Dear Parents,

I honestly don’t  know what happened to me this week. I was definitely falling behind in work and the week just has been INSANE. The counselors here at camp are wonderful and they continue to teach us how to tell stories through visual creations, such as photography.

It has been a lot of fun exploring different aspects of photography and learning to make interesting images. However the course work is getting heavy and I haven’t been physically capable to catch up. I continued being sick this week, and that was not fun for me.

As I previously told you we have to complete “Daily Creates” of different things. There are daily assignments that needs to be completed and we chose five out of the seven to do. Mom and dad you already know that I love photography. Therefore I first focused on taking pictures of something that isn’t in focus or apart if it is blurr. I used my Canon t1i Rebel to capture the image then used Aperture to blurr some part of the image.

Then I took a photograph of six minutes past the hour. You know that we are a tea loving family and therefore I took a picture of a tea cup that has a picture of a clock six past the hour.

Thirdly, I created a monochrome photograph, this is my favorite feature while edited photographs. Monochrome gives certain images this element that makes you tell stories, even with the simplest of pictures. I again used Aperture, to conduct this feature.

and fourth create was to capture an image of something metaphorical or physical that I envy. My childhood is something that I truly miss. I still consider myself a big kid at heart (and mind) but I also miss the innocence that dies off as we grow into these heartless human beings. Being a child is a beautiful thing, and let’s be honest, I was a darn cute little girl. I took a picture of my friend on a swing at night, under the moonlight. This photograph explained my childhood pretty well.

Finally, I explored mine craft, a virtual world that I am able to connect with other campers while building myself a fortress to keep out the monsters, umm yes. Monsters come out at night to kill you, so I downloaded this game and I will eventually defeat these darn monsters. Maybe this is not a good idea after all. But I will let you know how it goes.

Also I forgot to tell you that our camp counselors showed us how to correctly use plug ins for our blogs. I learned how to install them. I installed twitter, recent comments and other plug ins to make my site appear awesome (hope it worked).

Alright, that is all for now.
I hope you are doing well.

Your favorite daughter,
Abir