Monday, October 13, 2008

Kelly, 7th Grade, RYSS


I like this picture because it is of my two friends who are acting weird and just playing. And I caught them posing and checking themselves out in their reflection. On the left is a yellow line of the parking lot. It was the day after it rained, so there were still a lot of puddles. In the background of the reflection, you can see the sky and the clouds. I think this looks cool. Another reason I like this picture is because it ends at their knees. I took this picture because my friends always make me happy. When I look at this picture, it makes me think of all the good times we have had and will have in the future.



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

18 comments:

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Anonymous said...

I like how you can see the reflection of the sky on the water.

Anonymous said...

Thats true my friends make me happy and we always have good times.

Anonymous said...

This is such a good picture

Anonymous said...

I like your picture because it shows the reflection in the water. It is like you are looking in a mirror, and it shows what you are doing.

Anonymous said...

THIS PICTURE IS PRETTY COOL BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THE SHADOW OF THE TWO CHILDREN.

Anonymous said...

Wow geneva and jazlyn look so good and I didn't think that it would look like that. It looks beautiful.

Anonymous said...

I like this picture.It looks cool because of the reflection of the two girls.

Anonymous said...

I like this picture because they are my best friends. This picture
is very interesting because, it has their reflection, and it looks like they were having a good time.

Anonymous said...

I like this picture, because you can see the reflection of the two girls.

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Anonymous said...

This picture looks cool. You took the picture in a slanted way. I really like how you took it slanted.

Anonymous said...

This picture is so unique because it shows the reflection of both of you and it shows many different colors.

Anonymous said...

That picture is so unique. I like that it shows parts of the paring lot and that it shows the sky and two students. Everything in that picture is totally different, but when you put them together, it is truly a piece of art. Another element of why I like this picture is because it reminds me about when I fool around with my friends.

Anonymous said...

Your picture is really cool.
I like how you can see a little bit of the street coming off the puddle. It makes it look mysterious and real.
Reflections are so cool. That picture really does say a thousand words.

Anonymous said...

Wow! This picture is so cool! it looks like your friends are upside down. I really like the way you captured the clouds in your picture. It is very interesting!

Anonymous said...

I like this picture because it is like a painting in the middle of a parking lot! This is very creative and I like how you always think of your friends when you see this picture!

Anonymous said...

I like how you can not exactly make out their faces but you can still see that they are two kids. Its really cool because you can also see the reflection of the sky in the background.

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.