High School... once again.

The first day of high school at Volcano Vista where only the freshmen are attending this year. Different teachers had different approaches to the first day of school, as can be seen below. The Biology teacher in the first photo had the kids participating in a name game and laughing the whole time. The PE teacher in the second photo gave the class the drill on how to line up in alphabetical order for roll call then filed the kids back to the classroom to wait for the bell to ring.

First day

This time I was NOT mistaken for a high schooler. But all the same I blended in pretty easily I'll admit it. From what I saw high school hasn't changed much. There were a few students already pushing the dress code to see how much they could get away with. There were the late lost students and then the students who weren't lost but still late to class anyway. Some things don't change. Also it's a challenge to shoot the first day of school and "be sure not to show anyone's face prominently because they don't have their photo releases yet."

First day of the internship!

It's the last day of January and finally the paperwork for my job is mostly done. But today I had my first assignment. (I work the Wednesday-Sunday shift, so technically I started Monday but my first two days I had off.)

So back to this first day. One assignment, a ride-along and a feature hunt to please non-photo editors that didn't like any of the other 3 features turned in. Then on top of this, the feature hunt was called off by the time I got out to the empty park so I sat on a bench for five minutes to feel the warmth of the sunset on my face. Apparently an editor had been convinced to use one of the 3 features as the local centerpiece. Ah the work place. But all in all that was my day thus far and I'll post the photo once it runs. I got to use my new AlienBees and some gridspots, I'll say that. :)

I spent my "day off" on Monday at the Magic Kingdom with friends as a final farewell to the simple life and one last time to be a kid before having a steady 2-11pm job five days a week. It was fun and I got to play MORE with my new point and shoot digital camera that I got for my birthday. The camera is a Canon Powershot SD800IS. It is awesome. As far as point and shoots go this is definitely the way to go.