P9: Transforming Objects

Title: Snowed
Tags: dandelion, weed, seeds, extreme close-up
Reflection:I selected this photograph for Project 9. It meets the requirements for this assignment in that it is an extreme close-up which challenges the viewer’s perception of what the object really is. In this photo, the easily recognizable dandelion was transformed into something which looks quite similar to snow.

This assignment was the toughest for me out of all of the projects. I kept racking my brain for an idea. I took several photographs from the bird’s eye and the worm’s eye views but did not feel that any of them were the right photograph for this project. I was about to give up when I discovered this shot while editing a dandelion photo I had taken “just because.” I loved it! Therefore, I value this assignment because it showed me that the simplest of objects can become art. If I were retaking this photograph, I would pick the dandelion and hold it up so that the blue sky was in the background. I would then crop it so that part of the dandelion was in the picture while the blue sky served as the backdrop. I saw a similar photo on a website and thought it looked awesome.

I could use this photograph to teach many skills in my kindergarten classroom. I would show it to my students when teaching them about plants. I would talk to my students about how the wind carries the seeds so that more dandelions can grow. I would use it in a matching game where students match the extreme close-up of the objects to the original photographs. I would ask my students to look at this and other extreme close-up photographs and to tell me what they think the objects could be. I think activities such as this would be fun and would help build my young students’ vocabularies.