P7: Reflection

Over the Edge

Tags: feet, water, dock, reflection
This is a picture of my children and some of their friends. Their father is a member of a hunting club and he took us there to take pictures. This was a dock located on the lake. Our children were sitting on the very narrow walkway leading to the dock. They were actually lying down on the walkway to capture this picture.
This was a tough picture to capture. I tried this shot from many angles. My first impression was to take it from the bank. However, the reflection of the dock was more prevalent than the feet. So, I decided to go to the walkway. However, the walkway was so narrow that I had to take it at an angle. In fact the children needed to lie down so I captured only their feet. They also had several imperfections on their legs, so I had to use the replacement tool to touch up the picture. After posting my colored picture, my group members suggested that I turn this into a black and white photo and I agreed. Overall, I was very satisfied with the final product.
I could use this picture in the discussion of families and in a math lesson talking about pairs. I could call upon my students’ inference skills and ask them who, what, where, how, and why questions about the picture. They could them write stories based on the recorded responses to these questions. I could also this picture and picture like this one to teach about pairs. I could capture several pictures with pairs and the students could identify how many pairs that they see in the picture. It is amazing what I could do with this picture.