Next on my “to do” list for the class is prepping for next week (it’d be nice if I was more than 15 minutes ahead in this class!) and commenting on your invent your own technology blog writings. But I thought I would first give you “the answers” to the images I shared in “the seeing” exercise.
And I guess I know these are “the answers” either because I took the picture and/or I saw the image. To the extent that there can be definitive “truth” with this stuff, here it is:
This is a photo I took on a Christmas visit to my inlaws in Naples, Florida a couple years ago. It’s in this sort of entryway in the front of their house that they rarely use– usually, they just come in through the garage. I thought that the way the balls were hanging in the palm tree was amusing. I’m not much of a Florida fan, and it is always weird to be there over Christmas. Though the weather is nice there that time of year.
This is a photo by the artist John Gutmann. It’s called (and I love this title) The Artist Lives Dangerously, San Francisco, 1938. I first saw it 20-some-odd years ago at an exhibit at the National Gallery in Washington, DC and I still have a postcard of it on my bulletin board. As luck would have it, there is a current exhibit of Gutmann’s work– though in Arizona.
This is a view Florence, Italy, a snapshot I took, I think from the Piazzelle Michelangelo. The big domed building on the right is the region’s cathedral, “The Duomo,” and the tower to the left is the old city hall and near the very famous art museum “The Uffizi.” Annette, Will, and I went there about five or so years ago. This is a very iconic view in that I am almost certain that 90% of the tourists who visit Florence and who have a camera takes a picture like this, and it’s a skyline as recognizable as Washington, D.C., or New York City. So that’s why I said in my instructions earlier that if you know what this is for certain, keep it to yourself.
Ha! I was almost certain that picture #3 was of Florence, Italy. Have I been there myself? No. But, a college friend went and I remembered seeing (what I thought was) this picture in her photographic evidence after the trip. I guess she was one of the 90% of tourists with a camera.
I am still intrigued, however, that I still had doubts that this was Florence, so I tried to make my assumptions about the picture from simply analyzing it. It is interesting how the assumptions were all correct, down to the fact that the bell tower on the left belongs to the city hall! (Even if I was certain it was Florence, I wouldn’t have known that.) I guess it just proves a point that a lot of truths CAN be drawn from photographs. Pretty cool.
I knew it was Christmas, and I thought Flordia for a second but went with out west. I have not been either place so I think I did okay here..
For photo #3, I’m glad to know that the photographer and I were on the same page with our thoughts about that photo. I think Angie did a good job pointing out some of the intricacies of that particular photo.
Thanks Andrea, I just wish I knew what was really going on, lol.
I thought Florida at first, but then convinced myself that maybe it was Hawaii due to the topiary tree. Nice to have relatives in Florida to visit though!
My husband played the seeing excercise and he thought Christkmas in Florida on picture #1 because of the plant on the table and palm tree.
This was fun because we have so much in our files from prior knowledge but trying to look at something from a new prospective is hard.