Lamkin ES Club Photo

Lamkin ES Club Photo gathers to wrap up 12 weeks of active learning in the art of photography.

Lamkin ES Club Photo wrapped up 12 weeks of learning, analyzing and shooting photographs this past Thursday with a gallery walk. Parents, family members and staff were able to view two photos (one digital and one disposable) that each of the 24 fifth-grade students chose as their best photos.

Lamkin ES art teacher Pat Barry (middle) presents a certificate for Outstanding Overall Photo to fifth-grade student Balai Bepari.

In addition, multiple "best of" photos were shown and celebrated in categories involving framing, lines, editing, digital and disposable. Throughout the eleven weeks prior to this event, Lamkin ES art teacher Pat Barry and Lamkin ES fifth-grade reading teacher Butch Stephens taught students the six basics of good photography. 

Students and their parents participate in a gallery walk, viewing over a semester's worth of work.

To help students focus on these basics, students used disposable 35mm cameras and took a total of 13 pictures throughout the first six weeks. In addition to using disposable cameras, students submitted one digital picture to Flickr weekly to add to their collection. 

Lamkin ES ELAR teacher Butch Stephens views the Lamkin Club Photo photo gallery with his protégés. 

For the last four weeks of class, students dove into the art of editing photos and enhanced not only their digital, but their developed 35mm camera film that was taken earlier. Students not only learned from Pat Barry, who has taught art for dozens of years and Butch Stephens who is also a professional photographer/videographer, but also from CFISD lead photographer Gary Durrenburger.