Monday, October 13, 2008

Leimy, 8th Grade, RYSS


When you look at a tree, the leaves are what make you happy. I really like this picture because green is one of my favorite colors. When I saw this tree, I looked straight at the leaves. I really like the shape of the leaves and especially if you turn them around, they look like teardrops. I am very attracted to leaves because I like the way some are green and when seasons change, they turn yellow, red, orange and other colors. I like the fact that they have little veins. Leaves are like humans. They drink water and breathe. They give us life. Without trees and leaves, we probably wouldn't be alive right now.



Leimy, 8th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like these pictures because the leaves look so shiny. It is a very good picture.

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Anonymous said...

I like the picture. It's so amazing! I like it because the leaves are shiny. Good job!

Anonymous said...

I really enjoy looking at this picture because its so simple, and yet it looks like a masterpiece. I think its beautiful because its taken just by nature, and yet you can get the feeling were they might have taken it. I like how you can also see the texture of the leafs, and how some might have been wet due to rain. I feel like I would see this in a nature video, or maybe a magazine. I really love looking at this picture.

Anonymous said...

I never really noticed it before, but leaves really do make you happy! I think it is important for a picture to make you happy, and this one really did. This photo is so simple, but it is really beautiful. It says so much about nature.


p.s. i really like he color!

Anonymous said...

I really like looking at trees and green is one of my favorite colors. These leaves do look a little like tear drops.They are really shiny and nice. Good job

Anonymous said...

I like this picture because the leaves are shiny and it shows life and growth. The green is bright and it catches your eye.

Anonymous said...

I like this picture because the leaves are shiny and it shows life and growth. The green is bright and it catches your eye.

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.