House Photography Competition

This is another house competition which followed the Great Ashcroft Bake Off. 

Every student was be able to send only one photograph of the following categories:

• Natural World;
• Holiday;
• Fashion;
• Weather;
• Autumn;
• Dance;
• Multicultural London;
• Friendship;
• Sport;
• Animals;
• Wildcard (any photo that doesn't fit the rest of of the categories).

Points will be given to everyone who enters, like in the Bake Off. 200 points for the overall best photo in the competition and the 12 best photos will be used for a calendar to be sold to raise money for the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in West Hill. This is useful for CAS because I increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth in the area of photography. I had undertaken new challenges because I had never entered a photography competition before and considered the ethical implications of my actions such as making sure to not take any pictures of anyone without their permission and taking appropriate photographs. By taking different photos I developed new skills in photography and had become an inquirer, open-minded, a risk-taker, a thinker.

This activity is a challenge for me because I have never done any serious photography, only personal photographing to keep memories. However now I was looking at the purpose of my photographing differently, thinking in a slightly more analytical way so that my photographs represented their category appropriately and originally.

My aims for this activity were to gain as many house points as possible and improve my photography skills whilst also taking some original and inspiring photographs.

This activity was Creativity because photography within itself is a creative activity. Creativity is needed to form an interesting photograph whether it is in its composition or colour or in any aspect. The activity was also Service because the aim of the competition was to raise money for charity and I wanted to contribute to this.

I think that the result of the photography competition was great! There was a school break time dedicated to looking at the winners of each category with all of the participants of the school which was nearly everyone and the atmosphere was amazingly entertaining. Everyone was cheering on for their houses when the final points were being given out. There was not one specific winner for the whole competition, but one for each category. Discovery managed to win two of the categories: Dance and Autumn. I think that I have reached all of my learning outcomes and aims. I really like the photos which I decided to enter as they both reflect my experiences and memories, and fit to the categories appropriately, so are both personal for me and reflective.

These are the photographs which I entered: