Mural Project.

Abandoned Theme Parks.

The theme park that i found most interesting and would want to go visit with my camera is Koka Family Land, Shiga, Japan. I guess what caught my eye from this amusement park was the even though its abandoned they're rides still have some color, ad color is good. It also seems that they have a lot of good potential pictures for lines.

Some unusual places that i think might be of interest to photographers are skate parks, kitchens, junkyards, forests, creeks, and alleyways.

This guy Tom Matthew thought of one of my unusual places and has already started taking pictures here's one.

One of my unusual places was alleyways, i guess what interests me about this is the different kinds of like stone floors or pathways the you hear about in fairy tales and you see in like Twilight.  I'd expect to take sort of erie looking pictures, and I'd probably want to take them at night. That is what this guy did, and since it was dark you don't see much but the lamp brings out the pattern on the ground.

To have this experience i'd first have to locate a alleyway in Austin. I'd need  a camera and maybe some different sort of lens. And i don't think i would run into any laws about alleyways.

Funny Captions.

William, the dog In Ohio at about 2:00 pm sleeps after a long day, while on duty. The Smith family was very disappointed in the dog they had hired a week before, to watch their house while they were on vacation.




The Lindsey family, passes through California at about 5:00 pm while on a road trip. A storm had just hit in this state preventing this family to go back home causing them to saw a huge hole in this large sequoia .

Some Mexicans steal a bike from a Valero  in Dove Springs over night at about 1:00 am. Roger had only left his bike there long enough to buy some milk from the cornerstore, he says he'll never make this mistake again. 

Great Black & White Photographers; PART 3.

The first thing that caught my eye when looking at Walker Evans photography was that he takes pictures of things that you see every day, and makes them look so intriguing. Something that made me want to choose them was the way he sets up his pictures they look like he didn't try to set them up and also it's street photography, my favorite.

I see leafless trees, like autumn has come, and long sidewalks that never end.
I smell rain, and the outside cold.
I hear a quiet nothingness and a nobody like i've been shut out, vacant and deserted.
I taste dull, wet, shallow, boring, simple.
I feel empty, lonely, and sluggish, like the end of something and the beginning of another.

I see old, torn, rough, jagged, tousled, unlevel, wrinkly and worn out paper.
I smell strangers, people, different odors and fragrances, a variety of cultures and personalities coming and going.
I hear briskly passing footsteps, and slow tortoise like strolling, then carefree moderate paced walking, everybody going someplace or another.
I taste excitement, on my tounge ready to jump off at any given second, kind of how you feel right before a performance.
I feel nervous butterflies swarming around in my stomach tickling my guts till i'm sick.

I'd like to create some sort of biography including a short story about him and some of his greatest work maybe. Something not to "school" related so it'll stay interesting and informative. 

Academic Shoot Reflection.

Some of the challenges i faced while taking pictures for the academic shoot and trying to abide by the rules given, were seeing things i liked and wanting to take pictures of them, but having to stop and look for a way to take the pictures that a rule would show through.

One of the aspects of photography that i probably thought about the most while shooting was framing, the background and what was in it was constantly contemplated. It couldn't be to busy, but not every pictures should portray simplicity either.

Something i would change would probably be to look for the rule first and then shoot a picture, instead of the other way around, it's harder.

Something I'd do the same, is how i look for pictures i think i have a pretty good eye of what i like to take pictures of maybe just not exactly how to capture it.

When i go out with my next set of prompts i think the easiest rule to take might be simplicity that one seems to be easy for me and maybe rule of thirds as to you can move the camera around the subject.

The rule i think will be hardest to capture will be framing, because when i think framing i think of leaves surrounding the picture and a lot of the time, the photos i take are inside.

The rule that i am still not totally clear on is lines, i'm not sure if there just has to be lines in the photo or of the lines always have to lead to something else.

Mural Project Preview.

A theme i think would be cool to do for the school would be like personality of organizations.

I personally don't have a phone so that kind of un-includes people like myself without a phone, and also in my opinion the cameras we use probably take better pictures.

I think we should definitely put it somewhere, where everyone would have an opportunity to see it, like the cafeteria.

Africa Project Preview.

My reaction to the power point was amazement, i was awed by every single one of the photos in that power point, the photographer really captures the realness and liveliness of all these animals and the fact that these pictures are taken in black and white kind of give it even more of a significance.

This photo is my favorite simply because it's of elephants and i love elephants and i though the baby elephant was so cute , but another reason i chose this picture was because it looks like the photographer got down low to take this picture and it shows how large these animals really are. 

Some of the rules i see in this picture are simplicity there isn't a super crazy background it's the normal place they live so it doesn't look odd or off in anyway. I also see rule of thirds with the elephant most to the left, he's on that the left line. 

The kind of camera the photographer use to take this picture is called a Pentax 6711.
Nick Brandt, the photographer chose to take these pictures because while he was directing Earth Song a music video for Jackson in Tanzania, he fell in love with the animals and land of East Africa. 

Brandts' hope is that he can capture these animals and his love for them through photography, in a way that no one else has before. 

He says "You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundreds feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close. "