While ruminating on the lessons and experiences of attending my first photography workshop, the La Push Collaboration Workshop, I keep returning to one thing. The most valuable aspect of the workshop did not lie in any technical skills learned (though there were many of those). The greatest value was in moments like these, with everybody transfixed by the glow from the embers of the great equalizer–the fire. The surprisingly many hours spent shooting the shit around the fire helped to provi…