School days...

Tomorrow I start to embark on a new adventure of teaching a photography class to students at Open University entitled Portrait Photography. I've taught some other classes such as life drawing and introductory art classes (to the complete newcomer), but never a full on photography class. It will be rather interesting as I go through the motions of teaching, discussing and sharing ideas with students that are equally eager to learn how to photograph. I guess my inner concerns is whether I will be good enough to teach them anything or will they lose interest? I think that perhaps if I sat in a room filled with a few photographers, I'd certainly have my OWN way of photographing a subject/person, that would be vastly different than the guy/girl next to me. That is the beauty of it all. Someone once asked me if there would ever be a time when pencil drawing would ever become obsolete (as my pencil drawings are not your ordinary graphite work). To that, I asked the young gentleman how many songs could one compose with the piano. I think he got the message. So to tomorrow, after all my preparation and investigating, I leave it up to Universe to determine which way the winds will blow.