Our Photography Retreat and Our Future

We're very excited about moving forward with our project. This is not only the future home of our photography efforts, The Studio Q Retreat & Training Center but our future homestead. We will live here and work here. And we can't wait to make that happen. 

Most people don't realize that this has been a goal of ours (Jeanne and I) for many, many years. When we returned from Europe in 2011, we contemplated making the move to a homestead then, but we weren't quite ready yet. We've been planning, saving, sacrificing for this for many years. I've never felt more confident about something than I do for this. 

In the coming months, we will publish our vision for the Studio Q Creative Retreat with descriptions and curriculum on photography, blacksmithing and bladesmithing, homesteading, philosophy, food, meaning in life, and a lot more. Our slogan is, "Educating and Inspiring People to Find Meaning in Their Lives Through Art, Food, & Philosophy". Once you see the workshop(s)/curriculum, you'll understand what we mean with that phrase.

We plan to offer three retreats every year (June, August, and September). You'll be able to build your own curriculum from over 20 different workshops, and reset yourself in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado. We hope to offer these starting in June, 2021. 

Why are we doing this? We want freedom, privacy, and self-sufficiency. Most of all, we want to connect to nature. We want to get away from the chaos of urban and city life. We want quiet. We want peace. Just like everyone else, we're tired of the noise, traffic, jobs, and debt. We want to be free from all of that. We've worked hard and have sacrificed a lot to do this. And we appreciate all of the support we've had from people buying my books, attending a workshop, or spreading good words about Studio Q. Thank you, you've help make this happen for us. I have NO doubt, it's going to be the best move we've ever made. 

Stay tuned, you'll see an entire homestead built before your eyes! And we hope one day you can visit!

The future home of Studio Q Creative Retreat & Training Center
This is what December looks like in Central Colorado ;-) Our new driveway!
The entrance to our homestead.
This used to be the steepest park of our driveway - all reworked and ready for inspection.

My 100th Wet Plate Collodion Workshop

It's really amazing how fast time goes by. I taught my first workshop in 2004 (formally), and now, almost 12 years later, I just completed my 100th workshop - almost 1000 people - last weekend. 

I hope I get to teach 100 more! I posted this on Facebook:

A big shout out to the wonderful workshop students I had the pleasure of working with last weekend; Cyndi DiMicco, Tess Hamilton, and Tim Fry. A big thanks to Koko for modeling for us and to Summer Joy Jacobsonand Jeanne Howard Jacobson for the food, conversation and support. 

This was my 100th workshop - I couldn't have asked for a better group of artists/photographers. They all worked the magic we call wet plate collodion photography! 

Half Plate Tintype by Cyndi DiMicco - 28 June, 2015 - Wet Collodion Workshop Studio Q Photography- Denver, Colorado — in Aurora, Colorado. 

China Day 1 - November 25, 2014

Greetings,

Since ALL social media is banned here in China and I don't want to mess around with VPN software, we're going to send an email a day to the people on our "interested" list. If you do not want to receive these, please let me know and I'll take you off of the list. No problem.

In a word, China is amazing. I know it sounds trite and cliche but it's true. I would encourage anyone that's adventurous and can handle long hours in an airplane to visit. We are lucky, we have people here that are taking great care of us.

Above are some photos from today.

Quinn Jacobson - A Photographic Heritage

A documentary made by the very talented French artist, Benoît Boucherot. It's about some of my time in Europe - this is the story of how Centre Iris represented me. It shows some of my exhibition, portratis session work, and teaching in the studio in Paris - 2010 - 2012. 

The Studio Q Show - S01E02: The Silver Bath

This is the first (official) video for the show. It's on making and maintaining the silver bath. There's a lot more to come on the silver bath, at least two more videos, this video will get you started on the basics. It's 41 minutes long, grab a cup of coffee and check it out.

Thanks!