Day 3 - The Start of an Obsession

Day 3 of NaBloPoMo. I think Dave may have been right, I am not sure I can post once a day for a month. I just do not have that much going on in my life that other people would want to read about, and since I have been instructed to include more words on the blog just adding pictures might not quiet the critics. Since nothing new is happening how about a story from the past that I talked about a year ago in my first entry.

I had never really had any interest in photography until I started High School and had to take an elective. One of the possible classes was Black & White Photography. It sounded a lot better then most of the other electives. I ended up really enjoying the class. We were first taught how to develop film and then taught how to print the photos. I did not have a camera of my own yet so I borrowed my Mom's 35mm camera which was already rather old and outdated. The teacher gave us all of the assignments at the beginning of the class and would give you more film when ever you needed some. I ended up finishing all of the assignments within a few weeks and then was just printing pictures for fun and helping other people in the darkroom. I really had a lot of fun helping out my classmates and now that I think back on it this may have been the first time that I ever really thought about becoming a teacher (as you know I did not, another story for later maybe). I really had a lot of fun with the class, unfortunately I never got to take the advanced photo class that was offered. A few years ago I looked back at the photos that I took and developed in this class. I quickly realized how bad they really were, at the time I thought they were good and I remember getting a pretty good grade in the class. I sure would like to think that the photos have gotten better since then! I still have all of those pictures in an album, I may have to take some time to scan them on a day off just to prove that practice does make better (I would not call my photos perfect by any stretch of the imagination).