is coming to an end so I'm helping them get the word out one final time. As a reminder, you can use my affiliate link below.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peak-design/1567916997?ref=9t517z Heidi is our in-house General Counsel, and she's got pipes galore. When she started this photo shoot her shirt had sleeves. But the sun was out, and well, you know the expression. She's modeling our new Slide Lite strap in Ash.

Leica Lounge with Silvia Lizama | Thurs, Nov 9, 2017 | 7pm - 8:30pm

Free Event

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Join us in the Leica Lounge on Thursday, November 9, 2017 with fine art photographer Silvia Lizama. Silvia will give a presentation showing how a lifetime of influences has impacted her image making process. She will show different bodies of work, talk about the inspirations behind the work and finally give brief presentation on how she hand colors her black and white photographs.

The Leica Lounge is a lecture series hosted by Leica Store Miami which features presentations by local photographers, editors, gallerists and educators. Held monthly, these free events are designed to create and inspire the local photography community through sharing images and exchanging ideas.

The Leica Lounge is kindly sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery. Participants will be able to sample some of their amazing craft beers during the event. Brooklyn Brewery is one of the largest craft breweries in the United States, producing a portfolio of traditional and experimental beers sure to impress any beer drinker.

About Silvia:

Silvia Lizama was born in Cuba and moved to South Florida in 1960. She received her BFA degree from Barry University where she is now Chair of the Department of Fine Arts and her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Having exhibited locally since 1978, her work has gained national and international attention and has been included in prestigious exhibitions and collections. She has been awarded the Southern Arts Federation/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Grant (1993), as well as the South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant in 1992 and 2015.

Artist Statement:

Our daily lives are full of stress, anxiety and pressure. There’s never enough time to do the things we must do, much less time to do the things we would like to do. How often do we take a moment, to really look around, to see what’s in front of us, to see what’s in the shadows; to see the special places. Sometimes I do take the time. Sometimes I push everything else away and just look. Sometimes I’m even lucky enough to have my camera with me.

I have been photographing my world for over 40 years. I have been fortunate throughout my life time to have been able to travel to exotic places in Latin America and Europe, as well as my own neighborhood, capturing images with my camera along the way.

My images were captured in black and white film using a medium format camera or more recently digitally captured and printed in a traditional darkroom using gelatin silver paper. After printing the images I hand colored the surface with photographic oils. The carefully applied coloring makes each image unique, adds to the fictional quality and hopefully makes real the world I witness.

Click here to see more of Silvia's work.

Visualize and be Ready Before the Moment

Thursday night I had the honor of being inducted in the Immaculata La Salle High School

Sports Hall of Fame. I was the special teams captain with football players mostly bigger than me.

After a 1975 LaSalle vs. Belen football game, a Miami News sports story quoted our team's quarterback, Bill StPierre, as saying “visualizing changes reactions into reflexes and helps to do things quicker and better.”

Visualizing is a technique I use every day as a photojournalist. Just like I would anticipate the ball carriers movements for a tackle back in the 70’s. Today, visualizing helps me prepare and be ready before the moment. I visualize and place myself in a position to capture the light, the emotion, the movement and composition all colliding in a split second for the decisive moment to tell a compelling story in a single photograph.

In the article Bill describes this technique and what is happening in my head for the last 40 + years, "like a moving picture in slow motion.”

We learned to visualize from our football coaches Carmen Grosso, Denise Hackett and Van Parsons at practice everyday,

I’m forever grateful for what I learned on the football field and how ILS prepared me for success in life.