The minister and me

Well, not quite. He just finished seminary and is currently looking for his first church. Thus the putting up for sale of their home and my being dispatched thereto to take pictures. His office bookshelf being filled with books of commentary on the Bible and Christianity, and histories of the Bible and Christianity, and the meaning of evil, etc., I remarked to him and his wife that one of them must be a minister. They laughed and confirmed the above. This prompted me to ask him if he knew of a good book relating the history of the Bible itself, which in turn prompted two hours of discussion primarily centered on religion, but with related tangents into politics and anthropology. It was the most interesting and fun conversation I've had in a long time.

The job's going pretty well. Still can't seem to settle into a groove, what with tripods breaking and cameras breaking and rather random schedules, but I do feel a lot more comfortable with the photography itself now and am beginning to feel the comfortable feeling of old hat. I need that. Once we can get the other issues worked through, and more than anything find a way to streamline the post-photography work -- choosing and tweaking the photos and getting them e-mailed -- I'll be much happier. The main reason I haven't written here in so long is due almost solely to that post work. I'm either doing that when I could be writing here, or too sleepy to write after having done all that. (About the way I feel now, in fact.) If I can get all that finally smoothed out, it will be one of the best jobs I've had. If I can get all that finally worked out, I could even start writing spec material again, and learning the CGI that I've been meaning to pursue. Yes, I need to get all that figured out.