The entire school went on a field trip a couple days ago. I forgot to post pictures. I decided to use my wide angle lens. It sometimes adds cool curvature and stretching to pictures.
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A story about a boy and his camera in Korea.
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WOW!! What a cool place! The kind that unlocks the imagination and opens a whole new world of adventures. I would have loved growing up playing at a place like that. As it was, every playground bridge between slides and tunnels became a rickety rope bridge hanging by a thread between two precipices over a seemingly bottomless gorge... with crocodiles in the river at the bottom. And the tunnels - secret passages. And what I could have done with those hillside rope climbing things... those would have become something really cool too... Fun times. Like the Lost Boys.
Sometimes little differences in your environment can make you feel like you are in another world.
I see those slides and the steps and I think, "Wow, they would never allow that here." Not that they shouldn't but people are so sue happy that some dumb kid would hurt themselves on that. Is it that we don't train our kids enough to be careful?
What kind of negative impact does that have on society? They learn not to take responsibility for their actions. "I walked into the middle of the street because I was on my phone but it was the car's fault for hitting me."
Great pictures as usual. Gloomy days are tough to get some good colors with but I really like the catapult kid!
funny that you should mention that, because that was my very thought when we first got there... "they don't make these in america anymore. it's all that plastic junk now."
a while back i read an article about how a lot of the youth in england had never climbed trees. people were worrying that parents were being too protective. they felt that because children were never allowed to be in "semi-dangerous" situations when they were young, that they wouldn't know how to cope with difficulties when they were adults.
i can't count the number of trees that have my name carved into them about 40 feet up. i'm not sure if climbing trees prepared me for life in any way, but i think it did encourage my sense of exploration and adventure as well as joy in nature.
tree climbing isn't for everyone, but i think that activities that involve some sort of risk are necessary for growing up. when i worked as a facilitator, that was my job... put people in difficult, challenging situations and watch them "stretch" and grow. i was there to quietly ensure safety, encouragement, and guiding words. it was one of the most rewarding jobs i've ever done.
yeah, i agree, gloomy days suck for pictures, usually. this day at the park actually had to be cut short because it started to rain.
I wish I could go back in time and be at the age of those kids again. So I can have fun 24/7 with almost no worries.
i know what you mean. now that i'm older, i look back and see that my family was very poor and had it fairly rough when i was a kid. i never knew it though. like you said... i had no worries.
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