class portrait

For some reason, I never posted this to my blog. Everyone in the class combined into two people. I had a lot of fun doing this. I just went with the flow and took something small from each portrait.

Final

This project has been hard for me because I have been so sick. A couple weeks ago before I was sick I went to Boston to buy some paints and took pictures of the architecture there. I thought maybe thats where I was going to go with my final. After looking through some of my pictures from Boston, I decided I wanted to do landscapes with the sun going down. I love taking pictures of landscapes so I figured this would be a good idea from my final. A lot of times I am driving home from work and the sun is going down and I try to capture it in my car. A lot of my pictures were taken from inside a car because I've been so sick and can not go outside that much. If I was not sick, I think I could of done a better job on this project,

Greece

So, you guys are probably finishing up your critique of all the finals and I could not be there. I have been home sick for almost 2 weeks now. I have missed all my classes and finals and it is stressing me out. There has been no way I could take pictures over the past two weeks. I think I am starting to get a little better. Since I could not go out and take some pictures, I have been looking through my pictures to try and work something out. I went to Greece last summer and would love to use those pictures as my final. I however did not take them this semester, so I do not know if it will be acceptable. I am putting them on here for you to see just in case. These are the ones I would choose. I think they show the beauty of Greece, and just to let you know, pictures do not do it justice. It is breath taking there.

Parthenon

Athens

Olympic Stadium

Santorini

Santorini

Village, where my mom was born

Social Narrative

For some reason my picture of the drunk guy sleeping would not upload.

I really enjoyed this assignment because I love the Bruins and I got to express the experience of a Bruins game. My idea kept changing for the social narrative landscape, at first I wanted to do poverty. When I was thinking social narrative landscape, I was thinking of negativity, something negative in this world that needed to be documented. I was struggling with this concept. Then I asked Sarah Nelson what she was doing for her and she said music scene. Sports clicked in my brain right away. 

   Once I had an idea I was excited about, all the juices were flowing. I wanted to go around town and capture anything that had to do with sports. I was home in Nashua at the time and for some reason nothing was really catching my eye. I had tickets to two Bruins games and I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to take the pictures I wanted. All the pictures I took I ended up liking. I am one of those people that take a picture and only want to take one. I do not like taking a million of one thing. My contact sheets always end up being very short and that is why. I like to get it all in one shot. The only picture that is missing from this that I wanted, was I wanted to find a bum holding up a Bruins sign. They are always around the Garden trying to get money for cheering for the Bruins. Unfortunately I could not find one. This assignment was also hard for me to switch to black and white because I love color so much but I really wanted them to look classic. 

Shepard

911

When 911 happened, I was in 7th grade. We had two classrooms right next to each other connected by a series of windows, so you could see into each classroom. One room had a t.v. and the other did not, I was in the classroom that did not have a t.v. The other teacher came into our room and said something in private to our teacher. Our teacher then made us all get in the room with the t.v. They turned on the news and one tower had already been hit. I really don't think I understood what was going on exactly. I knew what the twin towers were and have been in them before but I had no idea why these planes were flying into them. We sat and watched until the second tower was hit. The teachers were crying and I knew it was something serious. A few people were on there phones calling people. I remember there was some concern because  one of the students could not get a hold of their parents but I am pretty sure they ended up being fine. After that it is a blur. I remember perfectly the t.v being put on but a few hours after that I don't remember my reaction at all.

Social Narrative Landscape

What is a social narrative landscape? I could not tell you. This was my idea of it. I decided it had to be a landscape that could tell a story. My first picture of a boy texting, I really liked the landscape he was in and I thought it could tell its own story. We do not know who this boy is texting or what he is waiting for in that chair. The second picture I took was under a bridge. There was graffiti all over it and also million of nip bottles. I figure this landscape in its self could tell a story. The third one, I just really like the symmetry :)