activity 1C and 1D

I found this activity very interesting but at the same time i thought it was a bit difficult. I was given a total of 26 photos of a girl who i don't know very well growing up. I had to look at these photos and find out what they told me, I looked at different things such as who she was with, her style, clothes, surroundings, family etc.

Some of the things I found out about Catriana was that she was:

• Outgoing
• sociable
• creative
• adventurous
• friendly
• likes music
• confidant
• popular
• unique
• cuddly

My notes on my findings:

From what I can see from the photos that Catriana gave me, I think she is quite close with her family. I think she has a younger brother, maybe two or three years younger than herself. Catrianan comes from a family of four, herself, mum, dad, and brother. It looks like she gets on well with her family. In both photos with her and her brother, they are both smiling and look really happy.

I think Catriana may be about 19 years old. I think her house looked quite modern in one of the pictures considering it was taken maybe about seventeen eighteen years ago. It looked like her family had a dishwasher, which is pretty unusual for so long ago?

To me Catrianan looks like a very creative person. there are several pictures of her dressed up, one being her wearing what looked like her mums jewellery. There is also another couple of pictures of her dressed up, one as a princess/fairy? but its not just Catrianan in this picture there is another five of her friends and they are all dressed up the same. This tells me that they were either going to a princess/fairy party, or they were all just really close friends and wanted to be the same as each other.

Catrianan looks like she has a boyfriend, as the same guy appears in three different pictures, this tells me that she is quite comfortable with him.

Looking at the pictures with her and her friends, they are all quite similar and they all look like they have there own style. I wouldn't quite call it a gothic style but maybe along the same lines. I have also noticed that catrianan was wearing pink in some of her younger photos but since she has grown up, it looks like she would never wear pink but has moved on to stripes.

From what I can see from her room (or what I think is her room) is she likes to listen to music as there is a lot of c.d's on her shelfs. Also there is a lot of photos I think on her wall of her friends, which tells me that she is really close with them.

Overall I think Catriana is a very beautiful girl who has a very close bond with her family. She likes to socialise and looks like she is very outgoing and has a lot of close friends. I think her style is unique and her friends are all similar but in a different way. Catriana looks like a fun adventurous person who is also very confidant.

I then met up with catriana to discuss my findings with her and vice versa. It turns out that I was pretty spot on. Nearly all right expect I got a few things wrong, nothing drastic, it was just the wrong house in one of the pictres i commented on, I thought it was hers but it was her gran and grampas. Also There was a picture of her ex boyfriend that I thought was her boyfriend but I never looked at the photo close enough to see that it was a different guy from the other two pictures. They was no observations that I made that Catriana had never considered before.

When Catriana was telling me what she got from my photo's she was also pretty much right. There was nothing she said, or she got from the photos that was incorrect. She also hit the nail on the head when it came to my family, especially my little brother. There was actually things that she got from the photos that I never really considered when I was deciding what ones to give her.

I found this activity really interesting and I think its amazing what people can tell you about yourself, family, surroundings and up bringing from just a few old family photographs.