B.A.#57

my family's traditions:
-the weekend after thanksgiving, we put up our Christmas tree. after, we go get ice cream. then, come home and watch The Polar Express and drink hot chocolate.
-every Christmas, usually my sister and i wake up first, so we go and wake up mom and dad.. then rush to open our presents. and when we are done, my dad makes French Toast for breakfast. then we play with our new "toys". then, we have a Christmas party for my dad's side of the family at our house.
i love our little Christmas traditions. <3

B.A.#56

im still waiting on mug shots to plug into the high school.
i've been tagging,uploading, and editing pictures...
no Qs
:)

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DOROTHEA LANGE:

-Dorothea Lange was a natural photographer in the truest sense because she lived, in her words, "a visual life." She could look at something: a line of laundry flapping in the wind, a pair of old, wrinkled, work-worn hands, a bread-line, a crowd of people in a bus station, and find it beautiful. Her eye was a camera lens and her camera--as she put it--an "appendage of the body." During her last illness, as a friend sat near her bed, she suddenly said to him "I've just photographed you." Lange had engaged in this camera-less sort of photography for decades, from the time she was a young girl, and it served as both the foundation of her art education and her first apprenticeship.

-Bored and disillusioned with school, she would often cut class and go walking through her neighborhood, the lower-east side of New York. She would make herself as unobtrusive as possible, and look at things and people. Down-and-outs of the Bowery, bustling marketplaces, the Jewish ladies in their schechtels, or black wigs.

-Lange was born May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey, where two painful events left indelible marks on her life. -When she was seven years old, she contracted polio, which left her with an obvious limp. The neighborhood children made fun of her and even her mother, Joan, acted ashamed of her crippled daughter.

-Then in 1907, when she was twelve, her father walked out on the family. They neither saw or heard from him again. They moved into the home of Sophie Lange, the children’s maternal grandmother, and great-aunt Caroline. Joan took a job as a librarian in Manhattan. It was during long walks through downtown Manhattan to meet her mother after school that Dorothea discovered a wealth of visual imagery and decided that she wanted to take photographs.

by Dorothea Lange

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B.A.#52

FINISHED :)

CHRISTMAS JOKES

What would a reindeer do if it lost its tail?
He’d go to a re-tail shop for a new one!

Why couldn't the skeleton go to the Christmas Party?
He had no body to go with!

Why is Rudolph always wet?
Because he’s a rain-deer!

Why does Scrooge love all of the reindeer?
Because every buck is dear to him!

What do you get if you cross an apple with a Christmas tree?
A pineapple!

What do you get if cross a snowman and a Vampire?
Frost bite!

What do you get if Santa goes down the chimney when a fire is lit?

Crisp Cringle

What is the difference between the Christmas alphabet and the ordinary alphabet?

The Christmas alphabet has NO L (Noel)

http://www.theholidayspot.com/christmas/jokes/

http://holidays.kaboose.com/xmas-games-riddles.html

Photography Hints Part 1

  Here are some helpful hints 1-4 to help make you be a better photographer:

  1.Rules of third-Imagine that your image is divided into nine equal segments by two vertical and two horizontal lines. Try to position the most important things in your scene along these lines, or at the points where they intersect. Doing so will add balance to your photo.

  2.Balancing elements-Placing your main subject off-center, when using the rule of thirds, creates a more interesting photo, but it can leave an empty space in the scene which can make it feel dull. You should balance the 'weight' of your subject by including another object of lesser importance to fill the space.

  3.Balance and patterns-We are surrounded by balance and patterns, both natural and man-made, and they can make for very eye-catching works of art. Another great way to use them is to break the balance or pattern in some way, by straining the eye to the main point in the scene.

  4.View point-Before photographing your subject, take time to think about where you will shoot it from. Our view point is forced on the main piece of our photo, and it can greatly affect the message that the shot expresses. Rather than just shooting from eye level, consider photographing from above, at ground level, the sides, the back, far away, close up, and so on…  

  Hope these help! And I can’t wait for part two of this column! (:

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5. whats in the jar
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