A good teacher is always teaching

A few weeks ago, we took the big family vacation to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We stayed in a pair of houses at one of our favorite spots there, St. Martin’s Point. This year, we were pleased to be able to have a bunch of people with us, including Jenny’s parents and two of her sisters, and my sister Marissa and her boyfriend Jack.

The photo above is of a teacher (my Dad) doing what he does best. Here, he is teaching Jack about tripod use with video cameras. I’ve been spoiled to have a Dad like him. For as long as I can remember, he’s been teaching me stuff. He’s the one who got me interested in electronics and radio stuff, photography, sound stuff, computers, and more. He still teaches me stuff now. Before everyone and their uncle had a SLR, he recognized that I was out of options with the point-and-shoot compact that I had, and he taught me how to use his not-quite-ancient-yet Pentax SLR. It was like a whole new world opened up, and I could do things I had only read about in books. From there it was just an outward trajectory, as he taught me more and I grew more.

Now I think it’s time for me to pass-on some of what he taught me long ago. To that end, I’m going to start putting together some podcasts on SLR use and techniques. If there are specific topics that you’d like me to cover, drop me a line on here or via email and I’ll see if I can add them.  In the meantime, stay tuned for an outline that will show the topics I plan to cover in the various episodes.

Here’s hoping I can be at least a little bit of the teacher that my Dad is.