This is a photo by James Nachtwey and I found it on http://maryt.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/nachtway1.jpg. I really like this because it shows the cultural side of his people and race and religion. It shows that he is very serious about it and his emotion is serious and concentrated shown from his facial expression. I really like this because there's the person, the smoke, the picture, etc. It looks like a funeral because there's a picture of a person and the praying but I'm not sure because it has the elements of a Chinese funeral except less fancy. You can tell he's the main subject because your eyes are drawn straight to him because of his facial expression and how everything else isn't that clear or focused.

This is a photo by W. Eugene Smith and I got it at http://chasearoni.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/weugenesmithwalk_4.jpg. I really like the lighting of this photo how everything is black and the only thing bright is the circle with the kids in the middle. It immediately tells you what the subject is. I really like it in black and white because if it was color then you wouldn't be able to tell the black and white so sharply. I just really like how the two people are kids and not adults. It shows the innocence and the feeling of not being in the world for a long time yet. I really like it. It makes me remember when I was a kid and how I would like to play and search for different places not to far from where my parents were.

I really like this photo by Cindy Sherman and I got it from http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/snapshot/snapshotinfo-lg.jpg. I really like this photo because it shows that she's kind of shy because she doesn't want people to see her facial expression and how she feels and looks. I also like how the background and the subject are not fighting for attention; how the background is a plain field of grass and fence. I like how she's the only thing that's in focus showing us that she is the subject. I also like how the photo is in black and white because that's more simple. Color would have ruined it because it wouldn't have shown her shyness as well and more simply.

I really like this photo by a Japanese person and I found it at http://deeplinking.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/barer.jpg. I didn't realize it was a book until I looked at it more closely. I thought it was just paper put together, and I thought it was really cool how you don't realize what it is until you really look at it. I like how there's two colors to the picture: black and white. The color is very simple and I like how it's shaped like it's round. I like the abstract feel of it that you think it is when you first look at it. It's very cool.

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I really like this photograph of the building by Jim Korpi and I found it at http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/436551037_0653a31c36.jpg. I really like this photo because it's very simple and I like the mystery of it all. I like how the fog and cloudy skies are surrounding the building and how the windows go from big to small. It's a good composition factor of perspective. I like how the angle of the building is in the center and how the building is in a specific shape. I love how the building fades out into the rest of the photo. It seems very dark and mysterious and it wouldn't be the same if it wasn't black and white because it only makes me feel that way because of its color.

My Project Proposal

I want my project proposal to be a day in the life of green apples. I will get a dark green apple and a light green apple like I did in my project of emotions. I will do it from when they are in bed to the darker green one working, the lighter green one doing chores, the kids represented by mini green apples doing homework. I want to portray a normal life of my family, but incorporated into apples instead of humans to make the project more unique and more unexpected. I will think about what my family does daily and do the same thing for the apples. I want this to be a fun thing but I want my viewers to view it as a unique and unexpected story. I want the story to be simple but different. I want viewers to feel fun and but realize how important everyday things are and how lucky we are to be able to live our lives like we are. Even though it's portrayed through something else, it sends out the same message. I also want people who feel like their parents don't love them to know how lucky they are and that their parents really do love them and that they should stay close to them. They should realize that family life is important and they shouldn't just put it aside like it's something that should be given to them.