I have picked-up more books from the library. I got another book on orchids and several on vampires. I have always been interested in vampires and vampire stories. To this day I think Bram Stoker's Dracula is the best vampire story of all time. I think the reason that I am so drawn to vampires is the mystery and the fact that they could never be. I am really excited to learn more about vampires, orchids and ruins, but am still very unsure where to go when I am done researching. Hopefully my next meeting with Tom will help with that. I also read another book that has nothing to do with the things that I have mentioned. I read The Mind's Eye. I found some things in there that I can relate to or things that if I think about more will hopefully help me in my own photography. Here are some quotes:

"In order to 'give a meaning' to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry."

"It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis."

"He is never able to wind the scene backward in order to photograph it all over again."

"Composition must be one of our constant preoccupations, but at the moment of shooting it can stem only from our intuition, for we are out to capture the fugitive moment, and all the interrelationships involved are on the move."

"Technique is important only insofar as you must master it in order to communicate what you see. Your own personal technique has to be created and adapted solely in order to make your vision effective on film."

"The world's lesson in photography might have happy or disastrous results, depending on the little fact of whether it is shown to be isolated, detached or not, from its contexts of time, place, humanity."

I am going to pick-up some more books on photography and hopefully learn something about myself and what I want to do with my work. I also plan to try some meditation to try to get into myself.