Africa & Abandoned Theme Parks

1. Tell me which amusement park featured in the two articles that you would like to visit and take your camera along and what about that park made you want to go there. Write at least a paragraph

Takakanonuma Greenland, Hobara, Japan

 This park has a super cool location, that is a lot different than what i am used to seeing. The park also has super cool fog which adds to the whole abandoned theme. The park is very overgrown and rusty just like you would expect it to be. I also really like how large the rides are, its just like out modern day theme parks.

         
2. Post one photo from that park. You may use the photos from the link, or you can google an entirely new photo. I would prefer to see a photo of the park in disrepair and not a photo of it when it was still operating.

3. Think of at least FIVE other unusual places you think would be of interest to photographers. List them.

Prypiat, Ukraine

Shidaka’s Utopia, Beppu, Kyushu, Japan

Nara Dreamland, Nara, Japan

Spreepark, Berlin, Germany

Koka Family Land, Shiga, Japan

4. Use google or another search engine to research ONE of your five places and see if anyone has already started documenting that place. If you find that someone has already started - post at least one photo of their work.

5. Write a paragraph about why you think that it would be fun to document that location. Tell me what interests you about that place and what kind of photos you could expect to take there.
      I would love to go to that location because it has a lot of color. I also like it because  it has the setting of some of the tv shows i watch. It would be very fun to travel to a different country to take pictures.

6. Tell me what it would take for you to go and take photos at your location. What would you need as far as equipment goes, travel plans, expenses you might encounter and what laws you would have to take into consideration to take photos at your spot.
I would need a camera some batteries and some extra sd cards. Also need some lighting for some shot, tripods. I would need about 5000 for the plane tickets and food and a place to sleep.

Africa

In this photographers experience, Africa's wildlife is an amazing & fascinating thing to study. Africa is so full of unique wildlife, vast plains & desserts. This Continent is facing a drought and poaching, though. Donating to specific charities such as, Tusk & The Nature Conservancy are ways to help Africa & preserve their wildlife. 

1   I chose this picture as my favorite because it is so unique and captures the elephant tribe perfectly.

2   Rule of Thirds: very front elephant placement, Framing: fit all elephants, Balance: elephants in a line traveling through grass beginning in the right to the left side of frame. Simplicity: all subjects fit and there's nothing in the picture besides elephants and plains.

3  Brandt does not use telephoto lenses because he believes that being close to the animals make a huge difference in his ability to reveal their personality.

4  Brandt takes these photos to support Africa's wildlife and create a urgency to help them. Poaching and droughts have been devastating Africa's wildlife population.

5  Help others notice the animals beauty and personality. Prove to others telephoto lenses are not needed for amazing photographs. 

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.