The School Play
March 22, 2008
March is Shakespeare time at the boys’ school. Days of memorizing lines, sewing costumes, building sets. It’s really fun watching my kids quote from The Tempest or MacBeth.
But being the photographer dad isn’t always as fun. I’ve taken photographs of these plays over the past couple of years and never really got anything I liked, let alone anything I wanted to share with the other kids’ parents. It’s always very dark and more than anything I’m wanting to watch rather than photograph. Then I’m faced with the dilemma of getting a good shot of every single kid. It’s impossible.
I was faced with that dilemma again this year as I sat in the front row before the 6th grade production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. How was I going to make meaningful photographs of this play, in this dark classroom, with a cast of thirteen kids coming and going?
Some other parents walked into the room, looked around and said, “Wow, look at the set. How beautiful!”
That’s when the lightbulb went on and I knew exactly how I wanted to photograph the play. Here is the result:
As always with my composites, I wish you could see the 13×30 inch print sitting on my desk right now. Way better than the 550 pixel version.
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That’s so great. Those kids don’t know how lucky they are. David Hockney would be proud.
That is really sweet. You could always sell prints and sell them as a school fund raiser.
Love It!!!!