Nico's photojournalism blog

Overview of my trip to the botanical gardens The pond putsdide of the botanical gardens greenhouse. In the background you can also see a small cafe where you can get lunch or just a beverage that might be much needed on a hot day.   The cottage at the botanical gardens, this is something you see towards the back  after progressing through the garden. This structure is the oldest within the entire park. The famous cactus garden, one of the best cactus gardens you can find. It’s inside an insulated greenhouse where the  optimal environment for the cactuses can be mimicked. This allows for the garden to have various different types of cactuses live near each other and also allow people to walk through and see each of them.  An overview of the cactus garden, showing all the types of cacti that live all around the world. By the exit of  the greenhouse is a flower house. Even though it is much smaller it contains very many different types of flow...

It was culture night at Linn Benton Community College and at the center of the venue, was a world map where anyone could go and put a pin marking where they are from, as well as where they want to travel. It was really quite interesting, an event that was celebrating various cultures with food, art and dance had in the middle a map that can give people an idea of how diverse the event was. It was really cool to see how many people of all different backgrounds and interests coming together at our school.

Victor Zevallos is the owner and founder of Llama movers, the number one ranked moving company in Corvallis. Victor is  an incredibly hard working person who fathers two children, runs his own company constantly responding to customers at all hours of the day. Victor wants to change the image of movers by making it an honest, fair and family based Peruvian company. Peru is home for Victor, even though he’s far from it he still takes pride in where he comes from. Llama movers is a term inspired by Llamas that live in Peru, but he also used the red and white native colors of Peru. After each job, he gives his customers a bottle opener that has a Peruvian Llama on it. Victor takes pride in his work, and works incredibly hard. He plans to expand the company into providing cleaning, painting and other services to people. His goal is to help people as much as he can.

Richard Avedon is an American photographer who grew up in a Jewish-Russian family that immigrated to the United States and lived in New York. He first began photography at the age of twelve, started shooting for the young Hebrew men association and his mother facilitated his interest while running her own dress manufacturing business. His mother Anna, helped allow him become interested in fashion and photography as he went on the combine his interests by shooting for various fashion magazines. While his mother encouraged his interests, his father was much more strict and instilled values that money, educations and maintaining physical health are vital to living a full life. During his career, he influenced American fashion immensely, but also took very many socially meaningful portraits of napalm victims during the Vietnam war, capturing the harm that the war caused not only on victims living in Vietnam, but also the emotional damage it did to American people in terms of losing trust i...

I want to photograph Eugene mostly because it is different from what most people in the class are doing. I also think it will be nice because I plan on moving to Eugene for school, so I think it will give me a good opportunity to get familiar with the city. For landmark I could do the art gallery at University of Oregon. The portrait subject I would like to do either the coach Northwest Christian basketball team or a player for the team. I think the biggest challenge will be the art gallery, the doors of the building are a work of art themselves and I want to capture the details of it all.

For my action shot is going to be volleyball players training for a sand volleyball tournament that is coming up. The school has nice sand volleyball courts on campus so preferably when they have practice and the weather is nice. I am really worried that i will have a nice angle, lighting and picture but that i won't be able to capture it as clearly as I want to. I'll try various settings on the camera to try and get it right. For the overall I want to get a shot of the entire game, while the medium I want to get one person being the focus but also have the other players in the background. For my closeup I want to get a shot of somebody hitting the ball or approaching a spike because I feel that is the slam dunk or home run equivalent but in volleyball.

I liked Jameel's photo here because it really did a great job o capturing what she does for work, but also because shes posing for the shot that it is a pleasing photo to look at. Also I think some of the objects near her help me understand what she does, like the tapes on the table next to her.

For my week three assignment I want to shoot my boss in his place of work. His name is Victor Zevallos and he started his own moving company called Llama movers. He wants to change the image of movers by making a friendly, positive and helpful company. He comes from Peru, which inspires the colors of his company being red and white. Victor works six days a week and is ranked as the number one moving company in the Corvallis, Philomath and Albany area. Often times helping senior citizens move and making their life easy. I think the best place to shoot him would be in front of his truck that has his companies name posted on it and with his company t-shirt on that says Llama Movers along the front. I plan on contacting him by texting him when and where he is working then meeting him there.

1) my favorite photo for this term is an action shot of a sand volleyball practice 2)What stands out to me is that she's almost posing for the camera with that pose and you also see her teammates facial expression in the back. But she's also facing the sun which gives it very good lighting and fits the theme of whats going on in the photo. 3)This photo taught me a lot, learning the anticipation of when to start taking photos, but also just how difficult it is to capture sports shots. For a long time i would get upset with the photographers at my sporting events for not getting good photos of me, but now i realize how difficult it is and no longer feel that way. 4)In the beginning i was just learning how to use a camera and mostly taking close up shots to get more familiar but as the term went on I started taking more overall shots. But also I learned to have immense amounts of appreciation for photojournalism.

An overall view of the neighborhood where kids play and often times ride their long-boards down the hill but during Halloween, can tire the kids immensely after walking up and down the hill a couple times. In the background here is a pool, where people can go and swim or sit in the hot tub, but also many people bike along the path that goes around it. This gives the neighborhood a community feel and can bring people together very effectively. People all around the neighborhood often gather for cookouts or bike rides along the trail going through the neighborhood. The local park in this neighborhood where often times young kids go to the playground to enjoy themselves on the swings, slides or in a game of tag. Also, a lot of kids join and play outdoor basketball nearby. People that live within walking distance of the playground often times come with their kids and dogs.

Nico Wolff 5/28/19 Book report My favorite moment in the book about Lynsey Addario is when she was shooting some of the troops in Afghanistan but then ambushed by the Taliban. She talked about how them losing their life there was a crazy experience. She talked about how the soldiers were guys that she had gotten comfortable with. Although this helped her photograph them, it also made it incredibly difficult for her to accept that some of them lost their lives. The main thing that distinguishes her from other photographers is the fact that she would submerse herself within a culture and ultimately become a fly on the wall like no other. Her photographs come from the perspective of someone who’s living through these events, making it all the more personal and intimate compared to other photographers. I understand wanting to accomplish meaningful work in your lifetime, but I think Addario takes it too far and perhaps has some sort of weird desire to accomplish something remarkable...