Summer Reflections
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009(Emily Naff) As I prepare for the upcoming Fall semester, I find myself reflecting on my summer adventures. I am sure that fellow faculty members and students will be curious about my experience teaching photography in The Netherlands. So, I spent a little time looking over student work and selecting what I thought were some of the best photographs taken by my students this summer. The students photographed a wide variety of subjects for their various assignments. Assignments included architecture, shadows, reflections, graphic elements, the power of color and sense of place. Work by all students is included in this slideshow: Ryan Farmer, Trinity Falter, Matthew Zingg, Dylan Kahn and Lindsey Overhalser. To see work by each individual student follow the link to the NING Website.
(Trinity Falter) We had a rough beginning, with planes, trains and trams. After finally getting our rooms, going to dinner and crashing for the night, it was all blue skies from then on out. The first couple of days in Amsterdam we had beautiful weather (we were spoiled). The first week was full of sightseeing and snapshots. It took some time adjusting to the craziness of just crossing the street. Unless you wanted to get hit by a various number of things, you needed to look in about five different directions. It was difficult to get from point A to point B when half of the time the people with the map had no sense of direction, lol. It only took about a week to know where most things were.
This morning after breakfast here we’re moving out from the old Stayokay location and will take the metro down to the Cube Houses to set up for class. We walked down to see them yesterday, and Pieter Baas showed us around.