Connecticut, CT
Connecticut is a state located in the New
England region of the northeastern United States
of America. Southwestern Connecticut is also
considered part of the New York metropolitan
area. Connecticut is the 29th most populous
state with 3.4 million residents and ranked 48th
in size by area, making it the 4th most densely
populated state.
Called the "Constitution State," Connecticut has
a long history dating from the early colonial
times, and was influential in the development of
early American government. While Connecticut's
first European settlers were Dutch, the first
major settlements were established in the 1630s
by the English.
Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland
from the Massachusetts Bay colony and founded
what would become the Connecticut Colony; other
settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook
Colony and the New Haven Colony.
Both the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies
established documents of Fundamental Orders,
considered the first constitutions in North
America. In 1662, the disparate colonies merged
under a royal charter, making Connecticut a
crown colony.
This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies
that revolted against British rule in the
American Revolution. Connecticut enjoys a
temperate climate thanks to its long coastline
on the Long Island Sound. This has given the
state a strong maritime tradition. Modern
Connecticut is also known for its wealth.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Connecticut had
ready access to raw materials which helped to
develop a strong manufacturing industry. In the
19th and 20th centuries, financial organizations
flourished: first insurance companies in
Hartford, then hedge funds along the Gold Coast.
This prosperity has helped give Connecticut the
highest per capita income and median household
income in the country.
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Some Forms Of Art Photography
by Douglas M. Parks
There are about as many varieties of art photography
as there are photographers. Although you could
probably argue that your beach vacation snapshots
could be called art, you won't find a gallery to
hang them. But if you did something extremely
different and interesting with your beach
photograph, such as go to a beach entirely made up
of different colored beach balls rather than a real
beach, then that might qualify as art photography.
Let's look at some of the varieties seen in
galleries today.
Photojournalism
This
kind of art photography is much harder than it first
sounds like. How many college students do you know
have a poster of Albert Einstein sticking out his
tongue or of that one lone Chinese demonstrator who
stopped a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square? Those
photos are art. They tell far more stories than the
actual newspaper stories they were originally used
to illustrate.
The
art of photojournalism lies partially in being in
the right place at the right time but also choosing
which photo to select. It has to capture the essence
of a situation or a story with one image. This kind
of art photography is sort of a visual haiku.
Digital Tricks
You
don't need a fancy photography studio in order to
create art photography. You do need a computer and
an excellent image program, such as PhotoShop.
There, you take a photograph as the framework for
which your artistic expression is loosened. For
some, the challenge is in making a fake photograph
look identical to a real photograph. Some make a
real photograph as beautiful as possible. The sky's
the limit with this type of art photography.
Portraits
The
bread and butter of a professional photographer's
trade is in portraits - of people, pets, buildings
or whatever. The usual portrait, although framed and
hung on a wall, is not often considered art
photography. The art is when these portraits are
taken just left of center. Instead of stiff poses
looking artificially perfect, another approach is
taken.
Instead of the usual portrait of a little girl in a
dress, the photographer could mount a ladder and
look down on the girl spinning in play. That would
be art photography, even though it may be hard to
tell the features of the little girl. It is still a
portrait, but captures more about the girl than just
what she looked like on a given day.
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