quality, and it looks like I’m not the only one who thinks so, as he currently holds an impressive four spots on the top twenty for most expensive photographs ever sold, including allegedly, “Phantom” the most expensive photograph in the world, sold at a mind blowing 6.5 million dollars to a private collector. Quite impressive for a self-taught photographer from Melbourne, Australia, who when asked what his favorite photograph is, humbly always replies, “I haven’t taken it yet.” Since his 8th birthday, in the mid 60’s, where received his first camera as a gift from his parents, a Kodak Brownie Box Camera, that he used to take his first ever photograph, a spider web at his family home, he’s constantly worked to improve his craft. Family vacations in his youth helped him find his niche and love, taking photographs of the landscapes and the ocean. He continued in his early adult life where he took road trips into the Australian Outback, with a friend, Michael Plumridge, another famous Australian photographer with a huge portfolio. It was a chance he took going to the United States in 1984 that lead to his discovery of his first panoramic camera that completely opened up his world and imagination. While on a one year trip around the country in an old beat up van, it was in Alaska where he learned about large format photography and he found his calling. He later returned back to his homeland and continued to experiment with the unique panoramic format to great effect, creating his…
Wyatt King Mrs. Misselhorn 6th Hour Language Arts 29 March 2017 Should Kids Have a Summer Break? For centuries kids have had most of the summer off. That time in between school some call heaven. For people that don’t know what heaven is its twelve weeks of break from school. During that time, kids can have fun, make memories with their families, and relax from loads of homework. Without that break between kids won’t be themselves. They won’t have time to make memories with their families,…
Summer break is a time were many students look forward to, with its free time to experience many sort of activities with no time limit. Individuals feel relaxed because they are rewarded for their hard work for studying through the years. In a certain extend summer vacation is beneficial to students. Although too much of anything is not good. Long summer vacations will give individuals a loss in academic skills and knowledge over the course of the holiday. With summer vacations ranging to six to…
During the summer, I devour the books that I didn't have time to read during the school year. I'm hungry for the kind of "can't-put-it-down-stay-up-all-night" experience I so cherished as a child. I found that three times this summer: In "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, "Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi, and "Go Set a Watchman", Harper Lee's eagerly awaited second (but maybe first) novel about Scout all grown up. The first, "All the Light I Cannot See", I slurped up in…
He continued on paragraph three by saying that ‘summer vacation is a tradition as old as summer vacation itself”; this is just rumbling. He mentioned ancient past but forget to state what part of ancient pass and how much in the…
skills that are not taught in school I am arguing not to have summer homework. I personally have not had summer homework before but I know friends that have and from what they have told me it is very stressful. Summer is supposed to be a relaxing break after a long school year. The last thing us students want to think about is homework. Student’s summers are filled with other activities and having homework would build unnecessary stress to not only the students but to the parents. Homework would…
During class, I imaged myself in the summer and having fun, but before summer, I have to finish my college quarter first. Going through college is stressful for me because this is my first year college, and I don't have the experience at handling it. I have tried to use this technique at home once. I was imagining myself traveling around California. One of my dream is to travel around new places to learn new things. I believes that traveling is a good method to release my stress because I can…
as much as summer vacation. The origin of the 3-month leave of school goes back to the 1800s. Originally, it was based on the Agrarian calendar when children were needed as farm hands during harvest seasons. It is obvious that we live in a different era than the 1800s, most people see summer as a time to unravel from the school year and enjoy a little bit of leisure, but today this idea is fading. This generation is unique to those before it, because of the forces of globalization and…
Summer Learning Loss School serves a variety of purposes in society, from providing the foundation for students to gain critical knowledge that they will need before they enter the real world to creating a place for students to interact and learn how to build relationships with one another. The very foundation of the human race’s dominance or superiority over all other species in life is the intellectual knowledge we have obtained over a period of time. With that in mind it is very important…
minds should be kept in the same rhythm as agricultural seasons. They believed in teaching children the basics such as reading and writing to make them productive citizens, but not “over-studying” them. Educational reformers did not want to over school children because it caused mental disorders which they believed derived from over exhaustion due to long confinements while studying. Moreover, historian Kenneth Gold states that when relieving children of too much studying, it allows them to…