Afternoon of Art

Friday marked my third year of teaching a little class at the local elementary school's Afternoon of Art. They bring in local artists of all varieties to teach the students their trade or hobby for an afternoon. I've enjoyed teaching the photography class for the past three years. I had a great group of 20 some kids for the class. After going over some tips and tricks we took a photo tour of the school using the tips. Torrey was my lovely assistant for the class, and Emma enjoyed visiting with friends and taking a class herself. 

Standing on Washington State in Washington State

On my tummy, in the driveway, in the rain 
capturing the ripples of the raindrops from heaven

"And indeed this is the last and not the least gracious of the casual works of magic wrought by rain: that while it decreases light, yet it doubles it. If it dims the sky, it brightens the earth. It gives the roads (to the sympathetic eye) something of the beauty of Venice. Shallow lakes of water reiterate every detail of earth and sky; we dwell in a double universe. Sometimes walking upon bare and lustrous pavements, wet under numerous lamps, a man seems a black blot on all that golden looking-glass, and could fancy he was flying in a yellow sky. But wherever trees and towns hang head downwards in a pigmy puddle, the sense of Celestial topsy-turvydom is the same. This bright, wet, dazzling confusion of shape and shadow, of reality and reflection, will appeal strongly to any one with the transcendental instinct about this dreamy and dual life of ours. It will always give a man the strange sense of looking down at the skies."-G.K. Chesterton