Photo by cute girl with red scarf.Thousands of people stood in front of the Capitol's frozen reflecting pool on Monday, January 19th. 2009- handing off their cameras to strangers to get their 1/250th of a second that shows they were there, not somewhere else, during that very special week.
I went with several good friends. We all stayed at my house. None of us had press passes, just cameras and good shoes. A funny thing happened, we all seemed to come to this understanding that this is not an opportunity for great pictures, in fact, it does not even matter if we get any at all- we are just people, Americans, and we are here. If something happens, shoot it, but otherwise so what? It sure was something.
Back at school... its very hard. I just want to do the real thing now, no more of this "this needs to be done by next wednesday." Why does it need to be due? Its not going to be published anywhere, why not let us have more time and do a more complete piece instead of something that was just completed to make a deadline? I have no idea where photography will take me. I'm just a curious person that can see- I'd rather build homes and deliver packages than have photography be something that isn't right in my life. I'm not taking the classes I want to take and now its too late to switch majors- I'm ready to just graduate and hit the road.
