This week we were asking to do a photo reflection on our previous/current experience with photography. I never took a lot of photos until10th grade of high school. At my school we had to do end of the year assignments that we basically spent the four months prior creating. One of my best friends, Lindsey, […]

My experience with photography has been pretty minimal. I rarely ever took and photos or videos before I got my iphone about four years ago. When I first got an iphone I used the camera to take some photos, but not many. As the years passed I became more familiar with the phone and began … Continue reading Photoreflection: Response to photography resources

This week we had to pick and additional 6 stars of visual assignments to do. I did a 3 star one showing a tour of my room and the second one I am going to do is worth 3 1/2 stars. This assignment bank post is called splash the color. This assignment tells you to use an […]

In addition to the other visual assignment bank posts we had to do this week, we also had to pick six more stars of visual assignments to do. For my first of the extra stars I did a three star assignment called room tour. For this I took four separate pictures of different angles of my […]

One of the visual assignment bank posts we had to do this week was to recreate a famous movie scene. Of course the first movie that came to mind to recreate in a picture was the Titanic, but I decided to go with something a little different. This assignment instructs you to simply recreate the picture and […]

For today’s daily create we had to make an image that emphasizes the difference in size of two similar images. As soon as I saw this I knew exactly what I was going to do. For Christmas last year my boyfriend gave me a 5ft bear as part of my gift and 4 years before that he […]

Today’s daily create challenge was to make an image that emphasizes the size difference of two similar objects. So, I chose two books, one small and one large. I feel the size of the book isn’t necessarily important. It is the information, knowledge, and the story within the book that is valuable.

This three star assignment was to take an image from the daily shoot and write a haiku about it. After searching through a few images, I chose this one because it seemed the easiest to relate to the western theme. I don’t think I have ever seen a western movie that they didn’t eat beans […]

This 3 star writing assignment was to write a story in alphabet.  The challenge is to write a story using a word starting with each consecutive letter, the more sense it makes, the better.  X is a real problem though, and there are only two ways around it that I can see…  Either forego literal […]

This two star  assignment was to write a terrible death ending for a choose your own adventure style book. It was a great assignment to incorporate the western theme; no shortage of deaths in gun battles in westerns. It was fun to take a typical western finale scene and create a silly twist that meant […]

Your Hopes, Dream and Fears is an assignment to write a letter to myself in ten years, that I might be able to look back and reflect upon it later when I read it.  I am old enough that I think my goals are static, whether I achieve them or not is another matter, but […]

Merrell Shale is a mean looking but warm spirited man in his late thirties. At present, he is a gambler, but his outward appearance deliberately reflects his more humble beginnings. He is the son of a miner, his mother died from cholera at a young age. His father worked very hard to provide for his […]

This week, I spent the first portion of my time revising my website. I used a WordPress site for a previous class, but shy of distinguishing between pages and posts and adding a timeline to our page, we did very little to flush it all out. The first things I did this week was to […]

The above curve represents, in Kurt Vonnegut’s mode of story analysis, a representation of the story, “Moment of Vengeance” by Elmore Leonard. In the very early story, they allude to an earlier elevation of the protagonist. I decided to include that because it was discussed, although the associated action was already finalized. Afterward, there is […]

Hi y’all this is the work I completed this past week. Daily Creates: @ds106dc #tdc1480 #ds106 This is my cattle brand! Its my initials- AMS pic.twitter.com/pYYJWfmUfT — Andrew Slupek (@aslupek40) January 28, 2016 @ds106dc #tdc1481 #ds106 Hey Y'all, not much more western than the class avatar as my computer wallpaper right? pic.twitter.com/Y4oLqSU1GE — Andrew Slupek […]

These were my seven photos I was to take. I began my Photoblitzer challenge in my home at 11:15. I then took a rustic looking photo of a few posters on my wall in my house in black and white. I then took a picture of this Coca-Cola wall hanger that I got in Egypt […]

What a busy week this one was. Time management is key to success in this class. I now realize this. For this week I completed a couple assignments: the monologue for a toolshed, the alphabet story and the letter to my younger self. Monologue I believe the monologue of a household tool was the most […]

Kyle Masala was inducted into the 37th infantry regiment of Kentucky in September of 1865. He was born September of 1848 in Kentucky. Growing up in Kentucky, Kyle devoted his life to the family ranch. In his late teens he joined the Union. After leaving the army in his thirties, Kyle Masala grabbed his Colt […]

Well, technically its not my pet but this is a selfie of myself, my brother and a turkey we found in our yard. He obviously wasn’t very interested in taking this picture with us.   2 Stars.

In this photo I cropped my pet parrot into the UMW campus, right here he is sitting on top of George Washington Hall.   I also had trouble cropping my pet into this picture on campus. I couldn’t fully integrate my bird into the sky.   4 Stars.

In this picture, I cropped in pictures of several of my friends and myself as the “Real Brady Bunch.”  Those other guys are fakes.   This was a pretty tough assignment, I had difficulty trying to adjust the background to fit correctly with the pictures that I imported.

This picture is of a couple that met on the Internet in 2016. They are avid users of social media and one day the man in the picture decided to direct message the girl on Twitter. At first the woman was skeptical of the man’s methods of approaching her, but she promptly responded after seeing […]

Items that I use daily from my saddle: Notebooks- for my classes. Pens- to diligently take notes in my notebooks. Cell Phone- debatably my most important item I carry daily, needed for nearly everything, ha! Computer- Used for all of my internet surfing and classes, mostly for my DS106 class, of course. Nasal Spray- Don’t […]