Week 8 - My Trip to NC

Outside of the memorial are eighteen glass tile mosiac butterflies. "Butterflies were chosen to decorate the garden for two reasons: To honor the children of Terezin and to symbolize the cars new purpose"(Whitwell Children's Holocaust Memorial, Whitwell, TN).


This photo is the outside of the railcar with its original numbers. If you add all these numbers together, they equal eighteen. I think this is more than coincidence. On the literature is given out at the memorial, it says "To honor the children of Terezin and to symbolize the new life and purpose of the car (No longer is it a symbol of death; rather, it is a symbol of new life)" (Whitwell Children's Holocaust Memorial, Whitwell, TN).

Week 8 - My Trip to NC

In this glass case are paperclips of all shapes and sizes. The area is nine feet long, six feet wide, and two feet deep. There is another case on the other side. It was a very moving memorial. The railcar is an authentic German railcar that was used to transport people to the concentration camps. It was dedicated in November of 2001.

Week 8 - My Trip to NC and TN

Well, I made it. I've been waiting for a long time to see this. This is the Children's Holocaust Memorial at the Whitwell Middle School in Whitwell, TN. It was everything I hoped it would be and more. Whitewell built a new school and created a "house" for the railcar. It is filled with 11 million paperclips in memory of the 6 million jewish people that died in the holocaust and another 5 million for all the other people who died too. In the memorial next to the car houses another 11 million clips that the children collected from all of the 50 states and 7 continents.

Week 8 - My Trip to NC

This is part of the "Inn" that my mother works at. The Old Edwards Inn & Spa occupies most of the town of Highlands, NC

Week 8 - My Trip to NC

These are the "Blue" Mountains that we pass when we go to my mothers house. They are blue at all times, whatever time of the day and whatever lighting conditions. We've got big hills in Vermont, but these are bigger.

Week 8 - My Trip to NC

I was trying to use the rule of thirds and composition. Though not all the color is in bloom, I thought that this was still an interesting photo. I just love the ole wooden chair

Week 8 - My Trip to NC

Spring has sprung in North Carolina. I took advantage of that fact and started snapping away at all the color I could find.

Week 7 - Photoshop Picture

Our assignment this week was to take one of the photos I manipulated in Photoshop and post it to my blog. This is two pictures. The background was a picture of a beautiful frost pattern I found one morning and the other picture of my daughter and granddaughter was cut and pasted on top of it. This project was a lot of fun.

Week 6 For Fun

I took this picture this afternoon, it is a reflection in a puddle of water and snow. I thought it was really interesting.

Week 6 - For Fun

This is a picture of the same tree I used in the lighting assignment, only close up. It looks life spring is finally coming. The snow is melting and refreezing and the ice/water created an interesting icicle pattern.

Week 6 - Light

Not the most attractive photos I've taken. The assignment was find one object and take a picture of it a different times of the day. I chose morning, afternoon, and evening. I definately can see how lighting affects the subject. Depending on the time of day and the light available, objects appear lighter or darker, and coloring is different.

Week 6 - Just for Fun

This photo is just for fun. I was outside taking pictures of one object at different times of the day to see what the light does to the object (posting later). I just thought I would try and capture the water as it came off my roof. I was impressed, this is my first attempt at capturing movement.

For Fun

I took this picture this afternoon, just for fun. It does go with the lesson of landscapes this week. I just love this ole' dam. Community members are presently working to get this dam and surrounding buildings on the historical registry. Presently, the Passumpsic Land Trust owns the dam and wants to remove it. It's a pretty heated battle in town. Anyway, enough of the politics, it was just a really pretty picture this afternoon.