Shortly after the pandemic started, I started the Photo Therapy Facebook Group - a private group where photographers could post their images and share their stories, which is good photo therapy.
Within about two months we had 2,000+ members, and we are growing day by day. The images are amazing, inspiring, and motivating.
We have awesome moderators: Alec Arons, Linda Marshall, Juan Pons, and Jim Griggs.
If you’d like to join the group, or if you are new to the group, here is some info that will help you get the most out of your membership.
Description:
- A place to get motivated and stay inspired.
- A place to share your thoughts and ideas on the power of pictures - and what your photography means to you.
- A place to grow as a photographer by understanding what your photography means to you.
- A place with no political posts!
To become a member, you must answer the Group questions and follow the Group rules. When inviting friends, please pass along that important info.
When you post an image, please be sure to add a Topic after you post your image. You need to be on your computer or iPad). Just click on edit and you will see Add a Topic as an option.
Adding a Topic will help other find similar images - and help us find your images for our Happy Hour/Review Sessions. Read on.
Each Thursday at 5 PM Eastern we have a one-hour Happy Hour/Photo Review session - LIVE on our Group page (and posted the next day on our YouTube channel). Each week we have a different Topic. The LIVE event is a wonderful place to comment on the images we review and to learn. Juan Pons and I are the reviewers, and Alec Arons is our moderator. Comments are posted on our Facebook Group page, not on our YouTube page.
And each Monday we have a Monday Meditation guided by Linda Marshall and produced by Alec Arons.
Each Wednesday we choose a member’s photo for our banner photo. We choose the photo based on subject matter - and how it will looked cropped. We have many wonderful images that would be ruined if we crop them . . . so please keep this in mind when you see the image.
I came up with the idea for the Photo Therapy Facebook Group after writing my book, Photo Therapy Motivation and Wisdom. This book, my 40th, has no photographs (unlike my other 39 books). I wrote the book because knowing why you take pictures, and understanding the psychology of photography, is the key to becoming a good photographer.
Take good care, and please stay safe!
Rick
P.S. So something good was born out of bad times. Something else came out of stressful times: my 41 book, Photo Quest - discovering your photographic and artistic voice, was released in May 2020, when thing were very bad in New York, where I live. This book, like Photo Therapy, has only words - not only my words, but words of wisdom from 33 of today’s top photographers. If you are searching for your “voice,” you have come to the right place.