Thanksgiving

 Our assignment over this Thanksgiving break was to take one picture that represented Thanksgiving to us.  This first picture is the "kids" table at our house.  From left to right sits my big sister Kelly, my niece Addison, my brother-in-law Brett, and my big brother Andrew.  Although we are all grown and out of the house (except my brother because he's remodeling his new house), we are still all sitting at the kids table at holidays.  To me, Thanksgiving is about with family, especially my siblings, and being thankful for everything God has given you during the year including the delicious food on your table!  Out of all the pictures I took, I picked this one because it's their most natural state: laughing at the little sister because of something stupid she did.  The second picture is of my youngest niece, Addison Jo, eating her thanksgiving meal.  I posted it also just because I thought it was adorable.

Iconic Presentation

Vulture Stalks A Child

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Kevin Carter

Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist whose mission, along with others of the "Bang-bang Club, was to expose the brutality of apartheid.  Carter took this picture on his trip to Sudan to cover the famine going on there.  Soon after Carter got off the plane, he heard whimpering and went to investigate.    When he saw the little girl who had stopped to rest on her way to a feeding center, a vulture landed near her looking for food.  Carter, who saw the artistic and exposing possibilities, took twenty minutes to set up the photo so that it would be perfect.  After winning the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism almost a year later and receiving loads of negative criticism for not helping the little girl,  Carter, with no money and haunted by scenes of suffering and corpses, committed suicide.  Even though his life fell apart before him, to this day Kevin Carter is still known as an iconic photographer because of his noble work in exposing apartheid in South Africa.

Macro

We were sent out with a mission to get two micro photographs.  Because it had been raining on and off all day and it was freezing cold, I thought it would be miserable walking around campus; but these conditions definitely made for some beautiful photographs.  I knew I wanted to get a picture of these flowers when we set out on our assignment; but on the way to where the flowers are, I walked up the stairs and saw the hand rail.  I ended up spending more time and more frames on the handrail than I did on the flowers.  The first photo is the one picture I chose out of all the frames taken on the steps.  I chose it because the hand rail is placed in a place that gives the photo interest; also, the rain drops could be seen clearly.  The second photo is my favorite!  I took many pictures of these flowers and the only one of its kind.  The flowers add a pop of color in their strange placement giving the photo diversity and visual appeal.