New day, new music. Enjoy everyone.
Saturday is always a challenge for me. Most of you probably don't know, but my weekends consist of almost nothing but work. This allows me to go to school during the week uninterrupted by a work schedule. Luckily, my awesome manager works incredibly well with my school schedule. My work shifts are usually Friday and Saturday from 12:00 to 10:00, and then Sunday from 2:00 to 7:00. Oddly enough, the Sunday shift always feels twice as long as the Friday shift.
Saturdays though, are strenuous. There is no sense of the first day back to work, nor the sense of the last day between me and four days of rest. Rather, it is the busiest day of my work week and often filled with difficult customers and mountains of unfinished work. Even so, I wouldn't change the decision I made to work there for anything. Despite it's setbacks, I love it there. I play with animals all day and some of my co-workers have become more like extensions of my family rather than just people I see once or twice a week.
Moving right along, I ended up staying up until almost four o'clock this morning. The time was completely unproductive, and all I had to show for it in the end was a terrible pit in my stomach this morning when I drug myself out of bed. Usually the shower is enough to perk me up, but today was a 'Starbucks and two energy drinks' kind of day.
I talked a lot about photography today with my usual source about, well, pretty much everything. Several more names have been added to my long list of "must see" photographers. When you look at their pictures it is very easy to see how digital photography has clearly pulled the art form further away from actual art. It is far to easy to take four hundred pictures of one thing and pick the one that happened to come out right. With film you are forced to take a step back and really think about how to take that picture. I am not quite at the point of forsaking digital photography or anything, but I can definitely understand now why everyone is telling me you need roots in film to truly see the world through a camera lens.
I looked at several hundred images last night, but one has really stuck with me. The photograph is by Sally Mann. Enjoy.
Great photograph. I don't know much about photography, but that picture really says a lot about what is going on.
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