Weekly Blog Post 7

I'm not particularly interested in photography as an art form. Just as I tend to effectively be a passive learner, I am also often a passive observer in the sense that I watch the whole whilst thinking of else. In my honors creativity seminar we undertook a small photo-documenting project, given a place and required to take a certain number of pictures for several categories, like flora, building, or even sounds (take for instance my picture of my shadow while riding a bike). I left the project with relatively the same view of photography I took into it, that when it comes to visuals, I don't like to linger much longer than the short time in which I absorb the information. Although I may pause to examine an interesting detail or just admire the whole, I prefer to keep moving along, whether it be from a zoo to an art gallery. In the same way that I don't think or remember in narratives, neither do I do so in terms of pictures. Although I'm a very visual thinker, I'm also very conceptual in that thinking.

Although I don't know the "technicals" of photography as an art form, I do know how to handle a camera and digital images. The camera end of photography is hardly a problem with today's modern, digital cameras. We also worked digitally with our photos (for my creativity seminar), managing contrast and other levels to improve the picture quality. Finally, even an average amount of computer experience is more than enough to manage and store the photos after they've been taken.