One minute | Dong Sicheng

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With a bland and lonely weekend comes an even blander Monday. 

Having to study Maths at 9a.m was something I still didn't have the ability to do, and all I could think about was the photos I had taken yesterday.

Only two deer were at my usual spot, and both looked close to exact, so I had no variety in my images. I was only able to get a few shots of their antlers and facial features. And to ruin it even more, a family had let their kid run off of the path, scaring the poor creatures. It had taken half an hour for them to come back, but all my images had come out the same afterwards.

I could've tried to move around and capture the deer from different directions, but after already getting frightened by the child, I didn't want to risk it. 

I could've possibly tried to go to a new location in the park, but the map states that my usually area is where the majority of the deer usually go. But maybe I should try that if the situation happens again.

I had already decided on making my final images black and white, but what about the other aspects of editing? How I should've changed the exposure, shadows and highlights. Would I make the background darker or lighter than how I originally captured it? And should I leave the landscape images in landscape form, or switch some to portrait, and vice versa.

My mind then went to the Canadian Geese. It was easier to gain there attention, as all I had to do was give them bread, and lettuce aswell, as only giving them bread was bad for their diet, and they needed more nutrients. But then what aspects of their bodies should I capture; their webbed feet, feathers and mouth? But that was closely similar to how I captured my deer.

And how many pictures would I be printing for the final display. The task sheet said 9 as a maximum, so doing 8 would mean that I could do 4 Fallow Deer images, and 4 Canadian Geese images. And then all I would have to decide on is how I display them for the exhibitioN.

My thoughts then switched to that exhibition. The flyer said to invite family and friends, but my family was still at work during the time when families and friends were scheduled to visit, and I didn't have any friends to invite. Was there any point in me even attending.

My thoughts were interrupted when the person sat next to me tapped me on the shoulder, and pointed towards the whiteboard. I was met with a list of practice questions, most likely there for us to work on. It turns out that I had zoned out for 10 minutes of the class, and now had a selection of questions to work on about something that I didn't know.

I began to note down the questions in my book, making sure that one letter went into each square of the page, because our teacher was strict about the presentation of our work.

I let out a sigh and carelessly answered the questions. I usually never understood my classes anyway.