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Week 7 Blog Forum

My Neighborhood/Hometown 

I'm going to photograph Albany, Oregon. I actually currently live in Lebanon, but I grew up in Albany and for almost my whole life it's where I lived and went to school. It's still what I consider my home. 
A portrait I could shoot would be a worker in Albany. I would most likely do someone who works at a popular "just Albany" place, like Hasty Freeze. A landmark I could photograph would be something like the clocktower, or the train station area. An activity I could photograph could be the farmers market on Saturday, or a sporting event happening in town. 
The biggest photo challenge in this assignment will probably be the activity. I work a lot and don't always have time to make it to different things happening around Albany, and there's also the factor that I live on Lebanon. 

Two Photo Story Ideas

One interesting photo story I could do would be my sisters pregnant horse. Taking photos of how horses grow and go through doctor appointments and do things similar to humans when pregnant. I would do this at her barn, or wherever the appointments are. In doing this subject I would just need to be able to get near the horse and be around it while it's gong through changes and how humans interact with it. 
Another interesting photo story I could do could be a new development happening around the Linn-county area. I was hoping to get around and look up what was happening in the area and photograph something being built an the progress of it. I would just need to get permission to be on the site and have people comfortable with me photographing them. 

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