To be honest, this is my first assignment for the YouShow I feel like I actually completed from start to finish. While writing my previous blog post was a whole lot of fun, I thought it might be time for me to get down to business and learn about blogging. As you may have noticed from my previous post, taking photos and embedding images is something I haven’t had much experience with. In fact, today’s post will be my first attempt at embedding photos within the text of my blog. So without further ado, this is my own interpretation of the Unit 2 YouShow activity – “Go on a Photo Safari”.
I wish my photo safari was as exciting as the title of the assignment, unfortunately I didn’t go on any actual safari. I limited my safari to within my office own sardine-like office space at work. I thought it would be a good challenge for me to examine my surroundings in the different ways that the assignment was looking for.
1. Start time of my photo safari
2. Capturing as many photos as I could over the next 15 minutes
- Make an ordinary object look more interesting, almost supernatural
Alien Coffee Travel Mug - Take a photo that makes use of converging lines
Natural Converging Lines
- Take a photo dominated by a single color
Happy Yellow Plant Pot - Take a photo of something at an unusual angle
This door at an unusual angle - Take a photo of two things that do not belong together
Two things that unfortunately do not belong together. Me, and Tim Horton’s tasty pastries - Take a photo that represents the idea of “creativity”
A creative art piece - Take a photo that expresses a human emotion
My roommates dog – Harvey expressing the human emotion of happiness better than I could ever hope to - Take a photo that emphasizes mostly dark tones or mostly light ones.
Rich colours on my dark pashmina - Make a photo that is abstract, that would make someone ask, “Is that a photograph?”
Is that a photograph? This one was tough - Take a photo of an interesting shadow.
This one was also tough. Can you guess what is casting the shadow? - Take a photo that represents a metaphor for complexity.
This is my complex desk mug. It represents the complex variety of tools I need to do my work effectively. Not pictured: my wonderful computer - Take a photo of someone else’s hand (or paw)
My desk next door neighbour Tim (author of the Tim-Bits blog)
3. My end time
The final piece.
Looking back on taking the photos for this post, the most challenging photos to take were the one that wasn’t supposed to look like a photograph, and the interesting shadow. Since I set my own limitation up to take all of these photos within the confines of my office it was a challenge to find things that fell within those parameters in the activity. The time limit also was a challenge, as I’m sure if given more time I could have found many more interesting things to take photos of. Alas, there is still a task list as long as my arm to complete by the end of today, and as such I could not devote countless hours to completing this assignment.
I hope you enjoyed my photos. Stay tuned for my next post!
