Emma's Summer Escapades!

My summer started off a bit slow with Extended Essay camp, but quickly sped up as I went and visited my grandparents in new jersey for a week and spent 2 days in New York City with my brother. Then I home for a very quick week before i headed to Panama for a month! ... The most amazing experience of my life! However, I was only sporting a less than awful underwater point and shoot as my means of photography. The views were incredible, and the people even better to photograph, however my camera didn't do the job. So here are a few of the somewhat decent memories i managed to capture this summer:

adorable children in Washing Square Park, NYC

View from the Brooklyn Promenade

  

Monkeys on the Panama Canal

Gnobe Bugle Indigenous Girl in Soloy, Panama

Local  Dances

 

 

 

Globos por todos!

Cutest Gnobe Bugle girls ever!

Yakeline, a girl from the kindergarten class I volunteered with

Living in a cloud forest for a month was beyond incredible

The view we looked at every morning :)

Meeena

So, instead of going on exotic adventures like most others did, I stayed home for the summer of 2011 (aside from going a few road trips here and there to visit colleges and such). This summer I worked, volunteered and starting preparing myself for the ACT...not so fun. BUT, I did practice with some film using a lomo camera (holga 135) and it took a LOT of work to get used to since it's really not the camera but how you use it-angle, focus, brightness and all that shazam

just a dead frog i noticed on a morning hike up by Anna Ruby Falls, GA

a note to a loved one at the Vientnam memorial

arriving at Blacksburg,VA to check out Virginia Tech, a sunset and a full moon

rest stop in SC

gas station in SC (+multiple exposure)

my sister on my birthday (taken with my holga and a flash)

NC roads, or what I witnessed for a majority of my travels

Smokestack Lightnin'

Day one of school! Utter success! Tells us about your day in comments below. 
As for photography, I've been messing around with iphone apps and old school photography. Also official, meetings will be in the art room!

-Anastasiya

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'

Here's a lil' summer post on my travels to California with the fam earlier this summer. No road trip this year, but we fit in plenty of driving between Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and our little stop in Three Rivers. Here are a few photos on what we saw along the way.
- Kasha

Experimenting with my fisheye on our drive to see the Hearst Castle.

Street shopping in the old-time section of San Diego.

Walking by the harbor in San Diego.

Beautiful sunset in Three Rivers.

San Francisco's China Town

Sequoia National Park.

New Members!

Recruitment was successful, lets welcome all and any new members to the club!

Additionally, welcome Emma London and Cameron Meyer and myself as club organizers!

as well as our club helpers Kasha Killingsworth and Meena Rezaei!

Anastasiya Zolotukhin

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein

In attempts to get creative with resources, today was day one with CD case shooting. Inspiration? Jerry Uelsmann's black and white prints. My version of his double exposure and non digital editing? Clear CD case covers.

http://www.uelsmann.net/ 

Summer Travels

I just thought I'd share a few photos from this summer. Over a period of several weeks, I drove west with my family and visited a number of national and state parks. I'm also slowly adding photos from the trip to my Flickr.

- Cameron

 

Yosemite

 Yellowstone

 

                                                           Redwood Forest

Breaking the Ice

Since the attempts to further our school's photography club are still fresh, here is my first post to showcase some photos. Very recently, as in yesterday, I arrived home from a month of traveling in Europe. It was like my own Eat Pray Love novel only I made my way to first Italy, then France and finally Ukraine. It's very clear that I need not mention the number of photo opportunities in Europe, or anywhere other than home for that matter. Not only did I have the most life changing four week vacation, but here are some of my most memorable photos from the trip.

Views from Geneva and Italy where I got the chance to take tango classes

Living creatures of France

Guess...

Another little creature that was found in the pottery shop I had the honor of working at.


What did everyone else do this summer?! Let me know


Anastasiya