89. People Watching

I have a great idea for a portrait series and I hope that nobody steals it. If I was really concerned I guess I wouldn't post it here but hopefully my ten readers aren't looking for any new photographic projects.

I love to people watch. People fascinate me. I was watching a video on Edward Steichen today and he was discussing his famous portrait of Greta Garbo. He stated something to the effect that it is not possible to make a perfect portrait of a person. People are so complex and have so many sides to them that one image can not capture it all.  It is nice to know that even a master needs more than one image to get it right.

I am a girl scout leader - I enjoy teaching young girls to be independent thinkers. Most the leaders I know see their troops through middle school and by the time the girls are about 13 they have moved onto to boys and fashion. Recently our service unit combine with another service unit and this other unit has a much stronger collaborative core. The parents (men and women) enjoy their participation in scouting so much that many have stayed in the organization long after their girls have grown. Ever since the first combined meeting of our units I have been obsessed with the idea of photographing leaders' portraits.

Katie decided to participate in the service unit encampment planning committee for girls and Remo is coming to lead a drum circle at the encampment next week. Have you ever been to a drum circle? It is a little too hippy for me... I am not sure I get it. Sure its fun for the first 5 or 10 minutes, but then I am bored with the experience. But tonight John from Remo came to "warm" the group up for the future drum circle. It was hard to be bored and drum when there was such fodder for photographs.