For those that know me, they also know that I have a tendency to entertain moving into different fields.  This desire for change is probably an indication of deep seeded contentment issues but it is hard to say even with my vast depth of no psychological training.

My first foray into career exploration was looking into becoming a chef.  I enjoyed cooking and baking although I was admitedly not the worlds greatest master.  My thought was simple, go to school and gain a great skill to cook.  Seemed simple enough even though I will still simply exploring.  After interviewing with the Culinary Institute I was rejected because I didn’t know if I wanted to be a chef or not but I did know I wanted the training.

Moving ahead, I have recently taken up photography.  Personally, I enjoy it as it is a way to be a creative outlet.  Once again I wanted to try for some education in order to potentially get to a professional level.  The city has an art institute which has an excellent digital photography school.  Today to fill the time I called them up to arrange a tour.  The gentlemen was very polite and once again I was told that unless I really want to go full time into professional photography then the program wasn’t right.

During the conversation the term accreditation came up several times meaning all prereqs were required.  My question is simply at what point did education become so elitist?  Instead of allowing people to take classes to learn and expand it is required that you become a professional in the field.  It is quite sad that you cannot take classes just because you enjoy it.  Thank goodness we have community college who enjoy teaching not reputation.

For today’s image I have included a very interesting look at a chess piece.  One of the things I most love about photography is its limitless ability to make us see the same world we always in totally new ways.  From taking it all in from a landscape to focusing to a single object it is amazing how one point in time can mean so much.

So last year we tried the 30 day challenge.  I made it a whole 3 weeks then tripped at the finish line.  At the end of the day the total goal was to make $10 with a sales pitch online.  By the 3rd week most people had finished successfully making a zillion dollars where as I was just trying to get some visitors.

So for this little experiment I am going to attempt to simply post something each day.  The goal is for each post to be something substantial which means at least a few times you will see a post that consists of “This is my post”.  A for effort though.  The main theme of these posts will be a look into a month off for a workaholic like myself.

Now a week into my sabbatical and I have totally stopped being able to tell what day of the week it is.  This time lapse is probably due to the fact for 8 days every day is completely open.  Below is a picture that was taken at an bird sanctuary which has apparently reclassified donkeys as flying creatures.  Getting creative I took a wide angle show up close getting a fun big nose shot.