A Memorable Image

Students practice moves at a pole dancing club in Wuhan, China on August 31, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the low viewpoint and subject placement.

Paramilitary policemen jump above their fellow policemen's arms as they take part in psychological training in Tongling, China on August 28, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the subject placement and the low viewpoint.

Parents of freshmen students sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan, China on September 8, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the subject placement and mainly because of the bird's eye viewpoint.

Containers are loaded by workers in Qingdao on September 9, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the subject placement and the fish eye camera lense that was used.

A North Korean girl plays at a game booth at a Folk Street in Sariwon, North Korea, Sept. 23, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the subject placement.

Creating an Image: Hummingbird at a Feeder

Sample from Sami

My 5 Favourites

It was hard to choose!

National Geographic contest 2011. LONE TREE YELLOWSTONE: A solitary tree surviving another harsh winter in Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (Photo and caption by Anita Erdmann/Nature/National Geographic Photo Contest)

A woman leans into the mouth of a plastic shark to kiss her child at the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, July 24, 2012. (Hye Soo Nah/Associated Press) 

A livestock seller pedals his bike, towing his newly acquired pig that he plans to fatten before putting on the market, in Guantanamo, Cuba, July 25, 2012. (Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press)

An Indian woman gets both a faceful of powder and a handful of green paint during celebrations in Allahabad on March 20. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press

World Press Photo Contest. 1st Prize Daily Life Singles: A photograph of North Korea's founder, Kim II-sung, hangs on a building in the capital of Pyongyang, North Korea, Oct. 5, 2011. 

Mountains Calling!

OUTDOOR SCENES - Lenticular Over Mt. Rainer: The wonder of the weather. (Rolland Hartstrom/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

Pedal Power!

Welcome and Good Chaplin Resource

It was very interesting to hear from you three today and nice to know that you are all film buffs! The teachers are trying to make our class a bit bigger but it seems to me that our group can definitely do some good work together this year in any case.

I've found some more information on Chaplin that I had not seen before. If you'd like to look, it includes some information on "The Kid" that gives you a sense of what Chaplin was doing for his first feature length work. The dream sequence was pretty strange!

Here's the specific page on the film we saw: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/film/chaplin/meth5.html

You can also go to page bottom and find the home page. It's a really old site that is hard to navigate but it is good quality and interesting.

More on my favourite pictures on the weekend.