By Margo Moore
Redwood High School offers a vast selection of clubs and electives to choose from to help students find their hobbies and passions. Mr. Miller, a Redwood teacher of 23 years, will be adding in a new elective next school year: photography.
Photography is a unique and gratifying artistic medium, and the class will be centered around “the art and science of taking a great picture.” [Mr. Miller] Students will learn “ all kinds of different aspects of photography,” including experimental, black and white, light painting, and “all kinds of interesting ways to use a camera to tell a story.”
To Mr. Miller, that is the main purpose of photography for Redwood High school is that Redwood “has a great story and lots of people doing lots of different things, and documenting that story makes Redwood a more powerful place.”
To him personally, Mr. Miller “[is] a horrible drawer, but [he] like[s] images,” and prefers to share creative imagery through photography instead. He “love[s] taking pictures,” and knows that “people love to see themselves.”
“Instagram and social media and, you know, ‘can you send me that?’ We live in that generation,” he says, and he loves “helping fuel that fire with great images.”
Mr. Miller would like for his future photography students to learn the difference between the pictures they take with their phones, and a good quality picture.
Most importantly, he hopes to “empower a whole new section of Redwood society… and help them find their thing,” and maybe “build a skill and make the world a more beautiful place with imagery.”
Margo Moore
Margo, 25', is a sophomore at Redwood High School and a second-year journalism student who works as an arts and entertainment writer for the Redwood Gigantea. She also loves to take photos and publish photogalleries. You can reach her at @margo.mo3574@vusd.us