Winter Break CA Voice Thread

This visual essay prompted me to reflect back on my experience in California over winter break. I had flown over the ocean, seen the rather unimpressive coast near South Padre Island, Texas, and visited coastal areas of Norway. None of these modest ocean experiences compared to the Pacific coast near Big Sur in California. My friend Scott and I had driven down from Oakland the previous day, and arrived at Andrew Molera State Park well after dark. In the morning, we hiked to the coast and spent the rest of the day hiking along the shore and then up over 1500 feet of elevation gain to the bluff summit.

In terms of visual literacy, or "the ability to read, understand, value, and learn from visual materials"(Selfe 69), projects of this kind can lend themselves well to the development of impact, salience, coherence, and organization. One thing that my voicethread illustrates well is impact. It is coherent in that the pictures all share a common location, however a much better example of coherence is Genevieve's blog, found here. She does a fantastic job of combining themes and really making the division of the photograhs create a sense of place. She has motifs in each set, and the senses of pattern, line, and movement are balanced and recognizable. There is also no need for captions with her photo sets, as the necessary elements readily emerge from the selected images.