Welcome to our visual blog for the BUPS/BIS 2009 8th grade Ephesus trip. These photographs, captions and "unphotographs" represent a joint venture in English and art class capturing the experience of the students' final middle school trip at BUPS/BIS. Many still remember and speak fondly of the games at Patalya in 6th grade and the adventures in Cappadocia last year in 7th. This year's experience held the same kind of wonder and memories, all the more poignant since in just a little time they will graduate from the 8th grade. The students have chosen their best landscape, portrait and detail photograph, writing a concise and descriptive caption for one. Using Michael David Murphy's "Unphotographable" as an inspiration, the students also wrought an image in words when its meaning went beyond the pixel.

Even though they will be in the same building next year and have many of the same teachers, high school is a different world. Every assignment and class trip of middle school has been constructed to help the students succeed in this new realm. But, as you will see from the photos of Ephesus and its surrounding areas and as the students realized, the past is never far away, and it's always the foundation for the future.

Tuesday

Arielle Fearn


This is a picture of the sun setting on the beach in Ephesus at around 8PM from room 513 of our hotel. I chose this picture because I wanted to remember forever how beautiful the sunset was on this 09 April 2009. I thought it was amazing to look at, how the suns reflection on the water, the clouds kind of blend into the light, and you can see the different shades of light. From the left the sky has a darker tone of red and if you look at the same level, it fades off into the clouds. Another nice detail of this image is the 4 trees. The trees bring more life to the scene and pull your eyes to the right and then back to the left and make you realize that this was taken from a balcony window since there is a part of the hotel showing.


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