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 I really enjoy this picture because the setting is very beautiful. This picture was taken in Waikiki Hawaii. It makes you want to just jump through the picture.

This picture is so amazing to me in the way that the sky is so blue and the sun is setting on the horizon. It makes you feel as if you're actually there.

Found Faces

   It was in the late 80's when I moved from my cozy home in Oklahoma, to the small town of Newberg, Oregon. My family had been suffering from what is known as trashysyndrome. Trashysyndrome is a disease where you get very ill after too many kids being thrown inside of you. It was a very tragic experience and I'm glad to be away from it all. Now, I suppose I should tell you my name and what I do with my life. My name is Billy Joe Bob Gillford Franklin the 1st and I'm a trash can. Just in case you couldn't already tell. I help out the janitors at the school nearby and then go home to my wonderful family of 70. You're probably wondering where I'm going with this story and no it's not just an excuse for me to talk about how amazingly wonderful and talented I am, it actually has a point.
  So one rainy day around 5, the janitor had just taken me out to the front of the school to be picked up by the trash man; little did he know I was not alone. Someone earlier had thrown a kid into me and he had been knocked unconscious. I never got the full story of how it happened only small bits here and there when he came through and was talking to himself. His name was Brody and he had been being bullied for a few months now. The bullies would always take his lunch money and when he tried to fight them to get it back they would throw him in the nearest trash can. This time it had gone a little too far.
  Brody had been walking outside of school and figured that everyone would have left since it was an hour after school got out. He had nearly gotten to the gate when 4 guys came up and threw him against the gate asking for his money. Brody told them he had already given them all his money and had none left; of course they didn't believe him. They decided to scare him a bit and pretend to punch him when Brody tried to run away he slipped on a banana peel and fell and hit his head. The boys had no idea what to do so they picked him up and threw him into the nearest trash can; me. It threw me for a loop because I was just in the middle of a deep sleep. Not long after the big trash truck came and I did everything in my power to wake him up. He finally came through and started to mutter a bunch of what happened and then stumbled out.
  I will never forget that day and everything Brody had told me. I didn't want him to know that my hidden talent was talking because that would only make his story less believeable. I never knew how his story ended and whether or not those boys got what they deserved but at least I know I made a friend; sort of.

Lacrosse Composition

                                                                    Rule of Thirds

                                                                      Filling The Frame

                                                                  Different Angle

                                                                     Horizontal Lines

                                                                           Framing

                                                                        Diagnol

                                                                     Converging

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Highline in Brazil

This photo was taken of a man walking on a rope in Brazil. I really like this picture because it takes a lot of strength and nerve to walk across openly like that. The landscaping is magnificent and the way the man is captured is so AWESOME! It looks as if he's loosing his balance but he also looks perfectly content. Almost as if he's frozen in time.

Black and White

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                                                                         Landscape

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Ansel Adams

                                                    Alfred Stieglitz & Painting by O'Keeffe
   
    Ansel Adams was the most famous photographer known for black and white photos. His photography showed a lot of emotion even for the simplest of things. When Ansel was only 4 an aftershock of an earthquake knocked him over, breaking his nose. With his shyness, and genius behaviors it made it hard for him to fit in at school. His father and aunt taught him before he went to private school because he wasn't very successful. His somewhat odd, and different childhood also made him more interested in being outdoors. Something very interesting was that when Ansel was just 12 he taught himself how to play the piano and read music. Soon after he had started lessons it had made something in his mind want to do formal schooling. For the next years the piano was Ansel's primary occupation and in 1920 his intended profession. The piano had brought peace to Ansel's crazy childhood, even though he eventually gave that all up for photography. He published his very first photography in the Sierra Club's 1922 bulletin. In 1927 Ansel made his very first visualized photograph, Monolith, The Face of Half Dome. Ansel came under influence of a man named Albert M. Bender who made his first portfolio. Albert"s encouragement, support, and determination changed Ansel's life drastically. Also in 1927 Ansel met Edward Weston, another photographer who not only became great friends with him but one of his greater colleagues. A lot of people and groups realized the energy and great work these two men did.
    In the 1930's Ansel's stardom rose furiously! He made is first visit to New York in 1933 to meet Alfred Stieglitz. The man whose work inspired Ansel to the greatest of his potential. Ansel spent a lot of his time in New York and Stieglitz's circle played a huge role in his artistic life. All this payed off when in 1933 New York gave Ansel his first show.  Ansel was a great photographer and reading about him inspires me to never give up my dream of being a photographer. The reason I chose this picture above was because it is of Alfred Stieglitz, then man who had inspired him to persevere in everything he did, even when  times got tough. This man played a big role in Ansel's life. Ansel selected this image for his Museum Set, which was 75 of what he considered his best photographs and said it would help define his artistic legacy.