Upon my travels to Sydney, I decided to capture my adventures on a film camera. Not only was this a fun new way of taking photos, it also added an element of curiosity and uncertainty as I was never able to see the photo taken immediately after like you can on a digital camera or Iphone.

This is me. I never really let people take my photo especially alone, I prefer to be behind the camera, but for my self portrait I thought it was necessary.  I think this photo shows me for me, there not too much going on, and because i’m at the centre and the outskirts are dark the composition of the photo really focuses on capturing a moment of ‘me’. I don’t think i’d change anything about this photo as it is a perfect depiction.

Upon my travels to Sydney, I decided to capture my adventures on a film camera. Not only was this a fun new way of taking photos, it also added an element of curiosity and uncertainty as I was never able to see the photo taken immediately after like you can on a digital camera or Iphone.

Yes this photo is blurry, but its such a good representation of my rocky relationship with the ocean. I am to this day the biggest beach goer, I chase the sun all year just to make sure I’m never to far from the salt waves.  However, I have an innate fear of huge waves so something I love so much is also something I really struggle to conquer and be in. So this photo although blurry capture my experience with the ocean perfectly. I am happy in this photo because I am at home on the beach, however the blur works as well because it shows my fears as well. the message I was trying to get across in this photo I do believe has been successful about my fear and love of the ocean. I wouldn’t change anything about this photo, the fact that it does have imperfections almost makes it even more perfect.

Upon my travels to Sydney, I decided to capture my adventures on a film camera. Not only was this a fun new way of taking photos, it also added an element of curiosity and uncertainty as I was never able to see the photo taken immediately after like you can on a digital camera or Iphone.

This photo was taken on Bondi Beach, Sydney. They say that you can have different soul mates in a life time. In my opinion not all soul mates have to serve a  romantic purpose,  sometimes I find that you can have an instant connection to someone and feel like your souls intertwine on such a level that is indescribable. This photo represents one of my soul mates, I met her around 1 year ago and spent the year travelling with her, she’s now moving into my home in Melbourne and I can’t wait. This photo represents her completely she is one of the most vibrant and caring people I have ever met. I think when taking this photo I captured her essence accurately and would not have hoped for a better shot.

Upon my travels to Sydney, I decided to capture my adventures on a film camera. Not only was this a fun new way of taking photos, it also added an element of curiosity and uncertainty as I was never able to see the photo taken immediately after like you can on a digital camera or Iphone.

This photo was taken at a friends place, we were hanging out as a group and getting ready to go out to this apparently awesome club called the “Jam Gallery”. Little did I know that entering that club would be the most insane experience ever. As I walked in, I could here the music vibrating through the floor and bouncing off the walls turning the room into a different reality, I was no longer in ‘Sydney’ I was transported into a world of noise, rhythm and colour. Oh the colours! fluro patterns everywhere creating images of animals on the walls. Before you think that I was on some sort of substance, I wasn’t I was sober as they come, it was the physical structure of the place that transported me into this psychedelic world. This photo was taken moments before leaving and it honestly depicts the night so accurately, I was trying to portray my confusing and general happiness that night, I think this photo does capture that completely, given the opportunity to retake this photo and make any differences I wouldn’t.

Upon my travels to Sydney, I decided to capture my adventures on a film camera. Not only was this a fun new way of taking photos, it also added an element of curiosity and uncertainty as I was never able to see the photo taken immediately after like you can on a digital camera or Iphone.

This photo was capturing the moment of pure pleasure, for some background: I had been hiking fro 15km on a 40degree day. Unknowing that the earth would heat up so much on this day a friend and I had pre-planed to hike in the Royal National Park in Sydney to make to the famous figure 8 pools. The message in this photo is achievement if you can tell by the way I am holding my arms up in triumph, I had made it through the day without fainting! I think the point of this photo has come across successfully and if I could retake the shot again and adjust anything I wouldn’t I think it perfectly captures the moment of achievement for me.

Upon my travels to Sydney, I decided to capture my adventures on a film camera. Not only was this a fun new way of taking photos, it also added an element of curiosity and uncertainty as I was never able to see the photo taken immediately after like you can on a digital camera or Iphone. This photo was taken in the heart of Bondi in an awesome underground bar that was smashing some live music. I was having so much fun with my friends we decided to capture the moment. What was the message I was trying to get across in this photo? happiness. I believe you can see the happiness radiating from this picture from our smiles to the vibe of the whole shot. If i could do something differently to take this photo i would i think theres something really beautiful about living in the moment and loving every shot taken for a different reason.

From this weeks reading it has become clear to me that the focus of my degree will be solely on making the world a better place. I know it sounds lucrative and childish to believe that I could change the world myself, the thought that the rest of my life will be focused changing the world with my singular efforts. I mean how could I?  I’m just a privileged teen from Melbourne Victoria who went to a private school and had everything handed to her on a silver platter…

Well what if it wasn’t so stupid to say that even changing or igniting an idea/experience in just one other person in the world could be enough to change it. There’s this scientific theory called ‘the butterfly effect’, essentially it means that one small change in a state of a deterministic nonlinear system can determine a massive divergence in the initial conditions and thus change everything.

So I guess the whole point is looking at the media as a means to ‘trigger’ a change, hopefully one that will leave not a stain on society (as so much has already) but leave a footprint in the right direction towards a place that is more accepting and conscious.

Theres something very degrading about feeling inept, especially when the inability is within the ‘realm’ of your understanding and the course you have specifically chosen to do. Sitting there in my first workshop, our task being to format a blog, (this blog) whilst making sure we could understood how to work, use and function the blog all at the same time. further having our first assessment due, plus being able to navigate the Media 1 online classroom and resources. I was majorly overwhelmed, drowning in all this new information and technology I felt lost all over agin like in school when you didn’t understand algebra and sneakishly looked over at your best friend for them to help you out,  or just knowing that when in doubt always go withe default answer C. It was by far the toughest experience yet and I still feel confused and I hope that I am doing everything correctly… who knows?

I was really nervous to attend this lecture for no reason other than it being my first one ever! 15 months work free and  3 incredible summer’s later, I found myself saying goodbye to the freedom of spontaneity, long summer nights and travel by walking through those doors and into a room full of 100 nameless faces I didn’t know.  The lecture began with a random song that left everyone uncomfortably waiting and suspending the small talk conversations with people they had just met. Luckily I had found a girl I had met during orientation to sit with (Unaware she would be in nearly everyone of my classes and that we would actually share lots in common, she’s pretty awesome). I nervously sat there awaiting what would proceed me for the next couple of hours and In saying that a projection of what the next few months would entail. As the lecture drew on I found myself becoming more comfortable entertaining the idea of Uni. The lecture was based around the theme of Ecologies (the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs-Lance Strate, “Understanding MEA,” In Medias Res 1 (1), Fall 1999). And the major idea of attention was introduced, the reading “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divid in Cognitive Models” (N.Katherine Hayles 2007), explored the ideas of hyper attention and deep attention. deep attention meaning sole and unwavering concentration on one particular task, and hyper referring to the ability to float between tasks within the same time frame. The text hypothesized the “generational shift in cognitive styles” that is taking place. This refers to the contrast between hyper and deep attention and how children have a a shift in their style of attention, as a result of institutions using deep attention methods for teaching. The article was written in the year 2007 which is interesting because I would have been at the age that the article speaks about when it was written. In a way it made me think if I had a shift in my own style of attention growing up as a result of school teaching, or if I had maintained a certain style throughout my lifetime. Does that say something about my personality? I think all in all the lecture exceeded my expectations and has braced me for what I believe will be a challenging and thought provoking semester, one that I now feel ready to tackle.