Photography class

I'm taking a photography class this year, and I'm soo excited for it! Considering how bad I am at using technology, it was probably a bad idea to take this course, but I'm ready to learn. Two of my friends that are taking it with me are experts at photography. They take pictures in their spare time, going to places in the woods, and driving all over town. They know how to make something seemingly normal, into something absolutely breathtaking. The first one is good at using the camera, she knows how to do everything. The second one knows all the terms, what they mean, and how they change a picture. In comparison, I know nothing, and I sure don't have a manual camera of my own. Mine is the simple click and take one.

Anyway, in this class he gives the unfortunate people like me a camera, and we learn how the camera works. Then we do a series of projects. For the main project you have to pick a theme to take photos of, then you have to take a certain amount of pictures of it per week. At teh end of the class you should have at least five hundred pictures using that theme, and you have to pick your favorites and create a photo book of it. Sounds fun to me!

I didn't know what to do for a theme, I was thinking of world cultures, because my room is full of cultural stuff, but that wasn't a specific enough theme. Then I thought about trees, but since the class end around january, I realized that there wouldn't be leaves on the trees for a long time during the class. My mom suggested native american things, but that would require alot of traveling, and with school and work I wasn't sure I would have the time by the deadlines to do it. Scotland of course was on my mind, it always is, but I don't have the much Scottish stuff. Actually, I have pretty much nothing. I'm going to the highland games at the end of the month, but other than that, well, what would I take pictures on? I wanted something that would inspire me to take pictures, and what could be better than scottish things? As I thought that I remmembered the scarf with the black and white tartan I wear all the time. Then I thought of the mills around here, and of course the highland games. Why not tartans? So that is my theme! Tartans!

I haven't worked with the camera much so I don't have any pictures, but I can promise I will work hard on them and put some extra good ones on here. Be prepared to tap into my mind a little, to see what I see. Since the teacher has alot of students, and there will be alot of pictures, I want somewhere to put the pictures where I can explain them properly, and talk about my thinking, thats where this place comes into play. I hope you enjoy them, I'll put them up as soon as I take them!

Here are some photos I found on the internet with tartans, thoughts?
































--JSparrow