Dear Erika,
I want to Thank You for teaching our class about photography. It means alot to us to have someone from so far away to want to teach us something new. I liked the close up pictures of the flowers, it looked so naturally pretty!!! Once again Thank You Erika

dear Ericka,
thanks for showing us that video. i like the beach to

Dear Erika,
Thank you for being our mentor.I thought that the picture when you looked like you were holding the sun was a good picture. how did you take that picture? Another picture that is awsome is the flowers.i hope after these lessons i will be very good at taking pictures.i heard that you were sick, well i hope that you feel better so you can have fun with us. Thank You Very much.

thank you for taking time out of your life to be teaching us.My most liked was the rocks and the can that was taking the color from the rocks. I hope I could use the light to make my pictures look a lot better looking.

Dear Erika,
Thank you for teaching us photography. We all hope you get better soon.
I think that shutter speed on the camera takes really good pictures and my first favorite was the fireworks one because it has a lot of different colors and it looks cool because you captured it as it was falling out of the sky. my second favorite is the xibalba-2. How did you take that picture? what is behind the tree?

Dear Erika,
I would like to you for teaching us photography. I hope we can learn how to take better pictures and have lots of fun a long the way.
also i really like the pictures of the clouds and of the flowers. thank you for everything

Dear Erika,
I hank you for teaching our 8th grade classroom about photography. The music in your video was very cool, an I liked the photo of the dark cloud. I hope we learn a lot, thank you Erika

Thank you for teaching us how to take better photo's also you have some cool photo and drawings in your video like the one's of the sky.

Laira13 - All you have to do is point your camera directly into the sun then wait for the camera to adjust to the light. All you have to do now is close your fingers in front of the camera to create the illusion that you are holding the sun. I love taking pictures like that, your hand becomes a silhouette and the photo feels powerful as if you have superhuman abilities. It's fun!
Arian13 - "Xibalba" is actually a globe lantern I made out of bamboo sticks and tissue paper. The outside is covered with white tissue paper and the black tissue paper is glued on the inside, there is also a small light on the inside to make the black tissue paper tree stand-out. The photo is just taken against a white background so that the art is the focus of the picture. That's one trick when taking photos of art work: always make sure to have a blank background, because you don't want other objects detracting away from your beautiful artwork!
West13 - The music from the video is by three of my favourite artists: Albert Hammond Jr.(who was part of a band called The Strokes), Feist (who is a Canadian female singer), and Malajube (which is French-Canadian band).
Thank you everyone else for your messages. I am starting to feel a little better, but am sadly still a little sick. I am glad you are all getting excited because I am thrilled!