This was an Art 101 project for the University of New Mexico.

1. Tim Wesselman
03/23/09
ArtH 101
Mountains: Awe-Inspiring
Journal of Images Photography Assignments Personal Reflection
This project is about displaying the fourteen elements of art in pictures that we the
students take. We were told to pick topics and that were interesting to us that we could
display the elements of art in. The topic that I chose, was the mountains and the underling
theme that I picked was Awe-Inspiring.
I chose the mountains for my topic for different several reasons. Art is any thing that
makes you feel inspired and touched by viewing it. The mountains are one of the most
amazing things that I feel a person can ever see. They are large and magnificent, they
allow you to realize how small you really are when you observe them. They can seem
endless if you find a good spot to sit and just take in the site. I enjoy hiking, camping and
the outdoors in general so picking the mountains allowed me to go out and see and
experience nature.
The theme that I selected was Awe-Inspiring. I decided on this theme for my project
because it is hard not to be inspired, and to want to just live when you take in an amazing
view. A theme is an underlining principle that should be evident in every piece of work in
the project. I hope that my project will inspire all who view it to go out and take in a
beautiful view of the mountains for themselves. The deeper you go into mountains and
the further you get from the modern world the better your experience will be.

2. I decided to go on a trip up to northern New Mexico and southern Colorado to get the
pictures that I needed for this project and to go snowboarding up at wolf creek. The
camera that I used for the project was a Canon Power Shot SD 790. This camera is
around a year old and takes 10 mega pixel pictures. With confidence in my camera and
vehicle, my friend Josh and I left for Chama New Mexico on Tuesday March
Seventeenth. We got to my family’s cabin around sunset just in time for me to go up on
the hill and snap a few photos of the Brazos Cliffs and the surrounding Valley before it
got dark. I took several of the pictures that are in my Journal of images at this time. I
took the picture that I used for the artistic element of Value. The picture was taken high
up on a hill in the Brazos Mountains and it is of the light contrast from the rock that is
shown in the fore ground of the photo, to the Brazos Cliffs in the background. That
picture was on of my favorites. The picture I used to show the artistic element of space
was also one of my favorites. It was taken on that same hill, of a dead tree that was
standing all alone and it had the peak of the mountain across the valley in its background
and space.
The pictures that I took next were on the road from Chama to Colorado and the Wolf
Creek Ski Area. Here I took several pictures that I had to put into my Journal. The picture
that I used to show the artistic element of Variety was one of the better photos that I took
on the way to the ski area. This picture has many different forms of verity in it from the
shapes to the colors to the different lines that lead back towards the mountains. My other
favorite picture that I took during this ride up was the one that I used for scale. I felt that
it truly showed the grandness of the mountain in the background. I liked how you could
see the road get smaller and smaller until it disappeared into the mountainside.

3. The next set of pictures that I took and some of my all time favorites were on top of the
mountain on Wolf Creek ski area. The picture that I used for texture was my all time
favorite picture of the journal. It looked over the backside of the ski area and it showed an
endless view of enormous rolling mountains that stretched on as far as the eye could see.
The scattered clouds and snow added a texture that one might think of as fluffy and soft,
but the huge Mountains added in a harsh rough feel to the picture. This was truly a breath
taking site in person.
I put all of these photographs together and they made A very nice journal. The pictures
are diverse and most do not look alike and that was one of my goals. My Main goal was
to take Inspiring pictures that would make the viewers want to go out and have a look for
themselves. I feel that I have succeeded in this mission, because the pictures have
inspired me.
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