Julieanne Kost is the Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist for Adobe Corporation. This position requires quite a bit of travel from her each year. As she flies from city to city, she takes photos from her window seat on the plane. It is from this vantage point that Window Seat was born.
Window Seat is loosely divided into three sections, each with a lot of photos. The first section, "The Art of Creative Thinking", begins with 18 rules to the art of creative thinking. Some of the rules are common sense ones such as "Master your Tools", which instructs that you must understand the tools that you need and gain a degree of mastery of them. Some of them are more philosophic such as "Listen to what your life is trying to tell you." This came to her after perusing a career in psychology and athletics, she found herself being drawn down other paths; she eventually found herself working for Adobe and taking pictures. Most of these rules are from lessons learned over time.
Although these insights may not provide an instant epiphany, they do provide a basis for taking your awareness of what you want to do to a new level. It may provide a perspective on how one person works and has success with her photography.
The second section, "Window Seat", is the main section. It is Kost's portfolio of window seat photography. She does not describe the digital or Photoshop techniques that she uses, she does, through a series of chapters, give a loose workflow on how she came about working with this project and the taking of her pictures.
Some of the chapters are "Desperately Seeking Creativity," which describes how and why she began shooting these pictures, "Control" in which she tells how she has to deal with the lack of control that one has on a plane, and "Editing," where Kost describes how she reviews and print her images.
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