glass of water, 480 seconds
Give me a camera and I'll take a picture of anything. Seriously. I think one of my best defining traits as a photographer is that I am just insatiably curious.
So, while waiting for brunch one day at the Pig 'N Pancake, I set my pinhole up on top of my glass of ice water, face down, and promptly exposed for the next eight minutes, the camera, not myself, Aaron.
Even though it looks like my camera is levitating above the glass, the entire frame is actually shot within the glass, hence why the grain of the wood table is distorted.
Anyway. Yeah.
I taught again today, and this seems to be the best way for me to recover, either taking more photos or posting one. Doing something creative to refill what I deplete teaching. Because I really do come out of these classes feeling depleted. I had a good group today and they all seemed to have a good time, so I am grateful for that, but goodness it is hard work and even more goodness I never feel satisfied with the job that I did. I guess part of it is that I set moderately unrealistic expectations for myself for each of these classes. I want all my students to rush right out as changed photographers, or with a fire lit under them. But I know this is not always the case, nonetheless, it doesn't keep me from expecting that of myself.
Thankfully I have a week until my next class starts. And I think these one day classes are actually the hardest to teach. It is supremely difficult to connect with so many complete strangers in such a short amount of time and then try to convey all the most important aspects of photography to them, to try to teach them in five hours what has taken me the better part of a decade to learn.
So I say, whew. And I go for a walk with a camera or go post a photo to Flickr, and that is how I recover and get ready for the next round.
glass of water, 480 seconds
Give me a camera and I'll take a picture of anything. Seriously. I think one of my best defining traits as a photographer is that I am just insatiably curious.
So, while waiting for brunch one day at the Pig 'N Pancake, I set my pinhole up on top of my glass of ice water, face down, and promptly exposed for the next eight minutes, the camera, not myself, Aaron.
Even though it looks like my camera is levitating above the glass, the entire frame is actually shot within the glass, hence why the grain of the wood table is distorted.
Anyway. Yeah.
I taught again today, and this seems to be the best way for me to recover, either taking more photos or posting one. Doing something creative to refill what I deplete teaching. Because I really do come out of these classes feeling depleted. I had a good group today and they all seemed to have a good time, so I am grateful for that, but goodness it is hard work and even more goodness I never feel satisfied with the job that I did. I guess part of it is that I set moderately unrealistic expectations for myself for each of these classes. I want all my students to rush right out as changed photographers, or with a fire lit under them. But I know this is not always the case, nonetheless, it doesn't keep me from expecting that of myself.
Thankfully I have a week until my next class starts. And I think these one day classes are actually the hardest to teach. It is supremely difficult to connect with so many complete strangers in such a short amount of time and then try to convey all the most important aspects of photography to them, to try to teach them in five hours what has taken me the better part of a decade to learn.
So I say, whew. And I go for a walk with a camera or go post a photo to Flickr, and that is how I recover and get ready for the next round.