Monday, October 13, 2008

Jonathan P., 7th Grade, RYSS


This picture is great. I like it because it shows nature and life. What I like about it the most is the point of view. It is awesome from the side, and you can see the sun's reflection. I like how it's showing the sun, and you can see a reflection of a leaf. The sun hitting it shows a lot of detail. Also, you can see that the background of the picture is blurry. This is because I concentrated or focused on the leaves. When I took the picture, I knew it was going to come out great. I tried to focus the lens close so the background wouldn't show, just the leaves. The picture makes me happy. I think it's because of how I focused and the angle. I feel great about it. Though I haven't expressed my feelings too much, it's a good job, and I like it. This picture reminds me of science which isn't my favorite subject though plants look good if you really look at them. It depends on how you look at them. This picture describes living things in nature. It shows the fresh air and how the hot sun shines. It happens often, but the plant still lives if it has water. You can also see the branches in the left corner.

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

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like the picture because the leaves are so full of green,and you can see the brown from the branches.

Anonymous said...

This picture looks like a pro took it. it looks like it took hours to set up in the right spot.

Anonymous said...

I really like this picture! You really captured the different
textures of the leaves. This is a very nice photograph! Good Job! :)

Anonymous said...

I really like this picture, to me it shows nature at its best. The leaves are very green and are so full. This is a great photograph!

Anonymous said...

I really like this picture! It's taken at a really cool angle and the lighting on it makes it stand out. Awesome picture !

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.