PhotoVoice #4

This is my dog Charlie. I begged my Mum and Dad for ages to get a puppy. It worked! Although he's pretty big now and doesn't look like a puppy he's really naughty and acts like a pup. He rips up rubbish, he pulls all the clothes off the clothes line, he barks at possums and jumps all over me. But I love him. He's too cute not to :)

PhotoVoice #3

I catch this every day. Dez scares me a little. The kids all give us high fives as we get on. Daniel sings to us. Tucker tells jokes every now and then. Lauree tells us stories , some of which we've heard before. Blair laughs at all the stupid things people say. Brookie gets me up to date with the latest music sometimes. Frances whips out cool headphones. Tegan comes on the bus Thursdays. I sleep alot of the time. We all say 'Cya on Monday' every time Daniel gets off the bus. Good old Weegena Bus.

PhotoVoice #2

I took this picture at the bus stop before school. I like it because it's untouched, I haven't photoshopped it at all. It reminds me of the kind of beauty I do see every day and take for granted. While I'm outside waiting and sooking because I'm cold, I get to see this.

PhotoVoice #1

We've begun a program at school called 'PhotoVoice'. This is an opportunity for our photography class to show their work to the community. We have a week (a bit more) to take our cameras with us and happily snap away. We have been given the question "Who Am I?" and we're to answer it through our photos. With the many many photos I take through this week (a bit more), I am to select roughly 50. Then I will have an interview with TJ (the guy incharge) in which we will discuss my photots and will choose 15. Those 15 will be framed and put around the Deloraine Hospital.

This is my first picture.
I love photography.
I love Mrs Sydes' SLR too.

In fact I love Mrs Sydes for letting me

borrow her SLR camera :)

Favourite

This is my favourite photo that I have taken. At the little haunted house, down Beaumonts Road, I took Aunty Lorraines Nikon D60. I took a picture through one of the many cracks in the wall not thinking much of it. I tried to line up the sun coming through and succeeded. I haven't edited this photo and thats why I love it so much. It's naturally awesome.

One of the very few photos where I feel clever.

I took this photo at a local football match between the different wards of our church. It was Launceston West & Launceston East vs. Deloraine, Devonport & Burnie. My Mum's old best friend, Fiona Harding, came along to take some pictures. She knew I was a little interested in photography and let me have a play with her SLR. I took plenty of photos but this was the best one by far. I was glad that I got so much squished into the photo. Jack's leg is still in up, the ball is at the top of the photo and Luke is in midair trying to block. Then in the background I've got the other players and one even looks as if he's disappionted that the goal may go in. Fiona then edited this photo for me and put the 'Tayla Christie Photography' on it.

Heart Written

I used this photo for my ANZAC Photography Assignment. I called it 'Heart Written'. When I was given the assignment I immediantly thought that I wanted to do something that was out of the ordinary. It was obviously based on war so I wanted to look at it from a different perspective. I didn't want to include death, blood or pain. So I looked at it from a woman's perspective. First I decided that I wanted to use my friend Meg as the model. Then I had to decide what I wanted her to be doing and what perspective of war to look at. I ended up wanting it to be a woman at home writing to a loved one. I could picture a lady in black and white writing at an old desk. I had a few issues with setting this scene. It became tricky to have my model, Meg, over at my place to take the photo.

I also had to try and find clothes that would have been worn back in 1914. I ended up finding an old white top that could have been warn back in the day and used that. I have a nice old desk at home but because it was getting tricky to organise both Meg & I and our very busy schedules we decided to do it all at school. We organised a wooden desk from the school office and placed it outside where the light was best. I borrowed Mrs Sydes SLR, dressed her up and took many photos. After doing different things with her hair, sitting her in different positions and fiddling with the whole setting I put the pictures on the computer and played with photoshop. I used different filters until I got what I was after which is the picture above.