Student #1 Callie Mitchell, 12/2010 
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Some snapshots from the first live-in-photo-boot-camp type of event I always wanted to put together but finally got the chance to. Callie Mitchell flew in from DC, spent four days, three nights living and breathing photography, visiting my artist friends, braving SFMOMA, shooting in the rain and occasionally playing the Wii with my kids during downtime. Picasso took cigarette breaks, ya know?
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What did we learn?
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Hmmm....well it is about the journey, not the end result. But just when I thought we may have pushed hard enough...or maybe too hard...we took a break and took a hike in the woods. Oxygen, redwoods, the wet and the scent of tree bark...all of that seemed to open our minds. There we found a moment of inspiration in the discovery of a discarded stuffed panda, soaking wet and buried beneath the leaves and rain. This was our muse and fueled the photography for that day, that night, and look...here we are, taking the panda home in a plastic bag to recreate our own reality in the studio that night...and waking up to shoot it under the natural light of the early morning before her plane takes off.
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What is the lesson?
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You never know where you will find inspiration.
Amen.
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Studio of Suzy Poling & Wesley Weaver, 12/2010
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SFMOMA, 12/2010
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Final Project 12/2010
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