hi! i haven't posted in quite a while, things have been kinda wild here. this'll be quick, but it's funny to think on...
you know i've been so excited about the middle schoolers in photography club, right? i thought we would take pictures for this magazine... and we had such a great lesson on mary ellen mark last week, and on photo composition basics too. and then i gave them an assignment that i thought could have some cool results: to try to compose good pictures within the confines of their kitchen. they had to email me their top 3 shots.
and i've been so excited to get the photos. and oh yes i've been receiving them. ....and oh yes, these are the "most challenged" (middle school speech) pictures you have ever seen. they are the fuzziest, most lacking-in-composition you could really imagine anyone taking while stuck in a kitchen. pictures of your empty dining room table, from a good 8-feet away. a cabinet. a counter-top with nothing on it. there are no colors, no shapes, no people in their pics -
agh! i wasn't expecting things to be so grim!! i wish i could show you - these photos would make you smile, they are so strangely bad. and they keep showing up in my inbox, one submission even less focused - so to speak - than the next. the bright side, dave reminds me, is there is A LOT to be taught and learned.
