movie- Sally Mann

I think Sally Mann's work is very unique. I liked hearing the whole story about her and her father. She seems to admire him a great deal. A quote I can not forget that was stated of her father, was that he was not afraid of death. The pictures she took of her children were very interesting. I really liked the way they turned out, because it really did give a sense of hope to close the death gallery. The pictures of death is something I believe everyone should deal with. She stated that the corpse is nothing but a body, and the soul is what "you" really are. When you pass away, so does your soul and the corpse is left. It is something that we need to let go of, and what better way to help people understand that than through pictures. A negative aspect about society and art today is that it is all about money. If it doesn't make money, it is extremely hard to get your work up. I think showing this issue during the movie was a great highlight. It helped show reality in the world. I am glad she got the chance to display her work in a gallery in the end. I can actually feel the excitement she does when I watched that part. 

What I really liked about the face portraits and the kind of camera she used is its uniqueness. When you take pictures, it usually only take one second. The camera she uses requires you to stay still for a certain amount of minutes. I don't think I could ever model for those kinds of cameras, because I move too much. 

quiz 1

Tierra Miguel

Monday was our first field trip. I got to school around 1:45, because I was scared that if I didn't come early enough, I wouldn't get a camera. Luckily, there was a couple cameras there. I checked mine out and waited on campus until all of my carpool members got to school. I texted them to see what time and where they wanted to meet. They finally arrived at school and we headed off to the Tierra Miguel Farm. I was really surprised that we didn't make one U-Turn the whole road trip. I knew if I drove, we would've made at least one. 

When we got there, there was a presentation going on about foods. The sun was starting

to go down, so we decided to start walking around the farm so we could take pictures. A man who

 works at the farm, named Johnathan, was our tour guide. 

We started our walk around the far

m near the strawberries and moved towards the kohlrabi. When we got to kohlrabi, I thought they looked like a cross between a red onion and a carrot. Students got to taste some and I saw some like it, and some not. It sounded like an apple when they bit into it, but when I asked what it tasted like, no one could give me a definite answer. Some said it tasted like cabbage, others said it tasted like and onion.  

We moved on towards another plant on the farm. I tried eating the sprout leaves, and it wasn't

 that appetizing nor was it horrible. I was just hungry, and had to eat something, so I took another set for the next part of the walk.

It was starting to get really dark and we ended up seeing more kohlrabi. 

We passed by some carrots on the way back where we started.

Those were the best carrots I've ever had. It might have been because I was really hungry, but everyone else said they were really good too. The skies looked really beautiful that afternoon. It looked like it just came out of a painting. It was probably the nicest sky I've ever seen in my life. This was a great field trip. I enjoyed it a lot.