For the photo essay project, I photographed the Alterra at the Lake coffee shop, located on Lincoln Memorial Drive across from the marina. In my proposal, I planned to visit numerous coffee shops, but I decided Alterra had a lot more action so I took pictures on a few different occasions there. Unlike I expected, there was little calmness and relaxing to be captured in the photographs, but rather chaos and activity. It was actually hard at some points to get a shot that didn’t have someone’s arm or body blurred because people were constantly in motion. In nearly all of these photographs, someone is always doing something. I think the coffee shop has become more of a gathering place for many, as my photographs prove, while I was thinking of it more as a rejuvenation place. I was motivated to use Alterra as the subject of my photo essay because I often go to coffee shops, Alterra most often, but never really sit and observe and enjoy myself. I believe I captured the patrons of the coffee shop within the process of entering, waiting in line, ordering, waiting for coffee, finding a place to sit, and observing the surroundings. In doing that, I kept in mind what was going on while I was taking my photographs so I would have interesting information to use as captions.
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