list no. 46 : what i learned this past weekend

1. I took a 3 day intensive photography workshop this weekend that was more about writing than shooting.
2. And talking. There was a lot of talking.
3. Our teacher, a woman whose work I've followed for some time and I admire quite a lot, (ok, I crush on her a little), was amazing. 
4. She was open and encouraging and she didn't coddle any of us. 
5. In fact, she pushed me hard enough that I decided I wasn't going back on Sunday, "I don't work like that...' my declaration and decision.
6. But I did. And that's when I saw that I can in fact, work exactly in the fashion we learnt in the workshop.
7. Another fact: the whole process is quite simple. 
8. A voice and vision will be found if one is willing to do the work.
9. It most likely won't be easy, and if it is, than it probably wasn't excavated from any depth.
10. The question I keep asking myself, the one that was presented in the opening moments last Friday night: are you taking interesting pictures, or taking pictures of interesting things?