Over at DaveMadeThat.com, co-worker and social web wunderkind Dave is running a separate feature in which he documents his journey as he learns to play guitar.

Bravo to him for sharing the experience. Experienced pickers will see a lot of themselves in Dave's video posts and people like me who feel like they could never play guitar will have that feeling reaffirmed. For those of you with fingers flexible enough and the muscle memory to to from C7 to G#m7 and back again in two beats, bully for you.

Just as skilled and just as demanding is the ability to see and take great photos. Another co-worker, @bradleyspitzer, is an amazing photographer whose portraiture is so simple and unstaged that you can almost sense the effortlessness with which he shoots. Check out Flickr.com/bradleyspitzer for his work.

I'll never be able to shoot like that. But I am going to start learning how to make what I capture look less like badly shot iPhone candids and more like real photos. I'm starting a nine-week photography class at Watkins tomorrow. I've had my Nikon D40 for almost two years now and I'm not necessarily getting any better. I have the right equipment to shoot good photos, but not the right background.

I plan on documenting the journey here, no matter how awful the first efforts are. Based on the fact that my posting has been sporadic of late (damn you Twitter and your seductive 140 character limit) my readership has dropped significantly. So I may be the only one who notices the change.

In any case, tune in or watch your Twitter timeline for updates. Follow me on Twitter (@webslog) or grab the RSS feed over in the sidebar.

I can't promise Dorothea Lange realism, but I can promise at least a couple of submissions to "How NOT to Take Photographs." Join me, won't you?