With so many stories to tell, telling the story of your zip code seemed like a good place to start.
When was the last time you took a casual stroll through your home, yard, neighborhood or town with your camera in hand looking for things to photograph?
It’s surprising how many things you find that capture your attention.
What does your zip code tell you about that place and area you call home? The numbers included in my zip code do nothing for me … but when I consider all of the images of this place known by those numbers I can see the beauty. Let’s capture the beauty of those five numbers that define that area you call home.
For me it’s open fields and old rustic buildings, vineyards, grasses blowing in the breeze.
What is it for you?
City lights, streets lined with cars, highways, sky scrapers?
A quiet neighborhood, mailboxes, playgrounds, schools?
We all live in such different surroundings. It’s going to be great fun capturing our zip code!
If you haven’t yet, sign up today! And if you have, the introduction is available below and the first of your lessons will be available on May 3rd.
Once you sign up for the course you have 12 months to access it!
Bonus: Presets and a free course at the end.
I am from Pacific Grove, California – a small town right on the ocean shores of the Monterey Bay Peninsula. My Instagram name is heather94happy. It’s love it if you’d stop by my page and say hello and maybe follow my page, too !!!! Please let me know if you’re taking the “capture your zip code” online course, too ☺️☺️☺️
Hi Heather! Welcome to the course! We’re practically neighbors! 🙂 I’m looking forward to seeing your images and getting to know you more!
Where do I go if I have questions? I just read through and took notes on the first part of this week’s lesson. I guess what I’m wanting to know is how many days do I focus on those things before I move on to the second part of the lesson for this week? ☺️❤️🙌🏼📸📸📸📸🌊🌊🌊
Hi Heather. Comments can be left on each lesson and topic now. 🙂 I fixed it.
Hi Carolyn, I’m so happy to be in your course! I love your photography and look forward to sharing where I live, which is so very different than where you live, with you and all participants. It will be interesting to see where each person lives and also to see the “treasures” inside their homes. Whoever has an Instagram feed should post their name, so we can all follow along. I can be found at @doodlebug_designz. I hope to see all of your fabulous photos too. Thanks!!
Hi Debra. I’m so glad you’re taking it as well. And I agree, it will be fun to see where each of us lives and treasures in our homes.
Hi everyone. Looking forward to participating in this class. Especially now, we can embrace the beauty around us. Having a photo adventure where we are and sharing it is just what we need.
Hi Anita. Welcome! Especially now is so right! I’m so glad you’re here. Don’t forget to share your Instagram account so everyone can follow you there. 😉
Hi Anita, it sure will be fun! Nice to meet you.
I’m happy to be here & getting to know others will be fun. I need a fresh way to find the beauty around me. I live between city limits in Ventura County California, our town is called Santa Rosa Valley. It’s near the Ronald Reagan Library. I can be found at IG @vintagetreasures.giardino. Looking forward to seeing what everyone captures & shares.
Welcome Pamela! It’s so good to have you here. We’re not too far from one another. Well, at least not states away. Looking forward to time with you here and your images.
Hi everyone! I’m so excited to be doing something creative. I love photography and have been following Carolyn and her beautiful work for probably a year. My IG is @ginamarisayoga. I look forward to connecting and seeing your work!
Hi Gina … welcome! Thank you so much! I’m so glad you’re here with us. I too am looking forward to seeing your work.
Hi, I’m Tina from Virginia. I’m not a professional photographer, I just like taking photos of my everyday and all the things I love. I’m excited about this class, sharing my home with you, and getting to know each of you. You can find me on Instagram @fowlertb.
Hi Tina. Welcome! Thanks for joining in on the fun! It’s great having you here.
Hi everyone! My name is Claire and I live just outside of Asheville, NC. We live in such a beautiful place and I thought this course would be perfect to capture some of the surrounding beauty. I’ve had some experience with photography in the past as a food blogger. However, I’ve never been trained in it and I’m excited to learn more!
Hi I am Darlene and I am in Fort Mill SC
I am a photographer of musicians, flowers, my life, Nature……. honestly I photograph whatever catches my eye. I am a TNBC warrior working on book about myb10 year journey so this is a nice creative break for me. I love @sixteenmilesout photography
My Instagram is @photosbydarlenecunnup
Looking forward to this course and seeing everyone’s photos
Hi Darlene! Welcome! South Carolina sounds like it would be an amazing place to live! I’m like you and photograph everything that catches my eye. Wow! Congratulations to you! What a journey! I’m so glad you get a break. Thank you! Looking forward to seeing your work! And so glad you’re in the course!
Hello everyone! My name is Eleni and I live in Jamaica NY. My Instagram is gkbluestocking and I look forward to posting some creative pics of the place I call home.
Hi Eleni … and welcome! I’m so glad you’re here and am looking forward to seeing your photos! It’s such a great way to get to know people and to see different places through someone’s eye.
Hi Carolyn and everyone else taking the Capturing Your Zip Code class! My name is Donna. I introduced myself and my reasons for choosing this class on my IG account. Please stop by and pay me a visit and I’d love if anyone wants to follow me @_wildstrawberry_ and I’ll do the same. I’m looking forward to seeing images from everyone’s unique locations. Carolyn, thanks for all the inspiration and being willing to share your knowledge!
Kindly,
Donna 🍓✨
Hi Donna! Welcome! I’ve been enjoying your posts on Instagram! Your home looks beautiful and comfy too!
Hi Everyone – I’m excited to be a part of this course although I’ll be renaming it to “Capturing Your Postal Code” – it’s a Canadian thing, eh. 😀 I’d love to have you follow me on Instagram @roscodosco and I look forward to seeing your creations each week. I live about an hour north of the Canada/US border (International Peace Gardens crossing) and spend my summers on the edge of Riding Mountain National Park, another hour north. Due to Covid, I’m living at the cottage most of the time now, in a bubble of two, with my husband. I just finished the Still Waters Journey with Carolyn and ended up with a great portfolio of still life images. It was a fair exchange for not being able to go to Mexico for the winter as I usually do. Thanks for all your advice and assistance in that journey, Carolyn. This course is going to be fun!
Thanks so much Darlene! I’ve been loving your images so far and your great captions that tell so much more of your story. What a journey we’ve all been on! 🙂
Hello Carolyn. I would like to gift this course to my sister. We would both love your feedback on our posts. How can I buy a class for her?
Hi Eleni. That’s great! I’ll email you.
Hi Carolyn, I’m so glad that you came up with this class! I live in a small rural town in southeastern Virginia called Windsor. I’m excited to share this part of the world as I love seeing the farms with different crops ready to harvest. I think it’s because both sets of my grandparents were farmers. My handle on IG is @faithisrising.
This is just great Sherri! I’m really so glad that you enjoyed it so much! It really is one of my favorites! 🙂