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Day 75 of 366 ( year 2 )
If you keep doing what you have always been doing
then you'll always keep getting what you've always been getting
Being in a different environment than one is used to can be uneasy, but at some point you just have to let go.
Lessons of Love
He always slept
With one eye open
Now he watches
Silently
From a distance
As those he loves
Lay him to rest
Ever the guardian
He watches wistfully
Near angels wings
As his family fulfills
His lessons of love
He remembers
Watching them grow
Learning their smarts
Hoping he had not
Raised any ‘dumb kids’
They remember
His undying love
His quiet strength
Encased inside a gentle
Proud Irish, heart
And I, I shall remember
A man of steady convictions
Coming home from work
Watching the news
Reading the paper, cocktails served
As dinner is prepared
For his family, with grace
And now he watches from above
As taps are played and eyes
Fill with tears of memories
Well learned
To a father’s love
They will no, nay, never,
Forget
- T.G. Friel
Sam burned the crap out of his back. See that line up there? I was spreading aloe on his back and said "What's that line from?" and then it dawned on me that's where he could reach with sunscreen himself.
Swimming Lessons (July, 2001)
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Date:2001/07/01 13:16:59
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"What are you trying to prove?" is a perfectly good question. From the first time I discovered a hobby – really any activity beyond killing time and having fun – I knew that there was nothing casual in me. Starting around the time I turned ten, I got obsessed with a series of creative things that I picked up and dropped in succession. First it was drawing, then building a city of Lego, before I finally moved on to 3D animation. That last activity filled my entire twelfth year, spending afternoons for weeks on end, telling frame-by-frame stories on the screen. But all those activities failed at something I didn't know I was craving – getting out my secret thoughts and feelings. I was old enough to create something coherent, but far from aware of why I had the need to do it. I slowly got sick of the timesink of making movies on the computer, before turning thirteen with the usual distractions that brings. For the next few years, I got passive inspiration from music and movies, mediums that said what I was feeling, when I rarely spoke for myself. It was hard enough to handle my emotions without gathering them up to share.
The day after my eighteenth birthday, I wrote a poem. Just a throwaway thought, marking a line in a life that seemed so far insignificant. I'd been down so long that it didn't seem hopeful, and I had no real intention of pursuing poetry further. I only wrote two more that year, but felt the urge to scribble twenty-eight poems the next. That number seemed to steadily double – and by the year I was twenty, I was writing well over a hundred between birthdays. I'd slowly stumbled into something I'd been missing all those years earlier, a driving force to give meaning to the technical exercise. While I worked out the ways of pulling words together, I had a reason pushing me on. I'd had a fairly friendless childhood, a thousand sleepless nights, countless walks in the woods with nothing but thoughts for company. They were dim pits finally proving mines to pull from, gold in them there silver linings. Even now, I'm drawing mainly from my lessons of isolation. So what am I trying to prove, anyway? Mainly that I was meant to exist, and this anxious drive to work unrelenting can be directed in a way that's deserving. I'm grateful to you for letting me do it.
April 6, 2022
Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
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I reshot this teaching about using the exposure compensation
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"Lessons from Tragedy: A Conversation on School Safety and Preparedness" was held March 1, 2017, and featured the retired principal of Columbine High School and a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting who then created a national support foundation.
Pictured are Frank DeAngelis, a national-level speaker for Safe and Sound Schools, and Kristina Anderson, founder of the Koshka Foundation for Safe Schools and one of the most critically injured survivors from the 2007 Virginia Tech tragedy.
The lecture was sponsored by the Cutler Public Justice Fund, endowed by David Cutler '74.
Speed (or lack of it) is everything in this sort of exercise. I tied down my impatience tight for these but don't know if I can stand to work this slowly too often. Anyone have views on how often to exercise one's hand-eye this way?
Christmas tree in local museum, used w/c pencil then paint, love the intense colors with this technique.
For the past few years, I have been absolutely obsessed with National Geographic (the channel and the magazine) as well as the Discovery Channel. Watching "Planet Earth"; on Sunday nights two years ago, when the BBC nature documentary series first aired on the Discovery Channel, changed my life. I love nature, and I love animals even more. I stare at National Geographic pictures for hours, wondering how in the world the photographer was so lucky to have captured such a unique, powerful, natural and inspiring photograph. Every photographer in these nature documents as well as the cameramen for nature documentaries has inspired me for this assignment. I have read and watched hundreds of documentaries in my life. I reviewed many of them as study material for my project.
Instantly upon taking this class I knew I wanted to do my final project on nature or animals. I wanted to capture the world's natural beauty and in an ideal world I would have gone on some African safari photographing the wild animals at play or unique scuba diving trip, taking beautiful pictures under water. Unfortunately, I do not have that opportunity right now, and living in NYC I was bummed by the fact that even shooting nature can be difficult in such a concrete world. After much deliberation I decided to take a trip to the Bronx Zoo (not expecting too much because how could a good zoo be in the middle of a city). To my surprise, the Bronx Zoo was fantastic and absolutely huge and is now one of the scenes for my final project. I planned to shoot pictures of different animals in what I feel like is the closest opportunity I have right now to capturing them in their natural environment. Zoos are not about containing animals and holding them captured, it's about protecting wild animals, many of which are endanger or cannot survive in the wild on their own. A zoo is also about education, it is a place where people of all ages can learn about and see other species.
Throughout my experience shooting my final I have decided that animals are VERY tough subjects. A lot of people take pictures of animals at the zoo but I was looking for more then just the standard shot. I wanted angles, details, and special moments that are often hard to capture in a moving animal. These animals are wild, they do not listen to your commands, they do not wait and hold their poses for you, they just roam around, doing whatever they please so it takes a lot of time and effort to get that perfect shot. It also takes fast reaction time, something that took me a long time to master. I think that with the monkey, if you zoom in closely you can see the actual drops of water coming out of his mouth after drinking. It was the perfect moment. Or the snow leopard licking his lips or the seal coming out of the water, they all took precision and timing.
Overall, my audience is everyone who loves animals, ranging from kids to adults. I want to capture special moments with the animals like a monkey taking a drink, a seal splashing in the water, or a lion yawning. These pictures could be in any type of print ranging from the National Geographic, to a zoo pamphlet, to a children's book and so on. I have really enjoyed my final project, although difficult to shoot, animals are beautiful photography subjects.
Jo - Assistant Gardener at National Trust Uppark House and Garden showing volunteer Kate (student at Sparsholt) the ropes in our Mottisfont Greenhouse here at Torberry. www.alitex.co.uk/
Coach Geno Auriemma works with guard Diana Taurasi during USA practice on Wednesday. Photo by Jacob Corrigan.
1 Chalk pastels--a little too pretty in yellows, so I added a layer of dark grey on top
2.Iridescent bronze paint--this is pretty weird in person, shining with an eerie glow, might be useful for vintage Halloween ghosts
3. Gesso followed by sepia watercolor pencil--this was great for making things look scruffy and it goes well with the image.