u/doctorboredom

Anyone else noticing tons of Tesla Cybercabs driving around. Are they being trained right now? Are they autonomous cabs yet? I keep forgetting to look if they have steering wheels or not.

I am a teacher and part of my job requirement is to take photographs of our program. I need to document what we do, whether that is visiting a museum, putting on a Halloween carnival, or going on a camping trip.

As part of my job, I also sometimes compile slideshows of our students through the years for a graduation event.

I am beginning to learn that I have mostly been taking photos from the mindset of photojournalism. I just naturally tried to take a photo of an event without becoming a force that disrupts the socializing that happens.

As a photographer, I love the challenge of capturing a photograph that reflects a thing happening in a particular moment.

But in hindsight, I am having significant second thoughts about this, because looking back, I think people actually wish they had more posed photos of themselves and tend to not necessarily like seeing themselves in candid shots. Or at least, it is extremely hard to predict which candid shots people will like.

So, if you are tasked with photographing events or schools or anything like that, how do you balance between documenting candid moments and being a posed portrait photographer?

Last night I attended an event where my son was playing in a rock band and I was struck by the fact that virtually all the girls were wearing loose fitting jeans or joggers. Me and another parent were laughing because the fashion reminded us so much of the 90s.

I teach at a pretty small middle school where there are very few social pressures and the kids tend to not even know current fashion trends, so kids wear whatever they want including leggings.

What is the current fashion status of Lululemon among high school girls, though? Is it a perennial clothing staple? Or are they associated with the 2010s and seen as out of style?

I am just sharing something that seems to have worked for me.

I had the classic problem where after uploading some photos, a chunk of them had the incorrect "taken" date. Instead of the correct date, their "taken" date was the upload date.

So, I mass selected them and then clicked on the "download" link in the interface.

After the images were downloaded to my computer, I backed out of the Gallery and then when I went back in, the images that were incorrectly sorted, were actually sorted correctly.

I did NOT need to re-upload the images. It appears that just performing the bulk download operation triggered a change in the EXIF data that then fixed the sorting of the photos.

In the fall of 1998, some German guys I worked with and a Ukrainian woman played a Euro dance song at work that had the line “Cool Cool Supercool”

I have never been able to figure out what song this was. It is very similar in style to Crank It Up by Scooter. It seems like the same sort of aggressive Euro dance music and my guess is it possible a German artist.

I basically heard it once and have never been able to find it since.

I have just been chastised by someone because I said I had a special understanding of some of the challenges kids face growing up with divorce.

I am nearing the 50th anniversary of my parents’ separation. In a group setting I said I have a lot of personal experience with the challenges of having divorced parents. This is an understatement to end all understatements. I have a deep nuanced understandings of the specific challenges a kid will face over their entire lifetime.

This parent interpreted this as me saying that divorce is bad and that women shouldn’t leave their spouses. She felt that me sharing that I understood challenges of divorced children was me saying single family households can’t raise children.

Basically she didn’t hear “this man is sympathetic to my kid” she heard “this man is shaming me.”

She then went on to say that her own kids don’t feel any challenges and they are happy about the divorce … because OF COURSE that is what they told their mom, AND they are only 14 years old.

It feels like not only is she not open to hearing about how her children might have basic challenges growing up with divorce but I feel like she is saying I should not share my own feelings on the subject because that will somehow make women feel shamed for leaving their abusive spouses?

I don’t know. It truly does feel sometimes like NOBODY wants to hear the opinions of children of divorced parents.

It just drives me crazy how some divorced parents can’t handle hearing ANYTHING that suggests that there are any negative consequences of a divorce.

There are always negative consequences.

Yes, there are also positives. But never be blind to specific negative consequences!