The Why

The BTS "Why I take online photography creative classes" - because it is the match.com for creatives. My "real life" friends (RLF), while they get and support me, are not the type who sigh when they see a beautiful photo or frantically dig in their purses for their phones to snap a quick pic or will only buy a purse if the Sony a55 fits comfortably inside .  I love them all, and couldn't live without them, but I play-play-play online.

My "Oh, I get it" story:  Three years ago, I decided, rather than try to bake cookies, nuts, bread, etc. for our holiday exchange I would take a photo, photoshop it up for the holidays and frame it for my friends.  After Christmas, I received wonderful thank you notes for the lovely frames.

This cracked me up, gosh did I laugh! They all were so sweet and a bit mortified when I later told them that the gift was the photo already in the frame.  In a way, it was kinda nice because they thought my little photo was the one that was in all the picture frames at Target.  It was really sweet, seeing the world through their eyes.  It still makes me smile.