In the process of trying to find someone to lecture my 40 Listening and Notetaking students, I was able to secure at least 4-5 photo judges for the upcoming Photo Contest, due date October 23. Thankfully Elisa consented to talk to my students on tips of how to take good, prizewinner photos. She has had a passion for photography since she was 10 years old. We looked at photos that my Ukrainian students had entered in a contest several years ago. Elisa gave critiques on how they could have appeared better with cropping or moving up to the subject. She explained the Rule of Thirds on the blackboard. She also showed a variety of her own still life, macro, people, landscape and animal shots.
I also had my listening students vote on which top three photos they liked out of 33 landscape. The winners had been chosen by the judge in Ukraine, also Elisa agreed with one of them. Finally, the third one was that of mountains in Switzerland. That photo had not placed in Ukraine but because Kazakhstan is ringed with mountains to the south, especially here in Almaty, that was the other popular choice among my 40 students. Here they are, they were bubbling with questions for Elisa and I think enthused about the Photo Contest.
Elisa said,
November 2, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Hi Kazakhnomad!
Just had time now to browse a bit… your blog is awesome!
Just been back from a trip to South-west KZ. I was a guest at a wedding. It has been amazing but also quite exausting!
Please find attached the link to my pics. I’m sure yuo’ll like them.
Hope to see you soon!
Elisa
http://nonstritolarmi.blogspot.com/2009/11/5-cm-di-meno-3-kg-in-piu-e-43-ore-di.html
kazaknomad said,
November 4, 2009 @ 3:58 am
What amazing photos Elisa, thanks for sharing. I’ll get the photo contest submissions to you soon, there are some really beautiful entries!!! You will have a difficult time judging I think.