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Photo Story MC Week

My friend Bill starting his car to drive us out to lunch.

We got out too late and had to wait in a line in the parking lot.

Finally got our food; Bill can't wait to dig in.

Spicy Chicken Deluxe Sandwich (so much better than school food!)

Good bye Chick-fil-A :(

Story with a Photo - Chick fil A Cows

I took this photo when I went to Chick-fil-A during lunch on Tuesday, since my MC Week story is going out during lunch and taking advantage of the 32 extra minutes. I thought this photo was really funny because the cow is standing up with a weird look on its face and I know Chick-fil-A's advertisements often use cows telling people to "eat mor chikin."

MSJ MC Week Story

MC Week is great and all for celebrating the various cultures present at MSJ, but let's not overlook the biggest benefit to upperclassmen: the 1 hour, 8 minute lunch period. Compared to lunch's usual 36 minute interval, lunch during MC Week is the opportune time to venture out to previously unreachable lunch destinations and still have time to eat. For example, Monday I went to In-n-Out, and yesterday I went to Chik Fil A. Say what you want about my "lack of support for our school's clubs and traditions," but a majority of seniors (and a large contingent of other classes I'm sure of as well) don't even eat MC Week food, either because of their sky-high prices or, like me, they crave the opportunity to actually enjoy eating out instead of rushing to and back to school. The new ticket system is also an unnecessarily circumvented method to pay for food to prevent possible embezzlement from clubs and/or individuals. Honestly, seniors going out for lunch is just as big of a story as everyone else staying at school to buy overpriced, under-portioned food. True, the previous three years, I hailed MC Week for the variety of food compared to the prison-quality cafeteria food and for shortened classes and longer lunch, but the real highlight, if any, of MC week is the assembly we have on Friday. Everything really builds up to that. But as I have already survived 3 MC Weeks at MSJ, here is the accurate story of MC Week for most seniors as well as for me: a fifteen to twenty minute drive out to a restaurant, having the time to dine in and enjoy the food, and the car drive back to campus. All because of those extra 32 minutes.

Shutter Speed and Everything After

My partner is William Shih.

Lens Blog Photo #6

1. Fast shutter speed because it freezes the motion of the trucks and they are all in focus.
2. There are leading lines in this photo: the white traffic line and the middle divider both emphasize and lead to the fallen truck.
   The rule of thirds is also shown because the trucks are located on the gridlines and not directly centered in the photo.
3. One element of art is color because the truck closest on the right is red and blue, and the truck further down on the right is bright green.
4. Proportion is one principle of design used. The green truck is much further away, so it appears smaller than the blue truck. Similarly, the word "TRANSPORT" on the blue side of the truck appears larger than the "VEENSTRA" letters.

Tuesday with Farley's kids:

The shutter speed is 1/610 second.