Jessica Martin Annotated Bibliography December 4, 2009

(As I catch up on my RJ’s, I plan to add to my annotated bibliography with

relevant entries.)
Annotated Bibliography

1. Artifacts
a. Martin, Jessica, Digital Camera. Fujifilm S2000-HD.
• Because my project is photography based, my camera was
pretty important. I was able to use this on a lot of my field
observations and also used my camera to compare my
images with hobbyist interviewee B.J. Bumgarner. My
camera is what I use to utilize the literacy of photography,
making it a pretty important artifact in my project.
b. Bumgarner, B.J., Digital Camera. Olympus E-Volt E500 DSLR.
• This was also an important artifact to obtain, because he
was a huge part of my project. He gave the hobbyist’s
view on photography, but he also helped me tie in the
literacy of photography, because he was, as Deborah
Brandt would put it, my ‘sponsor of literacy.’ He was the
whole reason I ever started playing with photography, and
encouraged me and taught me as I continued to further my
interest.
c. Bumgarner, B.J., Images, www.flickr.com/photos/homer4k
• This website is a collection of B.J.’s images, starting near
the beginning, when he started taking pictures. I felt that
this was important because you could really see how his
pictures developed over time.
d. Rainsberger, Rebecca. Images.
• These images are a collection displaying not only the type
of photographer that Rebecca is going to be, but also
displaying how there are different types of photographers,
simply because Rebecca is going to be an editorial
photographer, rather than just a personal photographer. It
was really interesting to look into a different side of
photography that I had never really experienced before,
and that’s `
e. Hutchison, Marion. Images.
• These images are a collection of nature, portrait, and just
lifestyle images that are taken in her personal life. I found
these really important, simply because you can really see
the composition put into it, and it was really cool to view
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photographs from the eye of a professional photographer

and see what kind of beauty they are able to capture in a
camera.

f. Martin, Jessica. Codebook for Research Portfolio.

• My codebook is important to my project because it really
produces the themes that I have seen either repeated or
becoming an anomaly in this project. It brings out the
important themes illustrated throughout my project and
points them out to a reader from the outside of the project.
g. Martin, Jessica. Images.
• This is a collection of images I have taken, not only in my
field research, but also just throughout my life. Some of
my favorites. Trips with B.J., my family, different events
occurring in my hometown, and just random portraits of
friends. I love my images, because I feel that I have a very
diverse field of photography. I love taking macro pictures
(really close-up photos), black and white, sepia, landscape,
portrait, etc. You name it, I love it. If I can capture it with a
camera, I’m all over it. I feel that my ‘portfolio’ of images
really shows that off.
h. Adams, Ansel. Image Gallery. http://www.anseladams.com/
• I felt that this was a very important website to annotate,
because my professional, Marion Hutchison, speaks of him
a lot in her interview and talks about how much she looked
up to him as a photographer. She speaks of how he brings
such beauty to pictures. After looking at a website of his
photos, I was truly blown away. I’d always heard great
things about him as a photographer, but looking at his
images was breath-taking.
i. Martin, Jessica. Permissions from Interviewees.
• These are really important, because without your
permissions, your audio interviews are useless, because
you don’t have the permission to release your research
information and the words of your interviewees to the
public, pretty much destroying your research.

2. Research Journals
a. Martin, Jessica. Research Journals. www.jessicamartin09.com
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• This is a collection of my research journals that I have been

writing as I have conducted my research and work my way
through my English 102 Honors class. Some of them are
from my readings in the class, some are field notes from
certain events, and some are field notes from my research.
b. Martin, Jessica. Research Journal 10.
http://www.jessicamartin09.com/?p=95
• I felt that this journal was pretty important for outside
readers looking at my project, because the last half of it
basically breaks down how I did my project, what I did to
go about collecting data, and why I did it.
c. Martin, Jessica. Research Journal 1.
http://www.jessicamartin09.com/?p=59
• I felt that my very first Research Journal was important for
my project, because I really stress in my project the line of
literary sponsors that is included in my project. My
professional photographer that I interviewed was the
sponsor for the hobbyist photographer that I interviewed,
and the hobbyist was my sponsor of photographic literacy.
Research Journal 1 basically explains Deborah Brandt’s
writings, going into detail about literacy sponsors. This
project also helped me realize that I have a lot more
sponsors than just basic literacy; writing, reading and
technology.
d. Martin, Jessica. Research Journal 20.
http://www.jessicamartin09.com/?p=139
• The most important part of this journal is the last part; the
one page analysis. The journal stresses how I have used
myself as a subject in this project, because I myself am a
photographer and really see the literacy in photography.

3. Writing Assignments
a. Martin, Jessica. Writing Assignment One, The Desire to Learn.
September 9th, 2009.
• My very first writing assignment in English 102 Honors
really delves into my sponsors of literacy and my ‘desire to
learn.’ In this paper, I really dug in deep to two of my most
influential sponsors of literacy; my mother and one of my
elementary teachers who also taught me in high school. I
felt that this assignment was important to cover because it
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shows a little bit of me, the researcher’s, background. It

shows where my influences have come from, what I’ve
learned in life, and the kind of person I perceive myself as.
b. Martin, Jessica. Writing Assignment Three, The World Through
the Eyes of a Photographer. October 20th, 2009.
• This writing assignment is essential to my final research,
because this was my research proposal. This was one of
my more difficult writings because I couldn’t quite pinpoint
a research question. Being a commuter, it was going to be
difficult to base my project solely in Commerce, so the
night before I had to completely change my question and
basically start all over again. But in doing so, I pinpointed
a whole new type of literacy, by looking at photography in
a whole new perspective and realizing that the way a
photographer views the world through composition, color,
and imaging, is a whole literacy in itself. It pinpointed my
question.
c. Martin, Jessica. Writing Assignment, Through the Eyes of a
Photographer, My Influence. November 24th, 2009.
• This assignment wasn’t necessarily a writing assignment,
but a video assignment. It dug deeper into one of my
interviewees, my hobbyist, B.J. Bumgarner. I feel that this
was an important project in itself because 1) you get to see
deeper into the mind of my hobbyist photographer, and 2)
you get to learn more about my literary sponsor of
photography. He’s taught me most everything I know in
photography, and with the right equipment, I feel that I can
be as good as, if not greater than, he is. He’s an amazing
photographer, and I feel that he’s sculpted me into a
wonderful photographer as well, and I’m so excited to be
putting his work on display through my project.

4. Field Notes
a. Martin, Jessica, and Bumgarner, B.J. November 9th, 2009.
• This was a really fun set of field notes to do. During this
set, B.J. and I did a really simple photo ‘shoot,’ to show how
you can take really simple things and make them really
beautiful pictures. So we used my backyard. Pretty plain,
nothing really special, but once everything was all said and
done, we really had some gorgeous photos. A few times
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we really tested the creative eye by taking a small subject,

such as a flower or even a garden hose, and taking a
picture of it as best as we saw fit, and then compared
photos. It was really interesting to see the different
perspectives we gave.
b. Martin, Jessica, and Bumgarner, B.J. November 26th, 2009.
• This set was a real learning experience for me. On
Thanksgiving, his family and my family were helping out at
a local school, feeding community members in need, and
decided that we would do a quick little walk-around the
school and see if we could get some good shots in. I got to
play around with B.J.’s camera (which is a wonderful 900
dollar camera!) and really learn more about manual
settings on a camera, which ended up having some
absolutely gorgeous turnouts.
c. Martin, Jessica. Christmas Portraits with the Daniels. November
28th, 2009.
• This has really been a turning point in my ‘career’ as a
photographer, because this was my first paid shoot that
I’ve ever done. I was so thrilled. I did some Christmas
portraits Karen and Johnathan and their little girl Lorelei,
who is roughly 18 months old. I don’t do a whole lot of
portraits, but the ones I do I enjoy, because I mainly take
pictures for close friends and family members. Lorelei is
just the biggest bundle of joy you will ever meet in your life
and was such a thrill to photograph. She was the first
toddler I have ever photographed, which was not only a
challenge but a wonderful experience.
d. Martin, Jessica. Shooting Commerce. November 30th, 2009.
• Upon arriving back from Thanksgiving break, I realized that
fall was truly upon us. The colors of the leaves had
changed, everything seemed a little dimmer, it was for
sure colder, and it just screamed to be photographed. So
that’s what I did. I first walked around campus, just
photographing a few things that caught my eye, and then I
went downtown and took pictures of some of the things
there, and was really happy with the images I got. It was
one of the first photography shoots I’ve ever done on my
own, and was interesting to do.
e. Martin, Jessica. My New Guitar. October 30th, 2009.
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• Here recently I bought a guitar from a friend of mine, an

acoustic Epiphone, and decided that for one of my field
observations, I want to focus just on my guitar, capture all
the little insignificant, yet beautiful details of it. So that’s
what I did. I first used a really simple background, the
sheet on my bed, and just captured the essence of the
guitar. I wanted to capture how some things that seem so
small and really unnoticeable can truly be a beautiful
picture. Your whole perspective changes, and you really
begin to notice the really minute details of the world and
see them as beautiful rather than insignificant.
f. Martin, Jessica. My Backyard. November 29th, 2009.
• After my first experience with B.J. and our backyard shoot,
I decided to do a little backyard shooting of my own, to see
what I could find. I’d never really realized how interesting
my backyard was until I really started looking at it from
such a different view. My mom has a few decorative
things out in our yard, which was fun to take pictures of.
My favorite part, which I wasn’t able to capture well
because of the lighting, was our woodpile in the back
corner. The reason I found it so intriguing was because
between the logs, you could see through them into the part
behind them, which was really cool.

5. Audio Interviews
a. Martin, Jessica. Audio Interview with B.J. Bumgarner. My
Kitchen. November 9th, 2009.
• It was really cool doing this interview with B.J., because I
really got to know him on a more intellectually creative
level. B.J. and I have been friends for as long as I can
remember, and we’re both just a bunch of goofballs, so we
never have any just down to earth conversations about the
‘literacy of photography.’ We’ve usually got our cameras
pressed to our faces, and then we’re ‘oohing and ahhing’
about how great they came out, or making sour faces
because they came out badly. So to sit down with him,
and just really dive in deep was a real treat for me.
b. Martin, Jessica. Audio Interview with Rebecca Rainsberger. Her
Kitchen. November 22nd, 2009.
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• This interview was a little nerve-racking for me. I had

never met Rebecca before, had contacted her through the
Honors College, and was planning to interview her. I didn’t
know what to think, I didn’t know what she would think of
me, and I have always had this fear of meeting new people
for the first. But she really made me feel at home, and the
interview went quite well. We talked about editorial
photography, which is what she’s wanting to do and is
something I haven’t done much of, and it was really
interesting to explore the mind of someone that you hardly
know. You barely know their name and yet, here you are,
picking their brain for good, intelligent things. She was a
great interviewee, I couldn’t have asked for a better
person. She has a passion for photography and I’m sure
that she is going to do great things in the field.
c. Martin, Jessica. Audio Interview with Marion Hutchison. My
Kitchen. November 28th, 2009.
• I have known Marion since I was roughly four years old,
and she is practically a second mother to me. I grew up
around her, my parents and she are best friends (My father
refers to her as his ‘Texas sister.’), and she’s just overall an
amazing person. For quite some time, in the nineties and
early two-thousands, she and her now ex-husband, Max
Killingsworth, did professional photography. I found this
interview really interesting because Marion has not only
been to some really interesting places to take pictures, but
she also did professional photography in a different time,
during the time of film rather than digital. So to hear about
her experiences in the dark room, and the suspense of
finding out whether you captured the shot or not, was a
true delight.
d. Martin, Jessica. Audio Interview with Myself. My Bedroom.
November 29th, 2009.
• It was a really cool thing to use myself as a subject,
because photography has always been a thing of passion
for me. I always wanted some sort of artistic creative
outlet to release all of my creativity into, and when I first
picked up a camera, back in fifth grade, I knew that it felt
right, what I was doing. This project has really explored
my mind and really made me think about photography as a
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whole, what it does, and it’s become an even more

beautiful art to me than before.