Pic of the week returns :D

By: Megan Gonzalez

This is my first personal photo for the blog, taken over winter break. The photo was taken at Euro Cafe in Claremont. 

Self Reflection

1. I feel that I deserve a P+ on my senior project, I have done everything that we were required to do. I am very involved with my ROP and currently have an AE in the class. I have a Picture of the Week on my blog, where I put a picture and information about the picture under it. I was one of the first to be approved on my science project, and I have also start to prep to begin the project. I am also helping clubs at school by taking pictures for them. I also have a real understanding of my topic and enjoy learning about it from my research.

2. I would have to say ROP, I have learned so much and I really enjoy it. I have already learned a lot of photography skill that help take a better picture. I think my photography skills are way better than they were before I started ROP. I have also learned a lot of things on Photoshop, which is really cool, since I didn't know anything about Photoshop. I am actually pretty good at Photoshop now. We recently had to do a 10 minute presentation and write a 5 page essay on two photographers with a group 5. I only had to write a page but I ended up writing a page in a half because I really enjoyed writing about the photographers. I also made the power point in my group and was very proud of the results.

3. I want to improve on my research checks, I usually take longer reading my research and margin note a lot of things but I never finish at the end of class. So I was thinking I should margin note two articles the day before and leave one for the next day. I would also like to improve the quality of my articles, they are not that long and don't have that much depth in them.

Kung Fu Master, China

Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann, National Geographic

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Buddhist monk and kung fu master Shi Dejian (above) and his disciples hauled bags of cement and roof tiles up steep mountain paths to build an isolated retreat (in background) away from the tourist crowds at the Shaolin Temple.

 

                                     

         Aurora Borealis

                          Photograph by James Appleton, My Shot

  This was taken on the second night of a four-night stay on top of this glacial pass in southern Iceland. I picked the spot late in the afternoon and camped out waiting for the night to fall and hoping for some showing of the northern lights. It turned out to be one of the most memorable evenings of my life; the display was incredible.                                                                           

Science Fair Proposal

1. If you put a picture with emotion in front of someone, then the person will be show that emotion.

     2. Dependent- The person

         Independent- The picture

         Controlled- emotion, once I pick the emotion it will not change

    

     3. My EQ and science project are closely tied. In become a photojournalist you want people to feel something when they see your photo, you want to change their mind about something. You want your picture to mean something, if that means making them feel a certain emotion then it must be done. In my science fair project I want to make people feel one emotion from one picture. I want to make an impact on those people.

     4. I have to do an before kind of experience, to see what emotion I should pick. Then I will show different people different picture tiring to make them feel one emotion then I will ask what they are feeling and do the experiment like that. I plan on using people, maybe a class room, paper, pens, pictures and pictures.

     5. Behavioral/Social Science

Apricot Blossoms, Italy

Photograph by William Albert Allard, National Geographic

William Albert Allard’s stunning scene of spring blossoms takes advantage of a very simple element—the wind. When a fortunate breeze created a snowfall of blossoms, Allard was in a perfect position to capture the scene’s beauty. —Annie Griffiths

Picture of the week :D 2

Photograph by Erika Larsen

Cone-shaped tents called lávut provide temporary shelter for Sami herders while following the reindeer. Nils Peder Gaup, resting here on the tundra, feels most at home in the mountains. "The Sami spirit follows you," he says.