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Recently I have given two speeches in my comp class on animal abuse. I wanted to bring awareness on a topic that wasnt really well-known. Therefore, I picked wild horses. I went with an image of two wild mustangs playing to show the freedom and joy that they have in the wild. Then I brought in the text telling that wild mustangs are being rounded up every year and shoved into corrals like sardines. Then the land where they once roamed free is the new home for cattle to graze. The mustangs are kept in these pins and are marked or branded with a code number. Then huge auctions are held to auction them off. many of them are headed straight to death, because slaughter houses come and buy large quantities of horses to kill them for meat, glue, jello, and other common products.  Not many people know about what they suffer through, and that’s why I chose it as my topic; to bring awareness of what these poor creatures go through. While I enjoyed the project and creating it, at the same time it was heartbreaking.

SAP wild mustanges

Wow these projects keep getting better and better. Well my first two designs were not as successful as the final. One of my first designs was a diagram of a horse with close up pictures of interesting parts of  Maverick’s (my horse) body. Then my second design was the process of making a hemp anklet. The pictures I took for this one did not turn out so well. I had trouble with the lighting and trying to brighten the image. During my process of making the first design I had pictures of every part of a horses body, so I attempted to make a photo collage of a horse. Sadly I didn’t have enough pictures. But my instructor thought this would turn out really strong, I was so excited to work on this project. I went back home the next weekend and took about 180 pictures. I ended up using 177 pictures in the collage. It was a long, but… really, really fun process. I love it. Hope you can enjoy it as much as I have and will.

FINAL collage

FINAL postcard FB

Every time I worked on this assignment it was the highlight of my day. Working with an image of a horse and rider jumping, and trying to bring out detail was at times difficult and a fairly long process, but I enjoyed every minute. Trying to work with the font on the front and trying to find the right font to express the Equestrian Team and the history of the sport was rather challenging, but I think it came out better than what I started with. The back of the postcard needed an object that connected with the front of the postcard along with, if someone was to pick it up in the mail and see the back first they would immediately recognize it was about horseback riding. My first rough did not represent this well so that’s when I was given the idea to incorporate a riding helmet. I am very pleased with how the final postcard came out. Hope you enjoy it.