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Week 5 - extreme perspective photography task.
Middlesex University: Product Design and Engineering first year undergraduates...
A woman watches the waterfalls this morning in Great Falls Park in Great Falls, Virginia. At first I didn't realize she was in the picture but it turned out to really lead the eye towards the falls. I especially love how her hat points right to the main subject in the photo.
this was shot at 15mm. usually the perspective distortion is pretty bad at that focal length. i'm not sure if it's better to correct or simply shoot level and then crop.
The students and teachers of Perspectives Middle Academy (located in Auburn Gresham) are making tremendous academic and social emotional learning growth. Just this past year SY 2013-2014, they made almost two (2) grade levels of growth in both math and reading.
Photos by David Terry
This is the front of the levee at Barker Reservoir just to the side of the spillway. It’s almost 40 ft high. The backside is higher as the reservoir is dug down to hold more water. The levee stretches roughly 72,000 feet long to make the downstream sides of the reservoir.
Addicks Reservoir, on the other side of the interstate, rises 50 ft on the outside, deeper inside, and stretches nearly 61,000 ft.
Together they are about 26,000 acres of land, and are designed to hold about 510,000,000 cubic meters of water. Yes, you read that right.
During Hurricane Harvey, both reservoirs filled to dangerously near the top levels. If water had started to spill over the top of these earthen dams, they could erode and the whole levee would collapse basically killing everyone.
The point of this is just to help people who weren’t here to see just exactly how much water was sitting in these reservoirs during the storm, and once they started releasing water to prevent catastrophic failure, why the flooding was so incredible.
It should be noted both of these are dry reservoirs, meaning they only fill with water when it rains. Otherwise they are regular nature preserves with parks and bike paths and baseball fields and BBQ pavilions.
That’s how much rain fell. And that’s how much water came out and met the regular runoff and put 41” of water in our house.
The wide open in the background gives a good idea of this high and wide jump, although it wasn't as high as it looks here.