Week One

Week 1 My trip to Lacoste has been amazing. Everywhere I go I have to have my camera. My camera is a memory box that I can always go back to. I started off my trip just taking it all in and looking at everything without taking pictures because when I am taking pictures I am not paying attention to the feeling of the experience I am having. Once I began taking photos I fell in love with the outcomes how many photos I was taking. I looked through them and I usually only have a few I keep but I haven't dragged one photo to the trash box quit yet. I went through a faze of just taking touristy photos as everyone has to do when entering a new place. The first objects that interested me where the figures made out of stone. I had the idea of taking pictures of all of them that I walked past. The next day was a foggy day and I saw the most beautiful sunrays coming through the fog and I grabbed my camera and took some amazing photos to only find that I didn’t have a memory card. I came up with a new phase, YOLMCO “You only leave memory card once.” We took a trip to Bonniux and on that trip of failure we experienced the vineyards, ate grapes and apples. While on that trip I got wonderful pictures of Laucoste, a bus stop that had what looked like water for horses. There was cool caves, awesome trees growing out of the ground, a praying mantis that I got macro pictures of. This experience was a failure for reaching Bonniux but was an awesome photo experience. The best trips are the ones that don’t work as planned but end up being the amazing trip that you needed. The next day was the first day of class for most people except myself. I took advantage of this and explored different areas with a few friends. I took pictures of the snail fields and macro picture of one snail witch peeked my interest of having my final explore the different bugs in France. Capturing pictures of the tiny bugs that people don’t want to get on the ground to see. I have always been interested in the things that are small and never scene by most people. We found this gated place were we saw that was being worked on and also someone who was using the place to live in because we saw hangers. I looked in this place and saw a cool drawing on limestone. It was an amazing piece of art/graffiti that someone created. Then continuing on we saw this guarding frog that was just before this path. Making sure know one passed. I captured a photo of it and it was an amazing photograph. The photograph captured the moment. The next morning I woke up to the sunrise and watched the different colors appear and slowly change. I captured the sunrise as it drastically changed. Then as it was almost over the horizon the fog created a cool look to the mountains and made it a whole new feeling. It was an awesome chance to explore how to capture fog in a unique way. Then after all my classes I found out what I needed to do for the first assignment and explored ways to make a landscape photograph not look cliché. What I found worked for me was leading lines. Capturing very warm scenes or foggy scenes. Making a landscape photograph is difficult to create in a creative way.