Killing Two Birds with One Stone

I actually don't even know why it sounds so funny and gruesome, but that's beside the point for this point.

Usually, I wouldn't count taking pictures and photography as "a bird" (to be killed, so actually the title doesn't work too well), but what I really meant to say was that I really love it when teachers give students the option to include whatever they want into a project/presentation. For me this usually is the artistic and the creative portion of the project. I like to do this because I just want to break the mold of the cliche stand up with a board and talk kind of presentation.

The project I wanted to talk about here today was a French project - something I haven't exactly grown to love but I made the choice to take it next year. For this particular project, we were supposed to re-enact a scene in a horror movie - either one of a movie or a made up one. Of course, there were the drama girls, and the super smart french guys, and they all had their ideas but photography just flew into my head. I could work on improving my photography (specifically with models) and processing while finishing a French project.

We did the shoot yesterday, and I loved it. Not so much the fact that our parents let us shoot in the middle of a school week, but the fact that we just got to go out in the nice weather and have fun and learn more about photography was phenomenal. I've always wanted to include photography in my school work and I guess I finally did it.

I kind of rambled on and I'll apologize, but I guess another point of this post would be - never hesitate to incorporate something you love into schoolwork. I know sometimes school is one thing at the bottom and the thing you love might be at the top, and it just cant go together. But don't forget that school is also a place to relax, have fun, while learning.