In short, the weekend helped me approach photography in a whole new way. I stopped worrying about being a photographer and simply became a photographer. I stopped wondering whether I was a portrait photographer, a nature photographer, a travel photographer or any type of photographer and simply learned to enjoy taking photographs. I don't know. To this day most of my photographs are best left on a contact sheet for my eyes only.
Good teaching is invisible.
It sneaks up, and crawls under a persons skin without their ever realizing it happened. Once that happens it is impossible to go back and see the shadows on the wall as your only reality. All you know is that you see the world through new eyes. In other words, good teaching is like good art. The medium of the lesson is secondary to the content of the idea.