Africa and Abandoned Amusement Parks

      These photographs are stunning. I don't usually like black and white/ sepia filters, but for some reason, these really enhance the pictures in some way. It's amazing how he has so much patience and will wait weeks just for a few photos. He clearly knows what he's doing though, because they all come out beautiful.

I really like it because of the how the bird looks. It looks dead but dying. It seems to be more than a skeleton, but the remains of a bird that used to be alive. It shows lots of symmetrical and geometric patterns in the waters reflection, as well as balance with the mountain in the background.

Nick Brandt uses a Pentax 6711 lens. He takes these pictures as part of his goal to be the last one to document the beauty of East Africa before it is destroyed by man. He hopes his pictures will capture the animals spirit and in their natural state of being. "You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close."




Of all the abandoned theme parks, I would rather go to "Jazzland" or Six Flags: New Orleans. I would go there mostly because I have close ties to New Orleans and I really enjoy going there. Also, I LOVE Six Flags, so I think walking around an abandoned one would be really cool.

Some places I think would be cool to photograph would be Alcatraz, caves, North Korea, the sky (as in sky diving), and Mt. Everest (if you could see anything).

I have always been interested in Alcatraz because it's a very famous prison, for being in escapable as well as haunted. This photo above is of the courtyard of the prison. If I were to go and take photographs there, I would expect to take a lot of symmetrical pictures. This is based on the fact that I always see the photos of the hallways and cells, which have many geometric qualities. To go there, I would need a camera, and a tripod (especially if I were going for the geometric aspects of the prison). I would need to get a tour of the prison, and pre cure a ferry ride there. I would be interested in renting a helicopter to fly over the bay and photograph a picture of it from the air (I would like to get a shot with Alcatraz as the focus and the San Francisco skyline as the background.