“Work the shot,”
experienced photographers say
So I stand at a distance
move closer
back off
move closer
sidestep to the right
then the left
like someone doing a country line dance
I crouch half way
then take the position of a toad
maybe a snake’s eye view will do the trick
Looking for that ‘thing’
that no one else has seen
quite this way
My first day of AWP was exhausting! My two morning panels were excellent – one on writing personal essays in the age of the internet and the second on turning adversity into art. After that it was all tripe. My friend and I didn’t stay for the keynote speaker as that event didn’t start until 8:30 PM and ran until 10:00. Who planned this? Are they completely and utterly mad? Do they not know that I go to bed by 9:00?
I appear to have hundreds of emails in my inbox attempting to respond to this question: What happens next? Answers range from what steps a company is taking to protect their customers from COVID-19, what online services are available to replace in-person services, and how what happens next depends on my actions, therefore I should…
I came home from work yesterday and crumbled into a boneless heap. So I’ll have to share the story I was going to create about Wild Women (yesterday’s post) tomorrow. (I’m being optimistic that today will be a better day)
Don’t let your goal of telling a story mean that you are buried in a notebook, computer, or camera. Don’t let telling a story blind you from living the story. Be sure to spend as much time looking for real instead of through the lens of your creation…
Last Saturday, I went with some friends to the Autumn Brew Review, put on by the MN Craft Brewer’s Guild. Basically, you pay a fee to get into the event and are handed a small glass to go around and sample beers brought by 80 brewers. There was a large variety of beers (over 250…
Like I said in my last post, Sue, Lynn and I are all taking a little different spin on what we want to accomplish in our November novel writing adventure. As I understand it, and I’m sure they’ll correct me if I get it wrong, Lynn wants to get as much written as possible but…
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I do this too….see something that grabs me and take a few shots and then move around it looking for another perspective.
I had to smile, Maery, finding myself to be the toad as well as the snake at times, participating in the dance and working hard while trying to see that spectacular something. Funny thing, that photographing… 🙂