Going Dutch Blog

(Emily Naff) As I prepare for the upcoming Fall semester, I find myself reflecting on my summer adventures.   I am sure that fellow faculty members and students will be curious about my experience teaching photography in The Netherlands.   So, I spent a little time looking over student work and selecting what I thought were some of the best photographs taken by my students this summer.  The students photographed a wide variety of subjects for their various assignments. Assignments included architecture, shadows, reflections, graphic elements, the power of color and sense of place. Work by all students is included in this slideshow: Ryan Farmer, Trinity Falter, Matthew Zingg, Dylan Kahn and Lindsey Overhalser.  To see work by each individual student follow the link to the NING Website.

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“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered….”
— Paul Fussell

(Todd Duren) We’ve been home over two weeks now, and it’s good to be back. Karen is happy to have me home, and I see my daughters every morning, not just via Skype or The World’s Worst Cell Phone Connection. Home is where the heart is.

Home also means comfort. Our screen porch in the morning, the din of birdsongs, coffee steaming in the porch swing. My roomier shower. My free wi-fi. My air conditioning, my car, and my flip flops. By now I’ve unpacked, filled in the rest of my journal, tallied receipts, told stories, and shown pictures to friends. Things are back to normal. Almost.

This morning after coffee I found myself posting to my Facebook page that I’m “heartsick for Holland.” Wow. I wasn’t expecting this. Our Going Dutch trip was a great experience—one that I’ve been planning for a year. Why then am I surprised to miss it so much?
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(Trinity Falter) We had a rough beginning, with planes, trains and trams. After finally getting our rooms, going to dinner and crashing for the night, it was all blue skies from then on out. The first couple of days in Amsterdam we had beautiful weather (we were spoiled). The first week was full of sightseeing and snapshots. It took some time adjusting to the craziness of just crossing the street. Unless you wanted to get hit by a various number of things, you needed to look in about five different directions. It was difficult to get from point A to point B when half of the time the people with the map had no sense of direction, lol. It only took about a week to know where most things were.

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Here is half of my final!! I hope you enjoy it! —Trinity Falter
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