Monthly Archives: February 2012

So last month I was invited to my oldest daughter’s school, St. James Elementary, to present at her Career Day.  I was going to do it last year but I ended up with the flu and was quarantined for 5 days (yuck!  So this year I was determined not to get sick so that I could go and talk to all these 1st graders about my job as a professional photographer.

I was so ridiculously nervous (I am REALLY not good in front of a crowd) about my presentation.  I had to do a 20 minute presentation to 5 different classes.  Sounds easy enough but for those that know me when I start talking about photography I have a tendency to get very technical, which I figured if I did get technical I would totally loose a bunch of 1st graders  So I put together a slideshow and brought my cameras to show them.

The presentation was more of a hit than I ever imagined!  I even had other teachers coming in to see the slideshow because they heard the kids oooh-ing and ahhh-ing.  Mostly the kids were grosing out over the kissing pictures that I had in the slideshow.  It was really funny  I did have 1 class of kindergartners that looked a little lost during my presentation – it’s amazing the difference in comprehension between kindergarten & 1st grade.

I had the BEST time doing the presentation.  It was so great to see the kids get excited about my job and maybe I even inspired a few to maybe one day become a photographer.

A few days afterwards Alexis brought home some thank you notes that some of the kids had written to say thank you for coming to their class.  Some of the things they said were so sweet – some were really funny.  I just had to share some of them:

and you know I had to post the one my daughter Alexis wrote.  Love you Lexie