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When I was eleven years old, my grandparents took my cousin Lily
(also eleven at the time) and I on a tour of Washington DC. The
trip was fantastic and I've lots of lasting memories of it, but
one thing they did has stayed with me: they requested that we
each maintain journals of the trip. This way I get to remember
everything as I felt at the time! My cousin Lily sent me a
journal for my sixteenth birthday - just as I was preparing to
travel to Israel for the first time and I've kept one, in one form or another, ever since. Granted, there are often long gaps
between entries, but I try...
For my Bar Mitzvah, my cousin David gave me a Pentax K1000.
I learned (or tried to learn) the art of photography on that
camera and it spoiled me. I gained an appreciation for film
which stopped me from taking pictures for a long time. This is
because I fell in love with the capablities of film using a
manual camera, but being a minimalist, I never wanted to carry a
capable one with me. Also being a bit of a perfectionist, I
wasn't willing to carry something inferior either.
Then came digital cameras. They keep getting smaller and smaller
while the quality keeps getting better and better. And there are
no inconvenient photos to carry around - I can put them on the
web! I've grown to like my Canon Digital ELPH S110. Sure it's
automatic (though you can approximate timed exposures at night
by turning off the flash) and the picture quality isn't as high
as that of film, but it's perfect for the web! And with
iPhoto managing and preparing them for display is simple.
So now I've documented many of my experiences either on paper,
on film or digitally and I'm going to try to share some of them
here on the web. In these pages you'll find records of
family, miscellaneous events and whatnot and my summer at Camp Tel Yehudah. Once I started working on my Statement of Purpose
for my Graduate School applications to Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation at Syracuse University and
Teacher's College at Columbia, I started maintaining and
electronic journal. I am using LiveJournal to maintain it
online as a blog.
If you're interested in what I've got scheduled for the future
so far, take a look at my schedule.
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