Creativity Bootcamp Day 7 - Fly

Today I decided to continue with yesterday's assignment of trying something new and outside of my comfort zone - capturing an action shot.  The best of the lot is both the idea of and features my SIL - a talented dancer.  Thanks to her mad leaping skills I managed to capture her in motion (and with her eyes open and a smile on her face even.)

Earlier today I joined my family in a trap shooting adventure -  I snapped hundreds of photos attempting to get a photo of the clay pigeon just as someone shot it.  This doesn't make for very exciting or interesting photos - but it was a fun challenge and it stretched my abilities with my camera.  I managed to capture several just as the clay pigeon shattered but only one in the instant the bullet hit it.  I actually found trying to capture a photo of this more difficult that actually hitting one of the clay pigeons.

A pretty obvious choice for today's song, Tom Petty's "Learning to Fly."  I've felt like this entire Bootcamp week has been me learning to fly - even on those days when I feel like I'm doing it without wings - and then being surprised that I can do it anyway.

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A Commuter

I'm at the end of my second full day in Lexington and I am loving it.  Work is an exciting challenge, the people are great and I'm excited to start exploring this great part of the country.  However, before I can do that, I need to find an apartment, which is my task for the long weekend.

As I drove to work this morning I realized how odd it felt to be a commuter and I realized it had been 10 years since I last made the daily drive for a job.  In Delhi we have a car and driver who gets us to work.  In Brazil I occasionally used taxis, but mostly caught a ride with my good friends L&M.  While I lived in Seattle I took the bus to work and when I lived in Salt Lake I lived across the street from work and walked.  Which means the only other time in my professional life that I've been an actual commuter was while I lived in Dallas. 

Lucky for me (and my rusty commuting skills) it only takes about 20 minutes to get to the office and since I'm headed against traffic there is little congestion.  Luckily 3 things here are making commuting fun - my cool Dodge Avenger rental car, the Sirius radio that was included with the car and the lovely GPS that Santa brought which keeps me from getting hopelessly lost.

I heard one of my favorite road trip songs in the car today, Tom Petty's "Free Falling."  This song and an open road is my ideal way to start a vacation.

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