A Field of Depth

My theme for this project was to photograph the various flowering plants around my house. It being spring made this quite enjoyable.


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Purply, Pinkish White Blossom

f-stop: 5.6

shutter speed*:1/150

Angel and a Flower

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/350

Crab Apple Blossoms

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/400

Stand Tall

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/250

1/4 B.P. (Before Plums)

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/250

Purple Plant

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/60

Redbud Flowering

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/350

Float

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/80

Monarchs On Thier Throne

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Through the Garden

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/300

Peer into Nature

f-stop:2.8

shutter speed*:1/80

Apple Blossom

f-stop:5.6

shutter speed*:1/210

This photo is not part of the portfolio but I wanted to put it here anyway.

This is my dog Coco. We found him as a stray near Chapel Hill Mall and lured him into our car using a trail of bologna.

Photographer Report

1. Margaret Bourke-White
2. 1904-1971
3.Bourke-White started her job in journalism in the 1920's, when few women were in that field. However as the 1920's progressed women became more and more commonplace in photo-journalism. Bourke-White completed college at cornell and moved to Cleveland where she opened her own studio. Later, in 1929 her work caught the attention of Henry Luce who hired her as the photographer for fortune magazine. This lead her to Russia where she conducted a series of photographs of life under communist rule. Her success at Fortune led to Life Magazine hiring her. Her credentials grew as the magazine gained national fame. During WWII she and many other women covered the war from the front lines through a series of photographic narratives called "They Called It Purple Heart Valley" After the war she focused on humanitarian issues. In 1956 she was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. She continued photography until her death in 1971.

4.Bourke-White's work form her early career focuses mainly on images of the industrial power of the United States. This is best shown in her photograph of the Fort Peck Dam. Most of her later work focuses on people. Whether it be the soldiers fighting for us(WWII), life in soviet Russia, or the plight of the poor, she captures it all.

5. What attracted me to her work is how most of it (pre-humanitarian) is of stuff, not people. One of my favorites of her that I have seen is the one of a b-36. I love how they convey a sense of raw power. 

6.

Electric Train Locomotive, New York,
New Haven, & Hartford R.R.,
1939

B-36 at High Altitude, 1951

Fort Peck Dam, Montana, 1936


Pouring the heat

7. sources
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0301/pcox.html

http://artfiles.art.com/5/ncr/p/LRG/27/2700/1HQUD00Z/margaret-bourke-white-molten-steel-cascading-in-otis-steel-mill-in-historic-pouring-the-heat-photo.jpg

http://www.leegallery.com/photographers/63-margaret-bourke-white-american-1904-1971-

Pick your own Project: Landscape

My theme for this project was to capture the beauty of nature...with some human elements intertwined. (Or in some cases a lot of human elements)

Glorious

f-stop:4.2 Shutter Speed:1/45

Saying Goodbye to Put-in-Bay

(this one I wanted to put in here because I absolutely love it)

f-stop:7.6 Shutter Speed:1/800

Sun Pillar

f-stop:2.8 Shutter Speed:1/105

Downtown Greensboro

f-stop:5.6 Shutter Speed:1/350

Celestial Rays

f-stop:5.6 Shutter Speed:1/1000

Pilot Mountain

f-stop:4.7 Shutter Speed:1/250

Sunrise from the Hill

f-stop:4.2 Shutter Speed:1/400

The Ohio River at 75 Miles Per Hour

f-stop:2.8 Shutter Speed:1/180

Overcast Day on the Hill

f-stop:5.6 Shutter Speed:1/210

Cliff Face

f-stop:2.8 Shutter Speed:1/250

The Approaching Storm

f-stop:8 Shutter Speed:1/320

First of its Kind

f-stop:5.6 Shutter Speed:1/1600