Scavenger Hunt

a story involving 2 or more people you don't know

 a picture of an MSU building that no one in the class makes 

 a picture that everyone else is going to take

 a picture that everyone will understand without you telling them 

 a picture of something you're passionate about

 a picture of something you hate 

Roy DeCarava

Roy DeCarava was a photographer who took a lot of black and white images of jazz musicians during the 50s and 60s. This picture was among many taken by Roy DeCarava in 1957. It is of Billie Holiday and Hazel Scott at a party. This is such a unique candid picture of Billie Holiday. It looks like a homey setting that they're in because of the curtains in the background and the low-light setting of the lamp on the piano. It could have been at a house party as opposed to a club type of party. It looks like this could be Billie Holiday and Hazel Scott talking in between a set/songs or talking on break between songs. Or he could be playing and she could be singing. The way the photo was taken keeps the mystery of if this was during Billie Holiday talking or singing hidden, which intrigues people looking at the photograph. To me, I interpret the picture as Billie Holiday and Hazel Scott talking in between songs because of the way they are both sitting, their body language and gestures. Usually in most cases, vocalists stand up while singing, which gives me the indication that she isn't singing at this moment, that and the microphone doesn't look like it is close to her. It looks like it is a few inches in front of her. I also like that even though it is dim lighting, how you can see both of their faces in a way and you can see the music on the piano. I like how the picture also shows the closeness of the two performers through how closely they are sitting to one another, whether that's for musical purposes or not you can tell they have a musical relationship of some sort. I like how even if you don't know when this photograph was taken the details of the picture indicate that it is older, like how the piano keys are all worn, the microphone,  the fashion/dress of Billie Holiday, the lamp  and curtains all give away clues of the time period around when this photograph may have been taken. 

Six Photographs

 

Photograph by Patricia Bruno

This is a picture I took of my dog, Tara, from a few years ago. Unfortunately she passed away last January.  Tara was a gorgeous German Shepherd Husky mix and was the runt of her litter. I know that I'm not a photography major or any of that but I just love this picture of her. I love how she is looking at me in it and how it captures the colors of her fur coat in the picture. I really like the background how part of my deck, house, fence and trees are in it with a nice lighting. Somehow this picture came together in a beautiful way to me. It is definitely among one of the top favorites I have of my dog, even though all of the pictures I have of my dog are my favorite because she's in it.

Photograph by Loriel Letizia

This is a picture taken this past November of myself with my trombone in Hoboken, NJ overlooking the New York skyline. My roommate is a film major and I was privileged enough to have her take this picture along with a ton of other beautiful pictures for me to use to advertise for my trombone recital that I had last semester.  I love this picture for many reasons, for one I think that the scenery alone is gorgeous, the view of the New York skyline and the water and everything about it is so pretty to me. I also love this picture because my trombone is in it, and I love my trombone and music and everything that goes along with those things. I also think that it captures a bit of my personality in the picture through my facial expression and how you can see I'm excited and happy even when I'm trying to not be so serious for the photo shoot. 

Photograph by Unknown (Neighbor in Bohn Hall)

This is a meaningful picture to me. It was taken last semester during Hurricane Sandy when my friends (two of which who are my roommates) and myself were evacuated from our Village Apartments and moved to Bohn hall for about five days. We all were put in rooms of two, but the six of us stayed together in Loriel and my room and had a giant sleep over the whole time. This picture was taken on a Polaroid camera, which I think is really cool. I really like this picture because it shows how even through hard times, friendship prevailed. You can see that we're all happy here in the picture and together and you can tell it's an uplifting picture, it makes me happy whenever I look back at it and think about that week. 

Photograph by Nicholas Cittadino

For New Years this year, my family, my sisters boyfriend and I all spent it in Florida and went to Disney during that time. This picture was taken by my sisters boyfriend our second day in Florida when we went to Epcot. This picture is of my family and I in the Italy section in front of the Trevi Fountain there. I love it because it's a picture of my family and me, it's in Disney, and because we're 100% Italian so in a way it is a picture in front of something meaningful to us. Not to mention, the replica they have of it is still gorgeous and it's a beautiful piece of art, which makes it perfect scenery for this picture as well. 

Photograph by Unknown/Walt Disney World

In Walt Disney World- Magic Kingdom, they added to fantasy land and opened up a lot of new things. My favorite movie, princess and disney person and character is Belle from Beauty and the Beast and I was ecstatic when I got to see her cottage in fantasyland and the outside of the beast castle and the mini town and everything. It was incredible there. This picture is a great picture of Belle/Maurice's cottage that they built in fantasyland. I love how the scenery is shown in the picture and the lighting in it too. I like how even though the main point is the cottage, that the scenery around it is still a main focus within the picture.

Photograph by Patricia Bruno

As a die hard NY Giants fan, of course I have to put one of the pictures I took at a game I went to. This is from a game I went to on November 28, 2010 with my mom when the Giants played the Jaguars, and the Giants won. I honestly have probably over 300 pictures from this game alone. In this picture the Giants were on Offense and Eli (#10) is calling out getting ready to hike the ball to start the play. I like this picture a lot because it captures the intensity of the athletes close up in action, you can clearly see where they are on the filed without too much attention to it and because it's of the Giants of course. Even though the lighting isn't the best per say, I think it still has a nice lighting to it for the most part, you can still clearly see the athletes and the filed and everything in the picture is in a good focus. 

Introduction

Hey all, I'm Patricia Bruno but I go by Tricia. I'm most interested in music above all things, but I also enjoy other art forms among other things. Music is everything to me. I am a dual major with music education and music performance with concentration on trombone. I love my trombone and am a self taught musician from about the age of 10. I don't like when people thing because I am a music major that I have an "easier major" or have it easier then other majors, when in fact I do probably triple the amount of work then they do in a day. They also have this misunderstanding about the other art majors, it's not cool. I don't have much photographic experience, but I have taken pictures on a "grab and go" camera or a camera phone and stuff like that, just like everyone else. I'm not sure yet what camera I will be using, hopefully I will be using my roommates which I think is a type of cannon, so once I ask her and see I will get back to you all on that. 
My favorites:
Music: Like I said, I pretty much love all music and I'll listen to basically anything but not so much of country. I tend to listen to more punk, alternative, rock, slight screamo, emo, alt. rock, pop, radio stuff, classical, electronic, dance, instrumental and stuff of that nature.
Food: I love ice cream, I can always eat it. I love breakfast foods, penne vodka, pesto sauce, baked ziti, pastina, pizza, filet mignon, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting. 
Movie: Beauty and the Beast is and always will be my favorite movie =]
Book: I don't really have a favorite book.
TV Show: Pretty Little Liars, anything on GSN, Once Upon a Time and I'm now getting into Greys Anatomy. 
Photographer: I don't know if I really have a favorite photographer or not..

Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, California- Ansel Adams

I don't have a favorite picture per say, I was going to use this painting of melting clocks, but since it was a painting it wasn't appropriate for the assignment. I love scenery pictures I think when a photographer can capture the beauty of a scenery of nature, such as in this picture it's simply amazing. The way the photographer captured the nature and the mountain ranges and the details in this picture are astonishing and it's so aesthetically pleasing to me to look at. I also looked up the photographer a little and found out that he is one of the more famous photographers more for black and white works, but still for basically all of his work.