Going Native Project
For this project, we partnered with The Escondido Creek Conservancy to create a new logo design for them. They work to preserve the Escondido Creek Watershed located in North County San Diego, California. The Conservancy contacted us about creating revamped logo designs to draw people in to learn and engage more with the conservancy. Below is the first and then final draft of my logo designs for the Conservancy.
My inspiration for the logo above is that firstly the Escondido Creek Watershed has many different species of plants and animals it works hard to protect. This is represented by the tree. Secondly, as the name implies, the main focus of the watershed is around running water, a river. I wanted to incorporate both of these components into the designed and used the river ti replace the trunk of the tree, then placing the letters ECC on top, standing for the Escondido Creek Conservancy.
I then created the logo shown above to showcase another possible logo design. Our teacher told us that we need to really simplify our images, so I decided to use a silhouette. I choose to pick an animal to depict and choose a bird to embody that vision. Then, I simply added the letters again of the conservancy, this time incorporating the word the, as the conservancy stated they desired.
Native Species
In our Environmental Science class, we were each given a plant or animal species native to San Diego. We then had to compile data and photos of that particular species. I was given the California Buckwheat, and my data about it is shown in the document below.
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Favorite Photo of the Semester
It's a somewhat hard decision to make, which photo is my favorite, but on the other hard, not really. I took this photo pretty early on in the year and its been my favorite since. I love the effect of using a very fast shutter shutter speed so I could capture the intricate details of the individual grains of chalk. I also like the shallow depth of field, so that the focus is drawn to the foreground, not the background.