Week Two Blog

This past week was my last week on senior project. May 19th was my last day taking pictures; I walked around New York City for six hours. I started putting my book together on May 18th because it was raining all day long so I was only able to take pictures of Yankees stadium. On May 20th I completed my book and sent it out on the morning of May 21 to Snapfish, which is the website I am using to have my book, “Inside The City That Never Sleeps” printed. Yesterday I woke up early and my father drove me back to campus.
In the beginning of senior project I made a list of places I wanted to photograph and for the most part I achieved all of them. I did not end up taking pictures of the United Nations and Ground Zero. I decided that those were not things that I felt a connection too, I realized that they were more of tourist attractions. The twin towers were such a presence in New York and the 911 a day filled with horrible memories, most New Yorkers choose not to go visit ground zero. I have never been, which is why I realized it would not play as an appropriate picture in my book. Because I decided not to take pictures of these two things I took pictures of New York City Schools. When I lived in New York I attended the Hewitt School, Manhattan school are different form others schools because they are in old brown stones and are generally very small. I also ended up taking many more pictures in central park than planed, such as pictures of statues, multiple ponds and the carousel. I thought that those had more to do with making New York a wonderful place than the more obvious things such as ground zero and the UN.
What I thought was challenging this week was putting my book together and not having enough time to go back and re-shoot sights. I did not think it was going to be so hard to edit down and decide what pictures I wanted to place in my book. I planned on my book being around fifty pages and it ended up being seventy-five. For some reason I was not able to get good pictures of Saks, the National History Museum and St Patrick’s on 5th Ave because of the construction. Over all I am extremely happy with the out come of my book, I put a lot of hard work into it. This book has made me reconnect to the city I grew up in; over the past few years I have not been able to spend time in the city. There is nothing that could have made me happier than being able to take pictures and walk around New York, rediscovering all of the amazing things that it has to offer. I cannot wait for it to arrive to see the final outcome.