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Photo 12
I visited my high school last week to see my photography teacher, Mr. Fruhling, one last time before he officially retired. It was early in the morning, since I had to head to UBC for classes later in the day, so the class was empty when I walked in. Seeing the tiny television, his ancient boom box, and especially the back board entirely covered with black and white photographs made me really… well, nostalgic.
Mr. Fruhling walked in wearing the silliest and brightest yellow hawaiian shirt, catching me by surprise almost as much as I surprised him by my visit. Obviously, he couldn’t wait to retire! Not much has changed with him, I thought. He’s still the same kooky and restless fine arts teacher, but one that genuinely cared for his students and hugely influenced my love for photography and my perspective of viewing the world.
And to think, it all began with that ironing board…
Series of Six
Model: Braden Staudacher
Alphabets
Lights Out
Steamy
Makin’ a latte.
Waiting
I took a photography class in Grade 11, and we used both film and digital cameras. Despite the technological advantages with digital cameras, I loved using film. This is a single bulb portrait of Natalie, a good friend of mine, using a film camera. She’s quite goofy, and not knowing how the pictures would turn out, I was surprised to find a serious looking picture of her after I developed the film. Sometimes, waiting to see the results make pictures that much more worthwhile.
Single-bulb portrait of Natalie S.
All good things come in threes
A couple of weeks ago, my German professor passed around a wooden basket filled with juicy mandarin oranges and explained that they had oranges left from a luncheon meeting earlier that day. The next class, they had another meeting and so she brought us oranges again. On the third class, yet again, I saw the basket being passed around again. But this time, she bought the oranges by herself to give to us. Why, you may ask? Because, she explained, “As they say in German, Aller guten Dinge sind drei!”. Such a sweet lady!
In keeping with the theme of three, here are three pictures from my trip to Europe in March 2009:
Silhouettes and bridges.
Venice, Italy.
On her way somewhere.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany.
Walking the dog.
Verona, Italy.
Picking out words
The real Spider Pig
Marge Simpson:
Honey, that’s great. But the very best thing is that he listens to you. Because nothing means more than for a man to… How did the pig tracks get on the ceiling?
