Get Active

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
~ Socrates

 

If exercise were a pill we’d prescribe it to every patient.

~ Dr. Ralph Yates

Laughing in the Library

At the library to pick up an eagerly awaited book and as I start to pull it from the shelf I realize this feels very familiar.

And it was and is and laughter starts to burble up. It’s just like a composition book used in grade school. This is a book to use for your daily writing and drawing and whatevering. It encourages you to not get too serious. It encourages happiness much more than a Moleskine or an Artists Sketchbook.

Some of them, like mine shown here, only have lines on the bottom half of the page to encourage you to draw.

Lynda Barry must be a great teacher she starts with the fundamentals.

A portfolio by different photographers

I’m taking an online photography class Traveling Light. The instructor recently observed.

As for personal style while cultural/visual differences are certainly a big part of what makes travel exciting, if we focus solely on these external differences when we shoot, our photography can tend to look more cliched and random a portfolio that appears to be shot by many different photographers.

The phrase a portfolio that appears to be shot by many different photographers keeps echoing through my thoughts. Indeed as I review my collections of photographs with one exception they do have that appearance. Rather than being a flow of visual thought, the images are groups of non-sequiturs.

It’s time for reflection.

Beach, La Manga, Spain
Reflecting in La Manga