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It's gotten busy again at the office, after a couple of moderately easy weeks. That's a good thing in the sense that I like to be busy, and one of the new projects is challenging and fun and within my area of expertise. The down side is that there's less creative time after 12+ hour days. My cameras don't get to come out to play very often.

I need to teach a photography workshop at the office sometime in April, and then repeat it for our Bay Area offices sometime after that. Someone noticed that some of our young engineers and scientists are more capable with a camera than others (was that stated diplomatically enough?) when doing project documentation or marketing shots. While I keep a little distance between my work and creative sides, it's no secret what else I do. So the request was made a while ago.

I've taught before, three times, full semester adult ed/college credit courses. But never on photography, and never in this sort of time constrained, here are the highlights of the basics kind of way. It will almost certainly be a good experience, though. Every other time I've done this it's forced me to organize and clarify my thinking, turn what I know semi-consciously into a series of talking points able to be understood by others, and research gaps in my knowledge, or places where I haven't kept up with the latest. So I'll probably start outlining this weekend, and then think about the details for a while.