What is my project?
My driving question is. How can I show my love for photography and show the human impact on Maui by making a photo gallery showing major human causes? So what led me to this was seeing lots of changes happen when the COVID-19 pandemic all started. When we all had to quarantine and everyone had to leave the island, our island was a ghost town and there was only the people that lived here were still here. I thought that was so crazy to see because we are so used to seeing all these tourists come in by the hundreds even thousands daily. So when they all got to come back and everyone was overwhelmed to see how much of them were here on the regular was crazy. That's why I came up with my project. I wanted to see what it looked like when no one was here and I wanted to see the beginning of the growth of the structures and places here on Maui. When I first started to brainstorm about my project I was just going to how the beaches changed over the years but then when I started to do more research there were a lot of big changes not on the beach but with industrial places. For example, old buildings have been there for 20+ years and no one would have thought it was. I thought it would be better to show spots around the island that people go through everyday in their everyday life.
For my project, I came up with doing a before and after picture from old Maui to the new 2021 Maui. In all I wanted to showcase 10 pictures of Maui, one half will be the old picture and the other half will be the new picture. Along with those 10 pictures, there will also be a short one-paragraph description stating where the picture was taken, what year the old picture was taken, and some fun facts about the location. So the first step of my project was my research. This was the more hard part of my project it was challenging to find good pictures for each location. The places that I found were. Old Maui High, Haleakala, Paia, Wailuku, Lahaina Harbor, Front SRT in Lahaina, Iao Valley, The Sheraton is also known as Black Rock, The Pali going to Lahaina. There was one more and it was ka'anapali stone church but we could make it out there in time so in all 9 pictures total. After all the research was done I got to start having fun, It was now time to start taking pictures. I loved this part of my project because I could see the changes in person. After all the pictures were taken it was time to start editing. Editing was hard for me at first cause I'm not the best at it but this is when My mentor came in clutch to help me out with this stage of my project. Everything is done being edited I now get to print out my photos and put it all together for display.
For my project, I came up with doing a before and after picture from old Maui to the new 2021 Maui. In all I wanted to showcase 10 pictures of Maui, one half will be the old picture and the other half will be the new picture. Along with those 10 pictures, there will also be a short one-paragraph description stating where the picture was taken, what year the old picture was taken, and some fun facts about the location. So the first step of my project was my research. This was the more hard part of my project it was challenging to find good pictures for each location. The places that I found were. Old Maui High, Haleakala, Paia, Wailuku, Lahaina Harbor, Front SRT in Lahaina, Iao Valley, The Sheraton is also known as Black Rock, The Pali going to Lahaina. There was one more and it was ka'anapali stone church but we could make it out there in time so in all 9 pictures total. After all the research was done I got to start having fun, It was now time to start taking pictures. I loved this part of my project because I could see the changes in person. After all the pictures were taken it was time to start editing. Editing was hard for me at first cause I'm not the best at it but this is when My mentor came in clutch to help me out with this stage of my project. Everything is done being edited I now get to print out my photos and put it all together for display.
Argumentative Essay
Final Presentation
21st century skills that I used
Some skills that I have learned and used during my project would be communication skills and creativity. For communication I had to keep in contact with my mentor and communicate with her during my project. She helped me alot during my project and the main skill we used was communication. As for creativity my entire project is based off of creativity and I used it to come up with my project and I used it while I was taking all of my pictures for my project. Another skill that I used would be critical thinking. I had to really put my foot down and think about how I wanted my project to come out and how I wanted to make people feel when they saw my project. It was difficult at first but the outcome of my project makes me very proud of myself and I hope that everyone enjoys my project as much as I did.