Africa & Theme Parks

1. On your blog post your reactions to what you read and what you saw. How about 3-4 sentences.

I am astounded by how he wants to take pictures of the animals. He describes his reasoning of how he portraits them in a really insightful way. His photos are completely unique and the way he captures the animal so naturally. It makes you feel like you are right there standing near that animal. 

This is my favorite because it is so dynamic and different. The photo just is so relaxing and the lion is not posed or anything you get to see the lion just naturally where he is.

4. What rules of photography are evident in the photos you selected, be sure to explain the rule to me?
Viewpoint because he gets down to the lion's level, and simplicity because there is not anything pulling away from the lion and the background doesn't distract.

5. What kind of camera and lens does he use and why is this important?He uses a Pentax 67II with two fixed lenses.
6. What is his reason for taking these photos?
To keep a memory of the beautiful nature and wildlife in Africa. 
7. What is his hope by taking these type of photos?
To let the world see these animals as he sees them, and how they are similar to us.
8. Find something he has to say about Africa, and post the quote on your blog.
"The photos are my elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."

1. Tell me which amusement park featured in the two articles that you would like to visit and take your camera along and what about that park made you want to go there. Write at least a paragraph.
I would want to go to Nara Dreamland in Japan. I first want to go there because I love Disney World and I wanna see how they tried to mimic it. They have some really cool things to shoot. I think the pastel colors would look really good to photograph with. The streets are so cute and it would be really fun to take pictures and just walk around there.
2. Post one photo from that park. You may use the photos from the link, or you can google an entirely new photo. I would prefer to see a photo of the park in disrepair and not a photo of it when it was still operating.

3. Think of at least FIVE other unusual places you think would be of interest to photographers. List them.
Abandoned houses, 
Antarctica
shut down concentration camp in Germany. because that would be something revolutionary and really make people think.
Jamaica
old playground

4. Use google or another search engine to research ONE of your five places and see if anyone has already started documenting that place. If you find that someone has already started - post at least one photo of their work.

5. Write a paragraph about why you think that it would be fun to document that location. Tell me what interests you about that place and what kind of photos you could expect to take there.
I would love to photograph places there because it is really interesting to me. Also you could tell a story of what happened there just by taking one photo or even a series of photos. The abandoned houses are also very natural and not fake, posed pictures like photos can be. I could expect to take unique, inspired pictures that tell the story of the house. 
6. Tell me what it would take for you to go and take photos at your location. What would you need as far as equipment goes, travel plans, expenses you might encounter and what laws you would have to take into consideration to take photos at your spot.
I would need a good lens to really capture the details of the houses. This particular one is in New York so it wouldn't be too hard to travel there but I would need to see if I can just go on the property or if I need a warrant to enter the house because of trespassing laws. If I was to do a series of abandoned houses I would need a good amount of money to get all the places I want to go.