Spring 2017

Quite a few years ago I taught a class in photography. Not that I have any great expertise, but I did own a 35mm camera and I did have quite a few years of darkroom experience developing and printing my own pictures, both in black and white and color. And it was an introductory class: the students were my children and several of their friends from the neighborhood. We covered the basics, and the kids took pictures and developed the negatives and made prints. It was fun. One of my favorite parts of the class was a discussion we had on the important “parts” of a picture. The kids took pleasure in the idea that what is not in a picture could be as vital as what was. My favorite picture from assignment to illustrate this concept was a photo of a vase with some flower stalks, much like the one shown here, though in black and white. Spring 2017.