Online Photographer #2 - Andrew Fyfe

Andrew Fyfe is a landscape photographer. His gallery has many pictures of various landscapes, usually dealing with sunset or sunrises. His goal when doing his photographer is to capture images when the light is best, and as beautiful - sunsets.

The main equipment that he uses is Canon EOS digital SLR camera, very similar to a lot of what we've been using to class. His lens though is a wide angle lens. Andrew also uses Cokin Neutral Density Graduated filters that enhance his photos.

Online Photographer #1 - Jim Richardson

Jim Richardson is a quality photographer. He has the opportunity to go to various places to take pictures, whether it be landscapes to wildlife. I've noticed in a lot of his images he does pay attention to detail which is keen to photography. Similar to me, I love to work with various styles and subjects, whether it be from still life, to landscape to people or wildlife.


His bodies of works have been on covers of National Geographic magazine. I enjoy his work a lot because they capture my attention and draw any of the viewers into the portrait.

Funes Art Competition

Cooking: The Native Foods

TODAY was another opportunity for students to go and see the native plants being cooked. Those who signed up were allowed to go to our professor's home. Little did I realize why she had said about carpooling. Upon my drive to the place after the exit, I couldn't help but get lost, (once again.) It's been a recurring issue and I don't know why I had assumed it would end. Yet again, I had to call another classmate who luckily had GPS. We both drove up and down the hills as we looked for the home. As I was driving I couldn't help but notice the scenery around me. It was beautiful as to we were more on a country side. You can hear nothing but the wind gusting in the air. Finally we arrived at the home parking waaaay downhill as the driveway had been full. As I walked in I noticed students had begun setting up a table for the foods that were being prepared.

I walked into the kitchen and had seen our two chefs, Flora and Monica. Accompanied by them was another classmate of theirs, Tommy. The women cooked various dishes while Tommy was on the side taking down the recipes.
As they prepared, the students, myself included helped set up on what we thought may look like a good photograph. I too ended up with a video camera for this shoot as there were very many vivid colors from the foods to the tablecloth and the sunlight and plants in the background.



Of the dishes that were created there was a baked fish with a cactus salad on top, chia lemonade, yucca blossom salad with veggies, pine nuts and some strawberries from Tierra Miguel. The foods were very appetizing as we all gathered around taking pictures. After the shoot, whoever was left got together and tasted the food. The food was amazing, and to know it was all healthy compared to our normally poor diets, it was refreshing. All in all the day was a great experience to see a country side, and much less eat great and healthy foods.

Indian Rock

OFF to another field trip for class, yet this was the closest and yet I ended up being late. Unfortunate as it was, because of its location. I drove around for awhile looking for the streets on the directions given. I felt even more so lost when I drove into suburbia. Everything looked as if I was headed towards the wrong direction. I ended up texting a few classmates to make sure i was headed the right way but was hesitant at first because of my tardiness.


Eventually I got them and they told me that I was headed the right way. When I finally arrived to my destination, I noticed this giant rock to my left on the side of the hill. The rock had some graffiti on it and we learned that gangs had significantly tagged it. I eventually was able to sneak in with the rest of the class and grab bits of information as he talked about the plants and wildlife.
From other classmates I learned that some of the plants that were there had certain chemicals in them that kept them protective from other plants. The plants were not surrounded by weeds like any other typical plant. Also I cam to find out the rock was once used as a ritual site for women for fertility.



After the tour, we were able to take photographs on our own and walk around. I walked around the hill and went beside the rock and noticed its foundation and the different plants surrounding it. After, I met along with the other who were in line for a catered meal by our hosts as we looked on and then discussed among other classmates about the visit and catching up on other information from the tour.

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Rincon Indian Reservation

I had no idea what I was going to be in store for this next trip at Rincon. I had been given the opportunity to do a video instead of taking pictures of the site of other students working in the field. As I arrived there were tools available as the purpose of this trip was to have a 'hands on' experience. It was very gratifying to see everyone working together as groups were assigned. As students from our Advance Digital class collaborated with the other class - it was nice to see the teamwork between the two as others would be alongside planning out where to plant and so forth. As everyone was being disbursed using the plot of land they had and how to execute the plants they wanted, they put them in various spots, digging and putting the plants while in the pots to measure up how big of a hole they needed. As I was filming, it was good to see a teamwork of students, taking turns digging, taking plants out of pots, photographing one another and so forth.

After I had a good amount of footage of everyone working together, I had an interview with our hostess, Kristie Orosco. She is a alumni of CSUSM and talked about how she had taken the class before. She touched on how the native culture was and their beliefs and as well as talking about the plants and about the surrounding area. Also, she went on and talked about how people get a different view compared to the assumptions that people normally have. Also. she went on and talked about how she had been very excited to have students help out as it is not a common opportunity for most.