Last night I spent an hour and a half teaching my neighbors about photography. It was fun! I had walked out with my 300mm to see if I could shoot those damned white egrets that hang out in the creek, but they flew away as soon as they sensed my intent to allow light that had reflected off them to enter my ocular sensor orbs. Those buggers are timid! Anyway, a neighbor from a few doors down came out and mentioned he had just been talking about photography with someone. We ended up talking about what I was doing with my camera, and the camera he'd just bought. He expressed frustration at not knowing what most of the features were, and, long story short, I ended up teaching him and his wife about photography. Just the basics, really, but it was a lot of fun. That's the second time in the past couple months that I've done this. I ought to do it more often. And charge for it.
Unrelatedly, this trailer for Watchmen is quite intriguing. I doubt they can live up to the original graphic novel, but on its own it should be a good film.
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Hey John
Cool how things like that keep happening, the world needs your knowledge! I recommend signing up to teach one of those classes you see in the city's recreational magazine, they have everything from Learn how to use color in decorating to karate to glassblowing. You can charge a class fee, a materials fee, and have it begin in the classroom one day and the next week meet at some awesome photo place! (I think this was your idea though, a few months ago, but I just like it!)
You should try teaching photography to middle school students, like I do. It takes the first half of the semester to teach them how to turn the camera on and off and how to take a picture, but they're a pretty uncritical audience ;)
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