Guitar talk

This is a photo I took last spring while walking from one place to another after work and it stuck in my head. The guitar player on the far right is Kurt Smith, a philosophy professor, who was talking some time (between day and evening classes perhaps) to do some playing.

One guitar seems to attract another, and pretty soon there was another student and his friend in the McCormick Center lobby to trading lick. Besides playing, Smith gave the students a miniature lesson in the origins of the traditional Spanish classical guitar oeuvre and how it shows both Islamic and Catholic cultural influences. It was an interesting example of how seemingly separate disciplines relate to one another.

Bloomsburg seems to have a growing guitar culture on campus with a classical guitar specialization and a very nice Guitar Ensemble as one of the music department's featured ensembles. Several of my favorite photos from the past couple years feature classical players.

Technical Notes: The top shot was done with the Canon 7D at ISO 1600 and set to aperture priority and with a shutter speed of 1/400. The lens is a Tokina 16-50 f2.8 at 23 mm and f3.5 .  Click on any of the photos to make them larger.