Myer

My daughter plays flute and saxophone in a local jazz group consisting of other Malibu High School musicians. The Malibu Jazzmaster Funkadelic is led and mentored by my good friend, Steve Cole, who in addition to his job as an emergency room physician is a talented trumpet and piano player and a true “jazzhead”. Steve writes all of the charts for the band and provides music stands, chairs, amps, keyboard, etc. whenever the group plays at local charitable events. At this event, Bill Bixler, head of the instrumental music department at Malibu High School and Louis Cole (www.youtube.com/louiscolemusic) sat in on alto sax and drums, respectively. These guys can swing.

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Pt. Dume Marine Science Elementary School Self-Portraits

April 28th, 2011 § 0

Over the past few years, I’ve been volunteering to teach photography to 4th and 5th graders at a local public elementary school. Normally, I show examples of a certain type of work (portraiture, abstract, landscape, etc.) and then cut them loose to shoot with digital cameras and we review their choices the following week. The results never fail to impress me.

One week we set up a “mini studio” in a classroom and had the students shoot self-portraits. They were allowed to shoot three portraits and selected their favorite.

Here are a few samples: