I’ve been a student for the past 17 years of my life. It’s something that I’ve just become used to because I attended school for so long. There have been many ups and downs along the way. However, attending Florida State University impacted me the most. I’ve grown so much in the past five years in ways that I could never imagine. I am so thankful and blessed for my opportunity to attend this wonderful University. I decided to talk about the university because I love it so much.
One of my favorite memories at Florida State University was becoming a University Ambassador (also known as a tour guide) and being able to share my love and experiences with other prospective students and families. This position on campus was unlike any other. My coworkers were not just my coworkers but became a new family away from home.
I decided to edit a picture of the famous Wescott fountain because it is the last part where we end the tour of our beautiful campus. These experiences I had with random strangers on tour impacted me more than I would have thought. Each tour allowed me to reflect on my time spent at Florida State University due to the questions being asked on tour.
I wanted to focus on the fountain because it is a key tradition on campus as well as the tour. many may not know this but on your very last time giving a tour you get to be thrown in the fountain as a way to conclude your time being an ambassador. I think this is one of the coolest traditions ever. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to be thrown in due to COVID but hopefully one day I get the chance. Either way, I will always be proud to be a Nole.
Hi Cameron!
I loved the story you told behind the fountain, it sounds like such a cool idea to be a tour guide for the university. Your crop did allow for the photo to be re-focused on the fountain, although I would’ve loved to see an even greater usage of the rule of thirds. I think another issue may have been that the photo became a little blurry once it was cropped and zoomed in, this might be fixed in the original photo by the poster increasing the amount of pixels to make it clearer. Perhaps if you had focused in on the fountain and the person sitting near it, it might have changed the meaning of the photo even more, focusing in on experiences you had with random strangers here. Hope that you have the opportunity to get thrown in one day!
Hi Cameron,
Thank you for sharing your experiences as an on campus Nole. As a iSchool student, I have never been to the FSU campus, and your love of the campus has made me want to come for a visit! I wonder if cropping the photo as a horizontal rectangle with the fountain at the lower right third and the entrance towers at the top left third would have given the focus you wanted for the fountain and added even more visual interest.