Picture Me: NAKED

Okay, so I am currently enrolled in an Introductory Photography Class. I thought, what the heck, I like taking pictures, let me pay someone to show me the "proper" way to take a picture. Yes, there is actually a "right" way to take pictures, no bull. I learned how to develop my film and actually go to the darkroom and enlarge my photos on my camera. While learning the do's and don'ts of the darkroom, our Professor tells a story about a student he had in his class. One day, he decides to walk in the darkroom and sees a stack of pictures of people naked, and getting very familiar with each other. By familiar, I mean familiar familiar. Donkey and naive woman in Mexico familiar. Drunken bar night familiar. They were bumping uglies with one another! The first thought that popped in my head was how can someone be in the same room while people are having sex? How can they even take pictures of the whole ordeal? I don't even want to be in the same room when I'm having sex! Is anything sacred anymore? Is it?

He asked the girl why she took the pictures, and she said she wanted to show something like love or lust, I don't know it was something in that nature. It's okay to show two people together, hugging or two or three people having a quick feel up or under the sweater action, but actual penetration? What the hell? I do consider myself a "with it" kind a person and I believe in "expressing yourself", but there are classy ways of doing it. He then gave us a rule: Don't take pictures you wouldn't show to your Grandma. NICE!

New Thing

So I finally decided to do something I thought I would never thought I would do. Something that has always crossed my mind, but was too scared to do. Yes, my friends, I am going to start blogging. Hopefully this is as fun as I think it is, and if not, there's always Facebook.