5 Image Stories

Thoughts on the 5 image story assignment...

This assignment was something I was excited for! I was looking forward to being creative and taking pictures. I have seen this assignment before but I have never attempted it myself. I was torn on what I wanted to do and had some different ideas... My first idea was to take my nieces to a pumpkin patch and show the story of them picking out their first pumpkin. Then I started thinking of other things to photograph with them and I ended up just playing with them and documenting an average day, I was disappointed at first because I didn't get to do my original idea but it ended up being beautiful in its simple kind of way.

Then I was thinking about throwing clay on a pottery wheel and documenting the cycles that the clay takes to go from clay to finished piece. Ceramics is a personal hobby of mine and I thought it would be nice to show something personal and also a different art form.

I ended up using the glass blowing because it was such an amazing opportunity and something so unique. I love the process and it is also something that looks really sweet in photographs!

So I was kind of all over the place with this assignment but really enjoyed it! I found it so interesting to see other classmates and how they approached this project. Some students told a sports story, others were more serious topics such as smoking and their pregnancy stories... It is always fascinating to see how people approach a project. I would have never thought of those ideas and it was really nice to see all the different solutions.