The story to Flow Through the Park

Photography

10-20-2015     

Alex Rhodes

            My photography assignment was of a park in Galion called East Park. I had chosen this park because this park is the park that my boyfriend, his family, and I take his three year old brother to go play. When we take his brother to the park we see friends and sometimes family. I love going to this park because there is so much you can do there. There is something for everyone like Skateboard Park, Water Park, baseball field, bike track, workout things, and more. I love going to this park because it brings back memories of going to this park and going to my cousin’s birthday parties. I love looking at the trees in the fall because the leaves are so bright and colorful and the trees are starting to become bare. Everything about this park is beautiful. I love the rust on some of the buildings and playground area. It shows character to the park and that it is an old park that still gets new things added in or around it.

            A lot of my photographs are of the playground part of the park. Most of them are close up photos that show all the detail and flow throughout the structures. I think that it is visually more appealing and makes it more interesting. I also want to show the good parts and how interesting a park can be to the eyes. Like something you’ve never seen. Looking at it from a different point of view and closer up.

            I wanted to make my photos into art. I wanted them to be visually arousing and something exiting just like Terry Barrett says. I wanted to make something boring like a park. Editing made my photos look better I believe. I think that it makes the photos more vibrate and more cheerful which is what I love because it makes you want to go to this park. Some of the edited photos make it look like I am trying to advertise for the park. I did not have a particular artist that I referenced for my photos.

             

Flow Though the Park.

Interpreting Photographs...

I believe that this photo represents that nothings perfect but people can have fun no matter what and without judgement. It frames this womens tip of the nose to almost the bottom of her chin. It shows this womens whole smile at an angle. The lighting is making the women look more orange then her natural skin tone. The colors are orange, whites, greys, reds, skin tones, blacks, and browns. You see this big huge smile of this women with plaque at the gumline at the top of her teeth and the lipstick spots that she had not looked and fixed. Her nose is blurred as if its trying to be blend in with her other skin as if it's not there.


This photo makes me think of no ones perfect they put on this stuff to dress them up and make these mask. But this women shows the imperfection. She has a mask on but doesn't want to anymore. That she wants to break out of her mask and be herself show everyone she isn't the person she's showing. This women wants to be herself but is afraid to because she doesn't want to be judged for being herself. She smiles behind the mask she's wearing but in the inside she is sad, lonley, has no confidance, and is upset about the way she is.


She thinks that if she's herself that she will be judged and no one will like her and want to stay in her life. When she starts showing some of her imperfections though she finds out that her friends and family don't care. That they still love her and want her to be herself. She still has doubts though and still hides some for now until later on when she finally let's out all of herself and finds love in all her friends and family. She is getting closer and closer to being her true self.


If you look at this photo as I had said before the imperfections of her plaque and lipstick dots on her teeth helped me figure this story. Also the perfection of her lipstick not smudged anywhere around her lips the perfect color of them. Those things helped me with this story for this paper.