Carly Motion and Sequence Critique

The first picture of the train captures the essence of how fast things move and how easily our life can get out of control because of the blurred motion. Carly wanted to bring the idea of trains in the city back to America because she feels that we don't have any. The blurred motion creates converging lines all throughout the photo. In the sequence the lighting changes because as the train moves, it passes the building that creates darkness in the first photo to make the second photo lighter. In San Antonio, we obviously don't have gondola's because we live in a relatively flat county so Carly wanted to capture the sequence of a moving gondola. She used stop motion to convey this image and three planes vertically that all have a different shade of darkness for composition. The first plane is darkest with the trees and with each plane gets lighter up into the nearly white sky. The last picture is of Carly's best friend back home dancing. The idea behind this picture was to represent all the things Carly left behind, with her friends and the city of Calgary defined in the background of the picture. The cracks in the sidewalk add a lot compositionally because the help balance out the darkness of the pine tree.