As I’ve said, I don’t look at my assignments in advance. But I cheated yesterday and peeked at today’s shoots. One looked challenging, a family that doesn’t celebrate Christmas. The hard part would be photographing the negative, something they DIDN’T do. Like a portrait of a guy who DOESN’T ride a bicycle.

My pre-visualizing on that one was all for nothing as the assignment was transfered to someone else. I talked to that photographer and he was a perplexed as I. “It’s not like they’re setting a Christmas tree on fire,” he said.

I walked into a hospital today and was told, “I thought you had some serious boundary issues.”

Ending the shift was high school basketball in a pleasantly bright gym. I decided to break from tradition and shoot from the stands with a 400mm lens.