Through a Lens

This week's class was very interesting. We were able to open up our creativity a little bit more by becoming "nature photographers". This exercise gravitated me to explore campus per usual, but this time in detail. The images we were supposed to take were to represent four different themes; light, texture, color, and form in space. For my light image, I walked out and immediately saw the sun poking behind the Callaway Building, yet it had a show on it. I know this is from the window on the building in front of the sign, but it was very contradicting to see the sun behind, yet having a shadow in front.  For texture, I took. full image of just the spikey plants that you see everywhere in the south. Altogether it looks so cool. I loved the ombre of pink in the middle of the flower, and how it has this almost "star point" type of thing going on. I put my camera on flash just to show the great detail that this image has. Lastly form in space, which I took an image of water, caught in space through photography. 

In the text, it talked about constraint relaxation which they stated was, "changing assumptions about the solution representation." Their example for explaining this term showed that instead of choosing a solution that was product-oriented so an item didn't break, instead make a product more attractive to the eye, so that others would want to not break it. This made me realize that the solution to the many problems we face on Earth such as pollution, could be resolved if we went about things a little differently.  Instead of spending money on electrical cars, solar panels, or more recycling bins; the solution could be as simple as everyone embracing what's around them, seeing that it's beautiful, and wanting to keep it alive and well. Or even going back to a more native/ indigenous mindset (before science), where they felt as if all of Earth (human, animal, tree, rock, etc.) had spirits that needed to be treated well in order for things to continuously grow. 

I loved this class 9/10

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