Meta-Aside: Added search to the footer on every page. Cool.
Just had five rolls of film developed, one from my cousin David’s wedding, and 4 from my step-sister Sandra’s wedding. I’m quite proud of myself. A lot of the pictures are good. Two areas where I’ve traditionally been weak, people and light, came out quite well. Lotsa room for improvement, but a glimmer of hope along two otherwise dull axes. My goal is to use time when I’m watching football to get picture related stuff done.
At squares last night, I purposely danced a square with seven phantoms. Though I picked the strongest possible dancer as my shadow, I rarely relied on him to figure out my location. Most of the time my eyes were closed anyway. I only messed up once. The important part though, is that I was able to fully visualize the formation around me for most of the tip. In my opinion, my visualization skills, or lack thereof, has been the main impediment to my learning of squares. I’d be able to learn quicker, and be a stronger dancer at all levels were my visualization skills on par with the other ones that I use in squares. It’s cool that I’m making progress, and improving a skill I’ve known I’ve had issues with since I was about 8.
I’m chuffed. Two visual things coming together.