Action! – A chicken takes flight while Sasha Kuznetsov is inside of it’s coup.(Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Red – A turkey poses with it’s red head perfectly coordinating with the red barn in the background. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Curve – A few various birds on the farm waddle along a curved, rocky road. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Love – A girl lovingly hugs her dog. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Fast – An adult and child speed by on the farm. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Slow – A man slowly rides his tractor on his farm. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Gritty – Sasha gets gritty in work in the dirt floor of the chicken coup while exploring the farm. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Moment – Sasha pets a dog on the farm in the exact same moment as the dog flicks his tongue out. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
6:30 AM – Molly opens up her laptop to get some work done early in the morning before she attends her early morning workout at Orange Theory. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Layer – I spotted through some layers of branches and trees some birds sit on different layers of branches in the trees on the farm. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Pattern – A perfectly crafted pattern of license plates are hung about the walls in the barn. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Joy – A child smiles as he watches his new drone fly through the sky over the farm. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Shadow – Sasha and another girl dance with their shadows on the dirt road of the farm under the bright sun. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Shadow – A cat lies in the shadows of a dark barn. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Youth – Two girls carefully hold two new born bunnies in their hands. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Fear – A girl watches with concern as a drone flies overhead. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Tall – Sasha stretches to the roof of the chicken coup. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Soggy – An old silo sits and rots with moss and vines growing inside. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Old – A man talks to his family on his farm. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Unusual – Rachel Peden holds up one of the many Bunnies she keeps on the farm. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Lonely – A girl sits by her lonesome as she watches a dog walk away.(Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Bright – A girl covers her eyes as she takes a rest against the exterior barn wall. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
Sunset – Grace watches the sunset from the roof of The Graduate Hotel after a long day of studying. (Credit: Meredyth Jones)
For my feature story project I decided to venture out to a barn to explore and take pictures of various things I saw and found and thought I could interpret for this assignment. One thing I remember strongly while shooting for this assignment is that I learned a lot about how to interpret photos and see things in ways I would not normally see them. I had to shoot lots and lots and lots. In addition to shooting lots and lots of photos I had to try and keep in mind all of the key words and try and find moments and scenes that reminded me of these words. I thought that this was a very interesting and fun assignment and really opened my eyes to how we as photographers can make any scene or moment into something that tells a story and can give meaning to something that may not have had any meaning before as well as portray something in a way that you might not usually think of it as. My favorite photo I took in this project was one of the first photos I captured on the farm. This photo is the one of the turkey with its red head in front of a red barn. When I first stepped onto the farm I was a little lost and was trying to see how I could possibly find every photo I needed for this assignment. As I was walking around the chicken coups and fenced areas of various types of wild birds I noticed the Turkey’s red head. I then followed it around, trying desperately to snap a good picture of it when I noticed the red barn in the background. A light clicked in my head and I thought to myself “Red! Here is red!” I captured that moment of the turkey in front of the barn and was really satisfied in how uniquely I interpreted that color. From this point on in the shoot I continued to think outside of the box and take pictures of everything I saw thinking about how I could interpret the scenes in different ways. All in all, this project taught me a lot about what I can do as a photographer and how to work with what you got and how to interpret a scene or moment and tell a story.
