Ava Nielsen's Photojournalism Blog

Patrick Felix splashes around in the water in Miami, Florida on August 26th for his grandson, Jimmy's 6th birthday. Patrick spends a lot of time down at the beach and has claimed he finds sand in the pants "soothing and cleansing." Martha Ruby plays her accordion and smiles while she still has teeth, on Sunday afternoon, October 14th, on her property in Virginia to raise money for her neighboring Elementary schools. Martha has been playing the accordion since the stone age, and is always finding ways to raise money for the kids, giving her an excuse to pinch their cheeks. Granny Smith celebrates her  Quinceañera again a few years late, at the Driskill Hotel on January 13th, to celebrate it again with her high school sweetheart who died in 1941. Granny Smith visits the Driskill often to have conversations with her boyfriend whom "haunts" people who stay in the hotel.

TOPIC: Music RULE OF THIRDS This photo is rule of thirds because the microphone is most definitely the main subject, but it's not super boring or mainstream since it isn't directly in the middle of the photo. LEADING LINES The strings of the guitar are the leading lines in this photo, making them the main focus of this photograph. While everything else is blurred they are focused on. SYMMETRY AND PATTERNS (repetition) This photo shows the set up of a stage during a concert. As you can see the screens and lights they installed and set up are symmetrical giving it not only an enjoyable view, but balance. FRAMING There isn't much music shown in the photo, but if you look closely there is a concert going on on the small stage on the baseball field. I REALLY like the framing in this photo- having the whole stadium as a huge frame to the small stage is a perspective that I found  very unique and creative. SIMPLICITY/BACKGROUND I chose this photo f

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1. I would really like to take my camera to the abandoned Six Flags up in New Orleans. I would really want to go here because it looks sort of like a run-down town and the rides and games still look somewhat in tact and would make really creepy and cool photos. Also in general, New Orleans is known as a pretty creepy place with all the voodoo and stuff so it just makes the scene ten times scarier and freaky. OTHER UNUSUAL PLACES TO PHOTOGRAPH Amazon Jungle Abandoned ruins Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee Burning Man music festival White Sands, New Mexico Nick Garbutt has taken many photos in the Amazon Jungle, including this one. I think it would be a really great experience to shoot in the Amazon. There are so many incredible creatures and species living there and things you have never seen before. Another thing is the weather, it is very wet and humid in the Amazon but you never know what is coming, because the surprise of a certain type of weather can make

1. I was already pretty aware of all the poaching of elephants in Africa, but I did not know that lions and other animals were such victims as well. It kills me to know that all the beauty created up in Africa is getting killed to the point of extinction. It was really cool to see someone who really appreciates the animals, and so passionate about photographing them. He doesn't care for the crazy action shots, as much as just capturing animals at rest, doing their own thing. 2. I really like this photo because there isn't much to it, but you can also see al the dust and sand hitting the elephant's face and the reaction. 3. Brandt used simplicity for this photo, as you can see the Elephant is the main focus, and the subject isn't taken by anything else in the photo. Although you can see the silhouette of the mountains in the back, which is another reason I really like this photograph. 4. Nick Brandt uses a Pentax 67 System and a 120mm lens. 5. Nick is very intere

The reason Lee Friedlander's photos really stood out to me, was because they all had something different to them. They were not all the same theme and each had a really interesting thing about them. My two favorite photos of Friedlander's are Montana and Philadelphia. MONTANA I really like this photo because it is taken at an angle and perspective that I would have come up with. It is capturing so many things at once, but the photo isn't chaotic. You see the environment he is in, with the wooden fence and trees, but then you also see the rolling hills behind him through the mirror. It is a very wonderful photograph. When I look at this photo, I see a car stranded in the hills of nowhere, stopping at a sign looking like there might be a sign of life. I see a ragged, worn down fence sensing you might be near farmlands. I smell burned tires, after racing down the country roads. I smell gasoline leaking from the bottom of engine. I hear tires on a gravel roa

1. A theme that we could do here at school, could probably be sports, or fine arts, or academics or something of that sort. A theme we could do outside of school could be nature, people of austin, or the community around us. 2. We should definitely NOT only use phone cameras. One- they aren't accessible to everybody. Two- they aren't as good as quality as regular cameras. Plus regular cameras have a ton more effects you can play around with unlike on a cell phone.  3. I would probably want to put our mural up by the kennel or somewhere in the courtyard (a visible area) because both of those places are very populated hang out spots, so everyone would see it.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Friedlander https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/lee-friedlander    Lee Friedlander was born in 1934 in Washington. At the age of 14, Lee started photographing his surroundings. People, places, humor, etc. He went to school for a short period of time at the Art Center School in Los Angeles.    After school, he then moved to New York, and frequently took photos of the well known jazz musicians Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. He then grew a title as a popular known street artist.    Friedlander made his big debut when a very famous man named John Szarkowski included Lee in an exhibition called "New Documents." Friedlander won many awards including the Hasselblad Award.    Lee's first book published was called "Self-Portrait" in 1970, followed up by another book called In the Picture: Self-Portraits, 1958-2011 . He also published a book showing a series of national monuments named The American Monument.     The Muse