Student, napping, in class.
OK, it was after school. This is a great kid. Involved in everything. Student government, athletics, you name it. Excels in academics. And he's just truly nice and polite and intellectually inquisitive and well-rounded and broad-minded and a gentleman. A gem. He was wiped out. How cute is that?
Sunset tonight. The sky was expansive, blue, lightly cloud-strewn today. The mountains were broad, awash in snow and whiteness, and utterly clear. Yesterday's steady breeze cleansed the air of smog, and it was one of those days that reminds you why the settlers moved here in the first place.
Moi. Psychotic indeed. It's what grading stacks of high school sophomore essays will do to you. Ha!
6 comments:
Wow, three photos on one day!
I really like the feet coming out of the cushions of the student, even without the background story, it would be an interesting shot.
The swept look of the sunset sky is wonderful, I like too the palm tree silhouette, given where I live - I always get a little thrill when I see one of those in a picture.
and self portraits are just plain cool!
I'm so glad you commented over on my blog, because now I know about your blog! I've just spent my free period reading your archives -- not grading as I should have been, but that probably wasn't going to happen anyway on a Friday -- and I think you're my blogger soulmate. I'm so pleased to have found you and will now be a regular reader.
gawdess - i seem to suffer from an inability to be brief or selective. :-) therefore, i post multiple pix. i just can't narrow it down to one some days. generally, i'm not a big fan of palms -- i call them toilet bowl brushes -- but they're always beautiful at sunrise/set. iconic, they are. and my two cents -- self-portaits are just plain scary, even innocuous ones.
what now -- thanks for commenting and reading up! i've been lurking over on yours for a while. isn't grading avoidance behavior fun? i've been planning to respond to your day-in-the-life post, but wanted to do it when i was more conscious and coherent than i've been this week. more later. :-)
I agree with Gawdess about self-portraits, but I don't think I've ever tried to take one during or immediately after grading a stack of essays. Grading is so draining.
Great sunset. I know the feeling in the self portrait- several more to go.
scriv - you and jo(e) are my standards. i aspire to be as comfortable taking open, daring photos of myself as you two are. i'm only just beginning the journey.
and yes, grading really and truly does just suck...the life and soul out of one. (to quote bart simpson, "i didn't think it was possible, but this both sucks and blows.") i'll admit my current stack is born equally by the demands of the job and my own proclivity toward procrastination. every year i hate myself for this.
lomagirl - thanks! and good luck on your own self-portrait journey. i'm right there with ya'. somehow it's always easier to take pictures of kids and cats. :-)
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