Photographer: Joe Rosenthal

Joe Rosenthal was a World War II photographer, who was on Iwo Jima, and got this incredibly famous photograph of the secong flag raising on Iwo Jima.

The photograph is not staged, Joe is an honest man, and very personable. The flag raising was also filmed, and the footage for that can be found online. He was born on October 9th, 1911 in Washington. He had a big interest in photography, and worked for the San Fransisco Examiner as a staff photographer. When World War II broke out he was sent to cover the Pacific War, where he got his most famous images, including the one above.

Assignment #5 On the Belly/Back!

I LOVED this assignment. I loved just laying on my back or on my belly around the park all by myself feeling like an idiot, sort of hoping that someone would walk by, "are you okay?" haha. It really forced me to see the world from a  new perspective that I wouldn't have noticed before, and it forced me to get really creative to find a good angle or shot to take. I think my most creative shot is probably the leaf in the fence, I was pretty happy about finding this, just as it is shown, I didn't arrange the leaf straight up or anything! One of my favorite shots is the chain, I think its a cool angle, and one that we see every time we go on the swings probably, but never really look twice at. Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment, and I thing I am going to shoot these kind of pictures a lot more often, just for fun :)

Assignment 4.5 - Before and After

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Extra Credit - Halloween Assignment- BOO!!

I love the ghost like shadows, especcially in the third one where there is a ghost creeping up behind her. IN the second picture, I love her posture and the tree showing right through her. Creepy! Basically, I just enjoyed taking pictures of see through people which then equal ghosts. It was a pretty creepy night, my little brother (featured in photo #1) even said he saw a ghost fly over my head. Quote:

"A white thing with a head and a pointy tail just flew over you! It just saw it again!!"

And he never backed down from his tale....