This week as I was teaching there were a couple ways that photography struck me. The first was when I was happy and feeling successful as a teacher and the second was as I was frustrated and upset. In both cases though what struck me was that teaching is a hundred moments at a time, and in them regardless of the subject or the emotion that is rendered, there is beauty to be found because it is human. As we have looked at photography and different compelling pictures, whether they are happy (kissing soldier) or disturbing (war photos) there is something beautiful about them because they tell human stories. For me even the most beautiful and compelling scenery pictures aren't as compelling or beautiful as the ones that tell human stories. I suppose that I why I went into teaching, because children are beautiful. I need to explain how I describe beauty. In the book A River Runs Through It (NOT the movie although it was touched on in it) Reverend Maclain defines beauty in a non-superficial, and, with the risk of overusing this word, compelling...(I couldn't find the quote online, but will get the book when I get to my parents and post it when I get it)
The other way I was thinking about photography and the features which make a photo more or less compelling are similar to what makes lessons compelling. They need to be well framed, focused, elicit emotion and tell a story.
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