Category: Weekly Blogs!

This week was laid back and pretty short since we had Friday off. I started learning all about formulating a photo essay for my final project! I have been looking through books like “Lens On Life” and “The Best of Photojournalism” which have given me examples of how to write a story with photos. I…

This week was super fun and very eventful. I feel like during the weeks we have class 3 out of the 5 days everything gets more interesting. This week I finished up editing and prepping for my next unit which I will start next week. Part of the prep was interviewing athletes and coaches about…

Ten weeks! Holy moly thats a long time. This study has gone by so fast but I have certainly had so much fun! This past week was a pretty calm one, I edited pictures from the boys lacrosse game against PD and made sure to get them to the team so they could share them.…

This week was full of planning for my unit, but other than it was a pretty normal week. I planned out my calendar for the next month and filled it with all the fun activities I will be doing. I also met with Mrs Effron for our biweekly meeting and we talked about so photos…

This week was yet again full of learning! This week I mainly spent my class time watching Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film. This documentary dives into the extraordinary life of Ansel Adams and deeply analyzes his work. It was so interesting to learn about specific figureheads in the photojournalistic industry and I think Ansel is…

Another great week and the first full week of Unit 2! This week I continued reading The State of News Photography: The Lives and Livelihoods of Photojournalists in the Digital Age and actually finished it on Thursday. Overall, I think this study was super interesting and I learned a lot about the lives of photojournalists.…

This week was the first full week of Unit 2! I have been editing photos from Friday’s Senior Night and I have been able to implement some tips Mrs Effron gave me in our last meeting. They have really enhanced my work and I am excited to work on it some more. This week I…

This week was the start of a new Unit! In the month of February I will be studying what it takes to be a photojournalist and who the big names in the field are. This week I worked on finalizing my February calendar and I also began setting up an interview with Tamara Lackey that…

This week was laid back because we didn’t have many classes, but it was still super fun. I finished Derrick Price’s chapter of “Surveyors and Surveyed” and I learned about Associations that hired photographers to photograph daily life in the 1930s. I learned about how photographers left the world of politics and became more open…

Another great week I have to say! This week I started to watch the series “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger. I learned all about how photography made art accessible to everyone and that it allowed us to see things that weren’t directly in front of us. I also began the chapter “Surveyors and Surveyed”…