Notes from aside the camera
Packed up the family for a short trip out of Athens and down to Augusta for a night. Plans were to do a little geocaching, a walk along the river and a visit to Fort Discovery. Didn’t get through everything, but did start building a visual journal along the way …
In case the plywood wasn’t enough to tip you off …
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(Updated Below) This week, the Grady College of Journalism and Macc Communication at the University of Georgia is hosting 65 college students for the Management Seminar for College Newspaper Editors. Some 64 schools are represented, from Florida to Alaska.
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While waiting to pick something up, I glanced down and thought I saw a glaucoma cereal. Maybe I need something for my eyes …
Adding a photo now …
Shot somewhere over the Carolinas Saturday morning as I returned from Virginia. At some points, the clouds looked like they’d been laid out on a grid.
Just back in from a training workshop for the Mass Communicators on board the USS Carl Vinson. (“Mass Communicators” is the new designation for photo mates and other journalists in the Navy. Even the military is accepting convergence.)
One of the public affairs officers for the ship is a friend of mine and he asked me to come up and present a series of talks on photojournalism, page design and what all this “new media” stuff means. Additionally, five members of his staff were included in some hands-on editing and storyboarding sessions.
This fall will mark the start of my fourth year teaching here in Georgia. Including my time in Syracuse, I’ve been in front of students for five and a half years now – which is exactly half as much time as I spent as a “professional.” That’s a little weird.
Again. I don’t think I’ve spent more than 10 consecutive days at home this summer, but I’m down to the final three trips – Massachusetts, then Virginia and then West Virginia. Hopefully, the posting will pickup after that.
Meantime, we’re up north for the youngest brother’s wedding. After the rehearsal dinner, we took a short walk around Plymouth, down by the Mayflower II (which I think I last saw about 25 years ago). Sun was setting and the light raked across the shutters shielding the waiting to board area.
We took a short trip to the other side of Atlanta for the Fourth of July. See some friends, eat some fried stuff, blow up a few things. We decided against the post-sunset, crowd fueled public display of fireworks due to some people having imminent meltdowns. Still, the street festival was entertaining.
We’ve been doing a lot of renovation preparation around the house. What that means is we decided to redo the floors in our living room And, once we started looking at floors, expanded it to a short hallway and then the dining room. And while we had repainted the living room and hallway when we moved in last year, we had done nothing with the dining room. (Well, aside from buying a really funky dining room set with pumpkin orange leather chairs.)