Hey Mom and Dad!

This week has been CRAZY. Our counselors are in full swing right now. They are teaching us how to tell stories through visual creations, such as photography.

However though the load did get heavy, it’s been a lot of fun working with different outlets to make goofy/symbolic images.

Every week as I have said in previous letters (if I haven’t, apologies) we do an activity called The Daily Create. There is one assigned daily and this week we chose five out of the seven to work on. The first one I “focused” on is taking a picture of something that isn’t it focus or apart of it isn’t in focus. I used my I phone and smeared the lenses a little bit to make it out of focus and voilà!

The second one was to take a picture 6 minutes after the hour. My mom graduated from Ohio University this week so I waited until 11:06 and took a quick snapshot of my brother, mother, and myself J.

The third Daily Create was to create a monochrome picture, I’m maybe a little too much in love with crew, and therefor I edited an image in sepia tone on Photoshop. [

The fourth objective was to capture an image of something physical or metaphorical that I am envious of. Hiking is one of my passions, not just for the healthy aspect of it but for all of the beautiful views you get through out the hike and at the end (usually). I took a picture of the view on top of Old Rag in the Shenandoah. It was breathtaking and reminded me why I love hiking.

The fifth Daily Create….

Visual Assignments

This week we explored how to play and manipulate photographs through visual assignments that past students have created! We had to earn at least 10 stars in order to be “C” students. I hopefully earned 13-14 stars (fingers crossed!).

Mine Craft

A virtual world that I can connect with other campers while building myself a fortress to keep out the monsters… yes that’s right monsters. At nighttime monsters come out and can potentially kill you if you don’t have shelter and the more you play the more extensive your shelter can become. I’m going to download this game by the end of the week and let you know how it goes! Stay tuned. J

Additional Blog Related News

Our head counselors showed us tutorials on plug ins for our blogging websites. We learned how to install them and what they are valuable for. Different plug ins does different things such as keeping out spammers, uploading photos from Flickr, and twitter usage.

That’s all for now!

Miss you guys and the dogs!

Love,
Katie