1. For our photo stroll today, Russell and I went to the Asian Celebration. When I take pictures, I like to feel like I've learned about or become a part of the things I photograph. It's why I keep going back to Delta Ponds. I learn more. It's why I'll often wait a while when I'm in a certain setting before I begin to take pictures. It's why, I think, my pictures got steadily better as I spent more time in D.C. and NYC. If I don't start to feel some connection or some familiarity with what I take pictures of, my pictures feel too much like a tourist's pictures (not that there's anything wrong with that) and I'd like to take pictures that rise out of my growing familiarity. All this is to say that I was out of my element at the Asian Celebration. I saw beautiful dances and other performers, but I didn't know how to see pictures. Not yet. Maybe I would after a handful of Asian Celebrations. But, I did see people, people holding hands, learning, expressing joy, admiring what they were experiencing, rolling a cigarette, and that's what I focused on in the few pictures I snapped. Here's the guy rolling a cigarette out in front of the Events Center:
2. The Deke and I find it very relaxing to go sit at the bar at Billy Mac's and have a drink or two (or three), shoot the breeze with John and Derrick and Cathy, and watch t.v. and listen to KZEL-FM. So we did that tonight.
3. We also watched the Ducks men's basketball team eke out an OT win against the Cougars. I kept thinking, but I might be wrong, that both teams would have benefited from having someone who could hit the 12-15 footer off a screen. I'm partial to the 12-15 footer along the baseline. It was my favorite shot. But, why not the banker from 12-15 like Sid Wickes, Larry Bird, and Bill Walton all used to hit? Didn't Bernard King used to hit this shot? Is the mid-range jumper just too bland, not flashy enough, not worthy of highlight film to bother with?
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