Choice Sheets

Next year I think that I would like to join the yearbook class, it seems like a lot of fun helping design the yearbook and even having your own article in it.  Looking at the past yearbooks I always liked how it has been design by the individual students customizing their very own page, so i want to be able to do the same and have my own creative contribution to the school yearbook

Yearbook Article

http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/articleid/348180/newspaperid/3206/Keep_Austins_Food_Weird.aspx

Newspaper Article

Abandoned Theme Parks

1.)  Of all the abandoned theme park i think the one i would like to visit and photograph would be the one located in Takakanonuma Greenland, Hobara, Japan.  The park has a very creepy, foggy, and haunted look to it.  This caught my attention because it seems like the perfect set for a horror film, it really looks haunted and abandoned. Its rusty, foggy, wet, broken down, and has those creepy wax figures everywhere.


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Takakanonuma

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• Haunted New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital
• Niagra Falls
• Denbigh Asylum
• Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans
• Alcatraz

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Denbigh Asylum - By: Shepy

5.)  I think it would be fun to photograph the Denbigh Asylum because I am a very big fan of haunted and spooky places, so this place definitely caught my attention.  The fact that it is an abandoned mental institution in Britain just makes everything even creepier and more interesting, knowing that this massive building house thousands of mentally ill people who received harsh treatment and care just gives the place a very negative energy and vibe flowing through every corridor.  I would like to capture photos from inside the rooms of a few individual patients to try and see their point of view of the institution.

6.)  In order for me to actually visit and photograph this location I would first off have to catch a flight to Britain.  Find a hotel for my partners and I who i will take with me to the Aslyum because being there alone would not be fun because its an experience that should happen within a group of people.  I would give everyone a camera and try and make myself one of the patients of the institution and try and get shots from what there point of view might have been and told my partners to do the same.  Before hand of course i would have to get permission of the current owner of the building or land where the building is located.

Portraits and Self Portraits

This photo specifically caught my eye because i can almost immediately tell the story behind the picture.  The teenage girl growing up on a family farm in Texas sitting on what might had been one of her grandparents cars.  How do i know she is from Texas?; The football jersey she is wearing.  I liked this photo because the photographer made it very easy for the viewer to tell what he wanted the main subject to be, and sort of put a story behind it.  I would rather use this self portrait method than the professional portrait method below.

This photo caught my eye because i seems to have some humor behind it, with the guy posing as Carlos Santana.  I think this photo could be used to promote Santana's music or the culture that he is involved in, kind of a hippie or musician lifestyle.  All the colors in this photo keep the viewers eyes focused on the photo, because it isnt boring! There's not much going on, but there's still alot for the eyes to look at.