Ryan's Journalism blog

  If you walk though downtown Corvallis, you will come across a game store called Guardian Games. Guardian Games has been opened since 2017 and they sell everything from board games, Pokémon, DnD, plastic models, and star wars unlimited.  Guardian Games also host weekly events like Magic the Gathering on Tuesdays from 6pm-9pm, Star Wars Unlimited on Thursday from 5:30pm-9pm, and Warhammer 40k on Sundays from 12am-6pm. Guardian Games supplies demo board games for people to check out and play for free, so get one of your friends and meet new people at your local Guardian Games. They also have a location in Portland and Aloha Oregon. 

  Edward Weston Early Life: Edward Weston was born March 24th, 1986. He is best known for his images of natural forms, landscape, and nudes. Edward was born into a family where his father was a medical doctor and his grandfather was professor of literature, but he did not find interest in books and did not finish high school. At age 16, he got his first camera as a gift from his father. Edward went to Illinois College of Photography and when he graduated in 1911, he moved to California where he spent most of his life.  Early Life: By his mid 30’s, Edward was a skilled portrait Photographer working in the Los Angeles suburb of Glenvill. His works in the mid 1920’s he worked at a photographic salon. His works were better-constructed versions of the standard fare of those who worked in the Pictorialism style. Pictorialism style deals with photographers' limited paintings by suppressing detail. Edward also worked on manipulating images in a darkroom, and also did traditional painting

 While I was walking though Linn Benton Community College with my classmates and instructor, we came across this wall mural, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to get a photo that was a little further away  For the second photo, I also came across a flower that I wanted to get a close-up photo.  With the last photo, I did a medium shot with Paster Tyler from Salem First Baptist Church's Young Adults Group. 

Hello, my name is Ryan and I am taking a Photojournalism class at Linn Benton Community College. My Major is Psychology, I am taking photojournalism becuase I want to get better at taking photos since I have no photography experience. One of my favorite photos that I have taken this summer was of my cat Albus who is part Main Coon.  Three goals that I have for this class is to take better photos since I have no experiences with photography, how use a fancier camera other then my phone so that I can get better pictures, and also getting out of my comfort zone and taking photos of strangers and interviewing them. I want to focuse on these goals because I feel like these are important to life. As I walking around campus yesterday I was taking photos for my first blog and I wanted to share these three photos that I found interesting.  This is a mural that I found that was apart of where the athletics hall is. These are some trees that I found though a path on campus.  I found some people p