Photography Ethnography

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To me, photography is capturing portrait of a memory, person or thing; It is a creative style of expression. I chose photography because you can get to know someone just from seeing what they shoot and how they shoot. Every position that I have in school activities have to do with photography. I started getting into photography back when I was in elementary school and I started off with disposable cameras. You can learn a lot about who I am and what I like from seeing what I shoot. As one of my favorite youtubers once said, “Do what you love and love what you do”. I spent most of my free days from work at the city taking pictures over the summer. I like taking pictures of buildings, animals, plants and doing portraits of people. It’s an amazing feeling when people who have more experience with photography tell me that I have been improving a lot. I run a blog where I can show my work to others. …show more content…

I am the public affairs officer for JROTC, I am historian for student council and I am in yearbook club. My job as a PAO is to write articles and take pictures of the jrotc events throughout the year; If we write a good article, it gets published to either “Dog TImes”,”Daily Herald”, or “Lake County News Sun”. As a student council Historian, I am in charged of the honor book and taking pictures at the events hosted by student council. I was given the opportunity to attend an IASC state convention in Springfield this year thanks to student

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