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Every day this week we’ve built caches and edited. We are now through these additional people:

Ikuru Kuwajima (this was a big one, felt good to get through!)
Kyle McDaniel
Sean McGann
Ben Reed
Julien Semanchuk
Karen Stockman

Ben had a lot of files, but he’s such a good shooter, I felt like I learned something by moving through his takes with him. He and Ikuru were fun to edit – such good vision, such a wide variety in each take. Makes me want to try harder. On the other end are the students who have blurry photos in bright daylight. I know my takes are far from perfect – in fact I struggle with flash very much. But looking through these takes has for me really exposed (no pun intended) a lack of technical proficiency. Sometimes there's such vision in these shots too! It's frustrating to see exactly what the photographer was going for, but never quite nail a sharp shot. We need advanced lighting 2! Ok, enough about that.

We also started looking through some of Zoe’s photography books for design inspiration. And we sat down and hashed out a list of words we associate with Arrow Rock. We’re trying to develop our theme. The ‘spine or backbone’ as it were, to bring me back to my biology days…It seems on the tip of our tongues. We’ve come up with some decent ones, but nothing that seems to hit on every major point yet. Either too focused on the history or too much on the personal, but what will blend that all together, in succinct and telling fashion?