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I feel very compelled to say something here for the first time in a while, if only because I want to both give people an update on what's going on in my life as well as bring you up to date on my thoughts.
I feel so incredibly blessed all of the time, and yet I feel very empty. I have been like the boy from the Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, asking dozens of things from God everyday and only giving back in little ways while not even discussing things through with Him about life or just having a conversation through prayer. It's been very weird. When all God asks is for me to love him, I try to find a way to struggle through all of this crap on my own without asking for His help... and most of the time, it shows.
Having said that, I feel so incredibly blessed that I have been honored with an award tonight for best television news videographer in the school of journalism. Yes, it's just a faculty award, but it's an honor to me because I feel as though it's confirming what I thought could and would happen -- that my path would be down the road of videography. This is something I did not see coming at all, and it's something that I can't see myself doing for the rest of my life, either; however, it seems like the way to go here in Eugene, considering it is my forte and the thing I'm most confident in.
If you remember back to that image of Paul Turner in the Darkside Cinema news package, just fixing some film with a light shining into the frame, I can't explain how I shot that shot. It just happened. And maybe that's why I am slightly nervous about getting into the realm of photography. It's so unpredictable, and something always comes out of it that you never expected to see. It's definitely an exciting art form, but it's totally spontaneous and random, too. Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to (hopefully) getting a job here soon.
One paper to go and I'm officially Benjamin Thomas McKee, BA. A little scary, yes, but also a litlte exciting. I'm ready to really flex my muscles / feel what it's like to not have any set thing to do. As I was discussing with my GTF / TA / Friend Tad this afternoon, I somehow have a passion for just about everything in my major. It's a huge struggle to see myself counting myself out as a reporter every other day just because of the shit that happens over at KMTR, what with reporters being bogged down in stories or photographers having to shoot seven things in one day. But you know what? I trust that whatever path God takes me on, I will love it. And my bet is that, whether photography or reporting, I'm going to have a blast doing it and really move mountains while I'm in the employment pool.
But damn, how scary it is, with 9 days until I graduate, knowing that it's all coming to an end.
Thanks for always being here for me, folks.
I feel so incredibly blessed all of the time, and yet I feel very empty. I have been like the boy from the Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, asking dozens of things from God everyday and only giving back in little ways while not even discussing things through with Him about life or just having a conversation through prayer. It's been very weird. When all God asks is for me to love him, I try to find a way to struggle through all of this crap on my own without asking for His help... and most of the time, it shows.
Having said that, I feel so incredibly blessed that I have been honored with an award tonight for best television news videographer in the school of journalism. Yes, it's just a faculty award, but it's an honor to me because I feel as though it's confirming what I thought could and would happen -- that my path would be down the road of videography. This is something I did not see coming at all, and it's something that I can't see myself doing for the rest of my life, either; however, it seems like the way to go here in Eugene, considering it is my forte and the thing I'm most confident in.
If you remember back to that image of Paul Turner in the Darkside Cinema news package, just fixing some film with a light shining into the frame, I can't explain how I shot that shot. It just happened. And maybe that's why I am slightly nervous about getting into the realm of photography. It's so unpredictable, and something always comes out of it that you never expected to see. It's definitely an exciting art form, but it's totally spontaneous and random, too. Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to (hopefully) getting a job here soon.
One paper to go and I'm officially Benjamin Thomas McKee, BA. A little scary, yes, but also a litlte exciting. I'm ready to really flex my muscles / feel what it's like to not have any set thing to do. As I was discussing with my GTF / TA / Friend Tad this afternoon, I somehow have a passion for just about everything in my major. It's a huge struggle to see myself counting myself out as a reporter every other day just because of the shit that happens over at KMTR, what with reporters being bogged down in stories or photographers having to shoot seven things in one day. But you know what? I trust that whatever path God takes me on, I will love it. And my bet is that, whether photography or reporting, I'm going to have a blast doing it and really move mountains while I'm in the employment pool.
But damn, how scary it is, with 9 days until I graduate, knowing that it's all coming to an end.
Thanks for always being here for me, folks.