Photography Meets Children's Books

            Today I began looking through my photos of Siempre Verde from my last two trips. It was really difficult to find my photos from the Middle School Trip since they were on my mom’s old laptop. I had to hunt down a computer charger for her computer and begin the process of transferring photos to a new hard drive. I really loved looking through these photos because they brought back the best memories of my summer going into eighth grade. My favorite photo was one of all of the girls in the bunkroom at the lodge. After the very long conversion process, I got all of the photos on my school laptop and began sorting through them. Not pleased with the quality of these photos, I downloaded all of the photos from my most recent trip to Siempre Verde in October of 2013. Since I loved everyone on this particular trip so much, I decided that I would dedicate my book to the group of individuals on the trip.

            Starting at around 10:30 am, I finished the downloading process and began sorting out the photos for each of the pages. I was surprised by how many photos I had that could be used for each of the pages. I had photos of the gazebo, countryside, clouds, flowers, animals, etc. There were, however, many photos that I did not have to complete my book. For example, we never ended up going to the hot springs for my sophomore year trip. So, I would have to ask Mr. Reynolds or Karey to see if they had any that I could use. After school, I looked for photos that could work for the last half of my book. Ideally, I would like to have all of the illustrations be of photos taken by actual members of the Lovett community. This would not only save me time on a bibliography, but also it would show the readers that they can see all of the illustrations in real life if they take a trip to Siempre Verde. By the end of the day, I had a full folder of images that could be used to portray the different words in my book. It is going to be really fun starting to piece the book together and combine the illustrations with the text.