Monday, October 13, 2008

Julio, 7th Grade, RYSS


As you can see, the sun can be seen in my picture. To give you a clue where the sun is, you need to look at the black-colored cloud. The reason the cloud is black is because of the reflection of the camera. Since I like clouds, I decided to take a picture of them. When I saw this picture in the digital camera, I was surprised how the sun looked. The clouds were awesome. When I see pictures of clouds, I feel happy. I never thought that a picture of the sun and clouds would look this amazing.



Julio, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

it looks amazing!

Anonymous said...

That's a cool picture about the sun
that is being covered by the clouds
and the shadows are cool.I like the
flash of the sun on the camera.

Anonymous said...

Yes this picture looks amazing. Maybe you do need a special time to take the picture. That picture shows how the day was. The sun looks fine behind the clouds.

Anonymous said...

I like this picture because it looks like it's going to rain. I don't remember if it rained that day. Cool picture.

Anonymous said...

I like this picture because the sky has a lot of different colors. I can tell that you take really good pictures.

Anonymous said...

Nice picture. It shows the sun from your point of view.

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Anonymous said...

I like this picture because it looks cool. It looks like I'm flying into the sun. If I can make this picture into a poster, I would put it on my wall.

Anonymous said...

Wow, that is so pretty!
At what time did you take it?
Was it going to rain or what?

Anonymous said...

This picture looks cool because it looks deep and expresses itself.

Anonymous said...

This is cool because, the sun, and the clouds look perfect.

Anonymous said...

The way you got the sun and clouds just right is amazing. The way you could capture the sun, the "black clouds", and the glow in one photo makes the picture just right!

Anonymous said...

Wow, This Picture Is Amazing!
How Did You Take It? What Time Did You Take It At? This Looks Like A Picture In A Magazine. Good Job!

Anonymous said...

This is amazing! Its a very cool picture! The way you caught the clouds and sun is very cool!
Good Job! :)

Anonymous said...

This picture is really cool, I like how the clouds are different colors (black and white) I like the flash on your camera reflected the sun!

Anonymous said...

That picture is amazing! It shows how dark and "evil" the sun can be, and it also shows the light "nice" side of it. This picture is almost like a poem, in a way. It has many different moods and feelings. You take a good picture!

Anonymous said...

That's a really awesome picture!! It's so cool how the clouds look different from each other and how you can see the sun perfectly in the black cloud.

Anonymous said...

You caught the sun at just the right time because it looks very nice in this picture. The black cloud also looks cool in this picture as it looks like it is about to cover the sun and it is taking over the sky.

Instructors and LTP

Instructors:

Harold Olejarz is Art and Technology teacher at Eisenhower Middle School, Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.A. He began his career as a sculptor and exhibited in Soho, NYC, in the early 1980s. His work evolved into Performance Art and his living sculptures installed themselves in museums and public spaces in the US and Europe from 1985 to the early 1990s. He has been exploring digital media as both an artist and an educator since 1997. “Capturing the Moving Present,” an essay by Harold Olejarz, is included in Video Art for the Classroom, a National Art Education Association publication. Olejarz has made presentations on the use of digital media at state and national educational conferences.

Tom Chambers is Technology Applications teacher at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [Junior Academy], Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He was Visiting Lecturer in Digital/New Media Art for the Fine Arts Department at Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China, 2005-2007. He was Executive Committee Member and Juror (2003 - 2005) for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA), and was instrumental in expanding the content of the IDAA to include New Media Art, and served as on-line New Media Director (2004 - 2005). Chambers has been a documentary photographer and visual artist for over thirty years, and he is currently working with the pixel as Minimal Art (Pixelscapes) which begins to approach a true, abstract, visual language in Digital Art.

Tanya Heard is Art/Photo teacher at T. H. Rogers School, Houston, Texas.

2007 - 2008 school year participant:

Dorian Gillespie is Art teacher at Southmore Intermediate School in Pasadena Texas. Prior to coming to Southmore, he taught at Bailey Elementary. He decided to teach and mentor students in the arts in order to give them an opportunity to learn and advise them of the many career choices an artist has. Although he did not teach art at Bailey, he was able to incorporate many art lessons into the curriculum. He has taught after school art classes for the University of Houston Clear Lake as well. Rather than become a professional artist, he decided to mentor as a teacher.

This blog was a part of the FotoFest LTP process:

2007 - 2008
2008 - 2009
2009 - 2010

Literacy Through Photography (LTP), the educational component of FotoFest International (Houston, Texas), is a writing program designed to help classroom students achieve better communication skills through the use of digital or film-based photography.

FotoFest has combined with the instructors and schools to pursue a pilot program ... blog approach ... for LTP.

Students increase visual and verbal literacy while building cognitive thinking skills, self-esteem, and awareness of each other. The LTP curriculum provides students with meaningful subject matter to help them write about their own photographs, their own lives, with confidence.

This blog, founded by Harold Olejarz and Tom R. Chambers continues to be a significant tool to help students with their written expression.