Photography Badge

Last night was chaotic, but I think the girls had fun. We uploaded the theme photos that the girls shot on their own, and then they made a collage out of them. Some of them were really good! Unfortunately, we only had one computer with Picasa on it (and Picasa is free and easy, so why doesn't everyone use it?) and that computer decided to be finicky about reading media cards and jump drives. So we only got 6 (out of 11) collages finished. While we took turns working on the collages, the other girls worked on shooting portraits of each other. But we didn't have time to upload any of those, and talk about which ones are good, and why.

So the girls might work on the collages and portraits on their own, and bring them to our next meeting. For the girls who don't have the time or computer equipment for that, they will finish up at out next meeting. That will make planning the next meeting a little bit harder, but I'm sure we'll make it work out.

Next project for the photography badge is shooting pictures and portraits at the Daisy Princess Party this Sunday.

Easy meeting...

This week was very easy for me. Since the older girls didn't meet, and all the younger groups were taken care of, I collected all the nut orders and money, and actually had time to chat with the parents. I enjoy getting the chance to get to know them better, so it was a lovely evening.

Ceremony

Last Tuesday we had out Investiture and Rededication Ceremony. It went great! The girls decided to do a flag ceremony, and then we did bridging, the investiture, and the rededication. Of course afterward, we had a great party. Lots of fun!

Journeys?

So today my co-leader, another leader, and I were having a meeting to talk about Journeys for the older girls, and the possibility of trying to earn them in a workshop or lock-in setting. My co-leader works at the university, and she knows a professor there who needed an environmental project for her students to facilitate. She met with us to see whether they could help us with the "It's Your Planet" series. She was as baffled and bewildered by the books as the rest of us, and ended up picking out a couple of badges for the students to facilitate. That's great, and I hope lots of the girls will take advantage of this opportunity to earn an IPA, but that leaves us back with these Journeys, and no good plan of what to do with them.

Good intentions

Oh such good intentions about writing in this blog every Wednesday, after our Tuesday night meeting...

Well, I do what I can.

Last Tuesday the older girls started the photography IPA. It's a pretty obsolete badge, barely even mentioning digital photography. But we talked about composition, and depth of field, shutter speed and stuff like that - they don't change even if the technology does. Our group has volunteered to handle the SU Daisy event, and we are going to take pictures, so that will be another activity towards this badge. The girls were bored learning about composition, but maybe once they go out and start taking pictures, they might remember a bit of what we talked about.

This Saturday, 8 of my girls attended a badge workshop. Daisies earned a petal, Brownies earned a try-it, and Juniors earned the Art in 3D badge . We went to the local college to walk around and look at sculpture, and then picked up leaves and twigs. We went back to the meeting, and used the leaves and twigs to make a mobile. Then the girls did origami, (fun!) played with clay, made a wire sculpture, and learned about positive and negative space. All in all, a fun day, and they get a badge for it. I love when things work out like that!