Those who know me, know that I dislike being in the middle of large groups of people engaged in mindless small talk. That’s the major reason why I don’t photograph weddings – they drive me around the bend. I just spent three days surrounded by 500 people and I can’t tell you how good it felt to spend the morning picking berries with the girls and cooking a dinner for everybody afterwards. I will say that some aspects of the last three days were fun, but I desperately needed my alone time. It will take me a week to recover from this.
On that note, here is an essay by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic that some time ago caused a bit of controversy: Caring for Your Introvert.
The photo is from Change Islands. Local residents and visitors are watching the Great Fogo Island Punt Race from the government wharf earlier this month.The race is not just a tourist attraction, but also an important part in preserving the local knowledge and tradition of wooden boat building.
Croatian word of the day: borovnica blueberry [boro vni tza]
A few weeks ago, I lucked out and was able to photograph a little bit of The Great Fogo Island Punt Race – a 10 mile rowing race from Fogo to Change Islands and back. The rowers use traditional and locally built boats called punts. A cranky punt is a fast, but more difficult boat to handle and, when the punts were fishing vessels, having a cranky boat was not a good thing. Things have changed. Bellow is a trailer for a locally produced documentary Cranky. And the photo is of two boys on the government wharf in Change Islands where they were watching and very seriously discussing the race.
