Rosales Interview

I interviewed Virginia Medrano-Rosales and her husband Leo Rosales for an assignment for journalism 121

Other photo blogs

K, for our last assignment i had to choose a couple of blogs which are similar to mine. The first one i chose is this: http://www.dianevarner.com/index.php?showimage=484.
The first thing you will notice is that it is all photos. It is a photo blog meaning that the "writer" of the blog simply takes photos and then edits and arranges them. This is quite different from my blog because in mine i comment about my photos, instead of only giving them titles. I do this mainly to express feelings and observe the progress of my photo taking ability. However, this person is doing their blog purely for their love of photography, which is in my opinion a more pure reason than mine.
Another thing you will notice is that the photos are like a billion times better than mine. This could be due to many factors such as a better camera, better editing equipment, but also a better sense of what is photoworthy.

http://despod.blogspot.com/
This next blog is much closer to mine in concept, but is, sadly enough, not as good in execution. This person takes alot more photos than they have words, but there still aren't many photos! I think, from an amateur's perspective, that he should either take more photos or write more on the photos he chooses.

This excercise is hopefully going to help me choose my direction. I want a different kind of blog than either of these. I will use good singular photos, along with lots of text pertaining to the photos. I guess i can improve by taking better photos, hopefully i'll be able to write more on them.

Hopefully easier to pronounce than that guys name...

Yep, another retouched photo. I think i did a good job on that, which is a definite sign of improvement, but i don't think i did such a good job on choosing a good photo. My plan of simply taking photos as i go along hasn't been working out so well. Possibly because i don't take enough, and possibly because i don't go out enough. I think i'll try to rectify that from now on.

As for this photo, the most interesting thing about it is the grass. It is absolutely green, and looks like an incredible expanse, inside of the context of the photo. But the grass really isn't the pictures focus. The grass provides a background for the tree, which is busy in the middle lookin majestically alone. Majestic because it's large and seems like it belongs there, but alone because it's the only one, obviously. There's not much else i think to say about this photo.

I wish i could get pictures like this: http://html.beksinski.com.pl/images/galeria/fantastyczny3/79_01000.jpg, but those aren't real. I love this guy's artwork though. He started out with painting but then moved to graphic art. I can't remember how i found it.... but here's his bio on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beksinski, man polish names are hard to pronounce.