HW#1: Alternative assignments:

When Ibought my camera, I envisioned taking pictures of life and love and the joy of living. I want to go to Barrow and "shoot" a polar bear, somewhere around Fairbanks and "shoot" a grizzley bear, and then to the many islands of Alaska just to shoot scenes of the life abounding there. I have served in 42 countries as a United States Marine and could only hope to take now those photos of so much of the beauty I have seen in life that I now can only see in my mind. Whether it be Kabul, Afghanistan in 1956 or Ankara, Turkey in 1958 or even Tripoli, Libya or the Azores Islands earlier in 1956, there is so much that I remember but will never see again because that moment when I saw it many many years ago will never come again. I remember a train wreck outside of Severn, Maryland in early 1956 in which me and my Marine companions were not killed as many other people were. There were 15 of us 19, 20 and 21 year old Marine Sergeants on our way to many many different parts of the world from Beirut, Lebanon to Haifa, Israel or Moscow, Russia, or even to Paris, France or Addis Abba, Ethiopia; 15 of us to 15 different locations and yet each of us went to all the locations and none of us died that day when our train was the only train car that did not overturn in the crash. What a memory that is of what a joy it was to see all 15 of us alive and yet such a tragedy to see so many of other human beings not alive as we helped pull them out of the damaged cars bogged down in the swamps below the tracks.

This should be a USMC physical fitness training photo: http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/images/pfp.jpg,

and this should be the name of a photographer I like:

Heather Taggard at: http://www.myspace.com/tundrablues