Courtney: Shapes and Patterns

I did not like this topic because it was hard, ugly, weird, and I was to short to take pictures of the tall signs. (Director Heidi choose this photo)

Mayson: Shapes and Patterns

I like this because they are cats and you can see a lot of shapes.  Their ears are triangles and those whiskers are cylinders.

Ryan: Shapes and Patterns

I like this picture because it has shapes and patterns and it is a nice fence.

Alisha: Shapes and Patterns

I like the colors, the randomness and how it filled the frame. I also liked that it looked faded.

Canvas on Demand

What is Beautiful? Part Two

Our second set of photography students went out in the same neighborhood to look for subjects they found to be beautiful. Some students found this subject to be more difficult as shown by less pictures being taken than when they took pictures of What is Ugly?. One student shared that she did not find it to be difficult because she would rather focus on the good things in life than the bad. Some students shared that they wish they could focus on the good things more easily. Our hope is that this class will empower the teens to make changes in their own neighborhood. Some of our teens have helped plant a community garden and landscape the LYN House in an effort to make our neighborhood more beautiful.

Ryan: What is Beautiful?

I like it because the dark clouds frames the photo.

Mayson: What is Beautiful?

I like this picture because I picked a green bean and held it up to take the picture. (Green bean grown from Mayson's own garden).

Alisha: What is Beautiful

I like all the green in the picture. I also like how I got mostly leaves then one little fruit thing. I also like the sun on some of the leaves and then there's some with shade.

Courtney: What is Beautiful?

The focus is the intersecting grass blade and it was meant to blend out of focus.

Victoria: What is Beautiful?

I like this picture because the way the light shines on it and the shadows in the leaves/flowers makes the picture look more interesting and unique.

What is Ugly? Part Two

This month we started our second View Finder Project class. New students, new eyes, same lessons and neighborhood. Some of the students took pictures of the same subjects as the past students. Many students found other subjects they found ugly that were uniquely different from each other. In a neighborhood where ugly is sometimes too easy to find, these students were able to take the ugly and make it interesting to the eye.

Mayson: What is Ugly?

I like this picture because I do not know what it is. Also it goes from dark to light. I also think that it is pretty because how the light hits the thing.

Courtney: What is Ugly?

I like this photo because the flower is ugly to me (not to some) and the grass is all choppy and messed up and the bricks are a good background. The whole picture is a dirty picture which I like.

Alisha: What is Ugly?

I like it because of the background I got. It's still focusing on the van and the grafitti, but the background is cool. I get little parts of the van and then the grafitti.