Past and Present

This week we took the kids to explore the old brick kilns on Highway 278. They found a lot of interesting ways to photograph the history of their region. They also continued to photograph each other — friends are an integral part of their community — and themselves, proving for an interesting mix of past and present.

Karlie Bishop

The picture relates to me by how different I look in the mornings than I do in the afternoon.

Kiersten Brose

The picture of the gate makes me think of entering a new land, and being able to explore a new place.

Morgan Clark

This picture shows a road. I chose this because I really enjoy the lighting and perspective.    

Joseph Edwards

I also took the picture of Jeremiah to show what the people a long time ago had to ride to get from one toward the next.

Jeremiah McDonald

I climbed the pole for the fun of it.

Alexis Nagel

I chose this picture because it shows how society and nature combine.

Kaila Rife

The eye in this photo only show the reflection of the camera, not showing who the photo’s of, or anything else happening other than in the eye’s mirror.

Alyssa Sherritt

The picture of Elijah and I represents that you can take some time to have fun in life, enjoy your friends and make memories with the ones you care about. I wanted to take the picture because Elijah felt like being funny and wanted to make a funny face so I took the picture.

Documentary of the Self

More images from the kids! This batch focuses on the self, friends, and family. Kids were instructed to document their community through their eyes, as they see it: this includes them and their loves ones of course!

Elijah Ailiff

Me and Alissa, we are dating and we are in love.

Sophie Anderson

I loved taking the camera everywhere and photographing people, places, and things.

Haylie Bishop

The picture of Ethan and Ashly because I don’t even know why.

Jessamin Blake

I wanted to photograph the earring and hair because it just looked pretty.

Breanna Edwards

I loved the pic of Eli on the camera and showing his face off for the camera.

Nevaha Lewis

I take the selfie because it is cool.    

Dylan Mays

I chose my first picture because it was my entire group in one place.

   

Ciara McKinney

The picture of my dog reminds me of when we get ready to go on walks.

Wise Visions

Here are more images from our older kids! They see their community in both literal and abstract ways, from lightning bugs streaking across the night sky to highways and flowers; unknown but inviting symbols; stark selfies; and confounding situations. Enjoy their visions.

Nova Barone

I was taking a night picture of my tree and I caught a firefly as it was moving through the frame. It looked like a green strand of light and I called it the green UFO.

James Berry

The last photo I chose had been taken from the top of the Hocking fire tower, overlooking the nearby highway, the high angle and exposure of the shot done well to present the curvature of the highway and surrounding landscape while being framed by the window area I took it from.

Gage Bruce

My sis took this one.

Alyson Evans

The symbol on the wrist is how some people stay together. It is also a way people show the meaning of friendship and relationship.

Brianna Loudner

Selfies can be a way of expression.

Casey Maddey

I chose the picture of my backyard because it shows how modern/plain the yards of some houses during this time period look.

Chaz Weeks

The intention was to zoom in to be able to see the guys face. But to capture how close he was to nature with no doors.    

August Nagel

I chose this picture because it captures my sisters while they are young.

Images Hot of the Press

Welcome back to the Circle Kids with Cameras blog for summer 2015! This year the kids are focusing on making a community documentary. Every group will brainstorm ideas, go on field trips, and contribute their unique perspective to the collaborative project. Here we have images from our first group, many of whom decided to focus on nature: trees, greenery, water, light, animals.

Isabella Anderson

This picture to me looks cool at how the light shines through the tree. It also makes the leaves that are not covered in light look like a darker green and the ones that are covered by light look like a neon green.

Winter Barone

The water I like because it presents nature and I love nature. And I hope everybody likes my pictures.

Chris Blackstone

I like this pic because I go here a lot and it is raining.

Zander Clark

I took the picture of the bear with arrows in it because I like archery. I also took it because I had good accuracy on it. I like it because you can see the gazelle's head in the background.

Caitlyn Hall

I like this picture because this beetle was having trouble getting to its belly to I took a picture. I like how you can see the colors on the beetle.

Ethan Hall

I chose this picture because it was taken at Hocking College's pond. I like it cause of the low light situation. I like this picture because of the vines that come down through the picture.

Jasmine Koon

This picture is special because he is the founder of Nelsonville and how his grave is so small.

Brandon Russell

Another picture I chose is of the bottom of the hardware and I liked it because of how dark it was at the time I took the picture.

Cameron Weekley

This is a picture of my sister in the church at breakfast.