Day 13 - We had the opportunity to take a photography class with a real photographer, and we got to go to a part of the city and practice taking balanced pictures. The French photographer taught us how to make more interesting and intriguing photos and also how to balance a picture so that the viewer can have the most appeasing view of a space, living being or object. We learned many techniques that were new to all of us, including the 1/3rd rule which says that you should divide your picture into thirds and 2/3rds should be similar and the other third be different, this creates a balanced picture. (Tip- you never want to put the object your focusing on in the center of the frame.)
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| My documentation of the stair in the square...she said it was tres bien! |
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| We had to take a picture of the ground and its relationship to the city below. |
Day 14
Trip 1 - What was supposed to be a very exciting and important trip to the city of Marseilles( the 2nd biggest city in France and in my opinion the most interesting) turned out to be a fail when the building we were supposed to visit burnt down Thursday night. So Friday morning our professor had to have a plan B. Plan B was to visit three urban nuclease(a building or group of buildings that aided in the growth and decisions of the urban city) in France. The first stop was a medieval city that is completely surrounded and enclosed by stone walls. We were able to walk inside the city get breakfast and hot chocolate or as I have come to know it as "Chocolat Chaud"(french hot chocolate). Once we went into the city and explored we got to see the city from a different perspective.... the top of the wall. Anyone can walk in top of the wall and go to the towers and see the city. The wall is continuous and we got to walk all the way around the entire wall and city.
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| View down a main street inside the village. |
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| Map of the whole wall and village. |
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| Main Entrance to the village through the surrounding wall. |
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| At the top of the wall there was skinny vertical holes where soldiers would shoot guns. |
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| Pathway on top of the walls surrounding the medieval village. |
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| View from the top of the main tower of the wall. |
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| A moat separating the main tower from the wall. |
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| Myself on top of the wall. |
Trip 2 - We went to a city called Arles next where we got to see a Colosseum. It was amazing to see that a structure made of mostly stone can survive for so many years, they still hold bull fighting in the stadium.
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| View of the Colosseum from the outside. |
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| View inside the first layer of the Colosseum. |
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| Finally reaching the arena. |
Trip 3 - Our last place of the day was supposed to be a monastery but when we got there it was closed, so we drove another hour out of the way to an abbey. The abbey consisted of very clean lines and materials. The sounds within the abbey were fascinating and the abbey itself is a very serene place. It is meant to be a very quiet place so when noise is made it echoes for a good amount of time, because of the arched ceilings, and smooth walls of stone.
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| Main Entrance |
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| Vaulted ceilings in one of the rooms. |
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| View from outside of the abbey. |
Day 15, 16, 17 & 18 Are the reasons why I haven't updated my blog until now. Saturday and Sunday were spent solely in studio making models and researching many projects. Monday was a full day of classes and Tuesday was another day spent in studio finishing up 3 projects that were due Wednesday, Today.
Day 19 All of us cannot believe how fast the trip is passing by. I booked a trip to Venice, Italy during our spring break for 5 days with a few of my friends and next week on Thursday we will be heading to Barcelona, Spain for 4 days. In about 2 and a half weeks I will be going to Paris to meet Brian and spend the weekend there. Trying to soak it all in and enjoy it all because before I know it, it will be over.
Jusqu'a la prochaine fois,
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