Selena-biography

Ting-Yun Chen, also known as Selena or Sunset, was born in Tainan, an ancient and cultural city in South Taiwan. She moved to North Taiwan in 2005, where she received a B.A. in Chinese Cultural Studies from National Centre University in 2009. That year she returned to the South and started her Masters degree from National Cheng Kung University which she completed in 2012. Here, she was a research assistant and focused on gender and sexuality.

Selena loves everything about Art and the sense of beauty. That's why she’s interested in film, reading, writing, music, ballroom dancing and video games. In her life, she has paid all her attention to the art of ‘play’ -- Life for her is a big game, what she wants to do is enjoy her golden years, make things interesting, do her best, and keep working hard. Usually, she is a rational person and sometimes she can be romantic -- she quit her job to come to Vancouver and started an extremely different life studying English at International House Language School in 2013, all because she missed her boyfriend.









Now, she is taking a photography and blogging course, where she is learning how to express stories and feelings through the camera. By using cell phones, she understands how easy it is to take pictures and how difficult it is to take good pictures!

She loves how her life has changed. Life can never be predicted, the only thing you can do is find happiness and positivity, like Selena.

BIOGRAPHY

Tais Gomes is a journalist who was born in the most popular city of Brazil: Sao Paulo, in 1986. Her city never sleeps, but she doesn’t mind that. She is used to this crazy atmosphere. She is always busy studying, working, driving, helping people or meeting friends and sometimes doing all things at the same time. She is curious, talkative and loves to know about different cultures. Her big passions are spending time with her family and traveling to new places.

Tais received a B.A. degree in Social Communications from Estacio University, and two diplomas in TV Broadcasting and Speaking from SENAC. She spent the last three years as a TV reporter for TV Record Group. As a journalist, she loves interviewing people, because it’s a way to discover interesting things.

Her current challenge is living independently in Canada for eight months to study English at International House Language School. This is very important for her personal growth.

Here, she is taking a photography and blogging course, because it’s a perfect way to express what she sees and feels.

 What she appreciates most in her life is Faith; Faith in dreams, in life and mainly in God.

Selena #1 Abstract Objects

1) How did this assignment help you to see everyday object differently?
     It lets me know how different it could be if we change the way that we used to see. Interestingly, when the colors were taken away, the lines, shapes and patterns would be clearer. We could focus on the structure and the construct more. Moreover, in a close-up distance, things become unrecognizable and  deformed. It's tricky because we were used to recognized object by shapes, which we might seem it was a kind of clue, but now we are cheated by it. However, it's still charming, especially via a camera lens, and as dramatic as the black and white movie in my mind.

2) How do the photos you've selected make you feel?
    Do they remind you of something else?

     The first picture make me feel sad. It's sorrowful for me when something or someone waiting somewhere but no one noticed them. They piled up and faced to the sunshine, like many abandon pets gathered or the elder sit in front of the home. They are waiting for someone special who have never come back.  

     The second picture looks like some nebula. It's a small and magical universe around me. When you see it, you would find some secret inside which might make you become beautiful.

     The third picture is similar to timer or clock. Most people might be confused when they saw a circular with some numbers. For me, it's more like a sundial, and that's why I always make the picture associate with ancient cultures such as Maya and Egypt whenever I have seen. Therefore, I reckon that it's an eternal exist in the world as the time.

1. Lots of chairs put together.
2. An eye shadows.
3.A heating bottom.

abstract photo - bob-

DO you know what is this photo?   

After capturing this photo, I know that all kinds of objects which exist all over the world hide different kinds of beauty , although we can’t recognize them. It makes me feel miraculous. 

Before taking this photo, I knew a dish scrubber is a dirty object. However, I realized that this object has beauty on the other side.

   Next picture is toilet tissue.  But  no one can think it is just toilet tissue.  It looks like a tunnel or tube and so on.  I think it is really abstract.

Abstract object

  You just need to change your angle a little bit and you can make a normal thing you see everyday becomes art. That is the magic of photography.
   My pictures remind me of an image in fairy tales. It's mysterious, dramatic and fantasy. Feeling like something will happen next, but you don't know what it is. 


Answer : Top of the bottle / The shadow of the tree on the wall
everyday 

ABSTRACT OBJECTS

imagine 1: shoe lace hole

imagine 2: cup of tea

- How did this assignment help you to see everyday objects differently?
This assignment help me to see more carefully everyday objects, especially to think more about lines, shadows, texture and everything that could make a real object into an abstract one. Details are really important and this exercise helped me to look at them more closely.

- How do the photos you have selected make you feel? 

The photos I've selected make me feel relaxed, I love BW pictures and I think they are so stylish and fascinating.

- Do they remind you of something else?
They just remind me of my first photo class experience. :)