About Me

Reflect/write about the following questions:

  • Your name is…. Andrew St. John
  • Where were you born? Fort Collins Colorado
  • How many brothers and sisters do you have? One younger brother
  • What language do you speak at home? English
  • What are your career goals? Make enough money to retire early and have fun and travel for the rest of my life.
  • What do you see yourself doing in five years? Being in my senior year of college, I plan to take a gap year.
  • Who do you know, other than a teacher, who has gone to college for art? My cousin Ashley went to Mecca for art.
  • What are you are most proud of? I'm a mess, so surviving 18 years.
  • What do you enjoy doing in your free time? Reading, playing lacrosse, playing video games.
  • Why did you enroll in this course? I need an art credit to graduate and taking pictures is fun.
  • Who are the photographers that you are most interested in right now? Ansel Adams, I love his film photographs
  • Your ideal job would be… Cameraman for planet earth documentaries.
  • Three adjectives others might use to describe you are… Friendly, laid back, creative


I am drawn to this work simply because of the sheer complexity and detail put into the artwork. I'm not a particularly religious person, but these paintings, and the artwork as a whole, The variety and complexity is astounding and it is remarkably beautiful. Michelangelo spent years on this standing on a wooden platform suspended from the ceiling, and you can see just how much work went in to it.

Sistine Chaple-Michelangelo, 1512, 133' X 40' 1512

What draws me to this image is probably the lighting of this shot, you have the darkness and shadow on the right, and it steadily gets lighter until you have the sunlight playing across the water and mist above it. Personally this is one of my favorite images just because of how much I like landscapes shots over most anything else.

Tim Long, Boundary Waters. 2017

What draws me to this image is a combination of it being a film photograph, as well as how beautiful it is. I love nature, and think National Parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite. I think that formations like the Half Dome are absolutely amazing, and they way Ansel Adams frames it between the trees on the river banks is amazing, not to mention the incredibly full range of value present in the image, it may be in black and white, but everything is incredibly sharp and distinct.

Half Dome, Merced River, Winter- Ansel Adams, 10" X 8"

Starry Night-Vincent van Gough, 73.7 cm × 92.1 cm 1889

What draws me to this work is an appreciation for the art style, with the wavy brush strokes leading to a kind of fluid looking world. I'll be the first to admit that I don't know a whole lot about art in general but most specifically painting and drawing are my weak spots, however with this image I can see that whether it was drawn, painted, or photographed, this scene is beautifully composed using informal balance with dark on one side and light on the other.

So this image isn't exactly some famous photograph from history, but what draws me to it is both the emotions present on the faces of the people present, specifically Tom Brady, a 39 year old quarterback who just won his 5th Super Bowl, and appeared in his 7th. He brought his team back from a 28-3 deficit partway into the third quarter, which should have been impossible but he did it, and this photograph reminds me of that, and that nothing is truly impossible.


Tom Brady Super Bowl 51-Al Bello/Getty Images. 2017