在第二堂課之前，你必須選擇一個地點，作為三項攝影作業和期末影像論文的主題。你所選擇的地點可以是波士頓地區的任何地方，一個整學期下來可以不斷拜訪並吸引你的地方。你也可以選擇你的工作室，或者你在其他課程裡研究的地方。地點的大小須有限制（整個Roxbury地區太大了）。劃定地點範圍大小時，思考一下劃定原則，這也許會是解讀地點特性的關鍵，或者至少解?是你要著重表現之特質的關鍵。
By session #2, you must choose a site that will be the subject of three photographic assignments and a final essay of images and words. Your site can be anywhere within the Boston region. It should be a place you can visit regularly throughout the semester, a place that intrigues you. It can be your studio site or a place you are studying for another course. Limit the size of the site (all of Roxbury is too big). Thinking about the rationale for bounding the site may be key to deciphering its identity or at least those attributes that you want to focus on.

所有的作業繳交期限、日期於以下說明。遲交作業將扣分。由於作業與作業之間是相輔相成的，而且是課堂討論的基礎，因此維持一定的作業進度是重要的。若無預先取得書面同意，不予延期。
All assignments are due at times and dates indicated below. Late projects will receive a reduction in grade. It is very important to keep up with the assignments, for they build on one another and form a basis for class discussion. There will be no extensions without prior, written, consent.

地點選擇
Site Selection

於第二堂課繳交。請描述地點所在，地點為什麼有趣？為什麼吸引你？該地點引發出什麼樣的疑問？又你希望如何以攝影方式去探討該地點的哪一方面之特質？
Due by session #2. Please describe where it is and why it is interesting, why you are drawn to it. What questions does the place raise, what aspects of it do you hope to explore photographically?

作業一：燈光
Assignment 1: Light

於第四堂課繳交。
Due in class, session #4.

拍攝你的地點時，加入燈光因素考量。尤其是那些對於你的地點而言是特殊的燈光因素，以及對某日、某時、天氣和季節來說，也有特殊影響的燈光因素。選擇在不同的時刻、不同的日期拍攝照片。
Photograph your site with respect to qualities of light, especially aspects of light that are particular to your site, as well as to time of day, weather, and season. Take photographs at different times of day on different days.

好好規劃時間，以免你無法及時在上課前沖洗好幻燈片並攜帶至課堂。請使用能夠隔夜即沖洗完畢的彩色幻燈片，如柯達Ektachrom或是富士牌。你也可以使用數位像機。
Plan your time so that you have a roll of slide film developed in time for class. Use color slide film that can be processed overnight, such as Kodak Ektachrome or Fuji. You may also use a digital camera.

選出並攜帶六張照片以提供課堂投影與討論。請務必提早到，好在上課前將你的照片下載至電腦，或者將你的幻燈片放入投影機。如果無法早到，務必請其他人於課堂前，代將圖片上傳。
Select 6 images for projection and discussion during class and bring them with you. Please come a few minutes early in order to load your images on the computer or put your slides in the carousel before class. If you cannot come early, make arrangements for someone else to load your images before class.

開始設立你的網站。為這一項以及接下來的「重要細節」和「詩意」的作業，劃出獨立區塊。並考量放入你的日誌裡的文字。
Begin to develop your website. Create separate sections for this and subsequent assignments on Significant Detail and Poetics. Consider including passages from your journals.

作業二：重大細節
Assignment 2: Significant Detail

於第八堂課繳交
Due in class, session #8.

有力且顯著的細節表示了： 流走在多岩荒蕪礦脈上的黑色光影，勾勒出久旱甘霖後留下的臨時瀑布群，並指向一座難民營。森林裡一間修道院大門口的石頭，在千百次的觸摸下而磨亮，同時顯示出敬重。偉大的藝術家善於生動地描述細節。漢斯．霍爾班（Hans Holbein）的一張神射手素描主要顯現出他的臉，一隻眼睛緊閉，另一隻眼順著十字弓瞄準。那隻瞇起來瞄準的眼睛是整幅畫裡筆觸最重、描繪最仔細的地方。其餘的部分則是輕描淡寫的帶過，有如失焦一般。好的攝影師也是細心的觀察者。他們懂得選擇取什麼景、如何且該將什麼放進最焦點處，來突顯重大細節。桃樂絲．蘭格（Dorothea Lange）持續將她在某處隨筆寫下的重大細節，紀錄在日誌上：一座鄉間教堂院子的公畝數、院子裡的水木掃帚拂過光禿的土地、教區居民自家做的手套（見於《美國鄉村女性》）。細節揭露了重要的事?，?是和地景的科學研究相關、和建築、和詩意相關的思想。不論是在醫藥方面或是地景方面，物理診斷都是將重大細項從不相關的細節中篩選出來的一種藝術。
Telling details signify: black streaks streaming down a rocky, desert outcrop trace ephemeral waterfalls from rare rains, point to a refuge; a stone at the gateway to a forest sanctuary, polished by thousands of touches, reveals reverence. Great artists use detail tellingly. Hans Holbein's sketch of a marksman shows mainly his face, the one eye closed, the other sighting down the crossbow. The squinting, sighting eye is the darkest, most detailed part of the drawing; the rest is drawn lightly, roughly, as if out of focus. Good photographers are close observers; they choose what to frame, how, and what to place in sharpest focus in order to highlight significant detail. Dorothea Lange kept journals where she jotted the telling details she recorded in photographs: a country churchyard's acre, its bare soil swept with dogwood brooms, the parishioner's hand-made gloves (The American Country Woman). Details reveal important truths, an idea as relevant to the scientific study of landscape, to architecture and poetry, as it is to photography. Physical diagnosis, in medicine, in landscape, is the art of culling the significant from a welter of irrelevant detail.

拍下所選地方的重要細節，這些細節提供選擇地點特性的線索，而且能具體顯現或是牽引出更多故事的細節。
Photograph significant details of your site, details that are clues to your site's particular character and that embody or refer to larger stories.

挑選出六張幻燈片並攜帶至課堂，供課堂投影以及討論。請務必提早幾分鐘到，好在上課前將你的照片上傳至電腦，或者將你的幻燈片放入投影機。
Select 6 slides for projection and discussion during class and bring them with you to class. Please come a few minutes early in order to load your images on the computer or put your slides in the carousel before class.

作業三：詩意
Assignment 3: Poetics

於第十一堂課繳交
Due in class, session #11.

地景是寓意深長且表情豐富的。地景可以是詩意的、華麗誇張的、爭議的，同時也可以是務實的。地景寓意非常複雜且模稜兩可，帶有多層意義，永遠不會是簡單或線性的。河川的流動的同時可能提供、創造或毀滅一條路徑以及界線，甚至出入通道。火在毀損、改變的同時也重新創造。一個圓是階級的，因為它有一個中心，然而也是非階級的，因為在圓周上的任何一點到圓心的距離都相等。多重意涵就是隱喻也是其他譬喻的來源。隱喻和諷刺能夠同時並列兩種意涵：和諧、對比或衝突。修辭比喻很少從地景中被獨立出來；不論是被合併、重疊或是並列，修辭比喻皆能夠產生呼應、即時映照的效果，並賦予意涵。
Landscape is meaningful and expressive; it can be poetic, rhetorical, polemical, as well as pragmatic. Landscape meaning is complex, layered, ambiguous, never simple or linear. A river flows, provides, creates, destroys, simultaneously a path and a boundary, even a gateway. Fire consumes, transforms, and renews. A circle is hierarchical--it has a center--yet non-hierarchical--all points along the circumference are equidistant from the center. Multiple meanings are the source of metaphor and other tropes, as well. Metaphor and irony juxtapose meanings: harmonious, contrasting, or conflicting. Figures of speech are rarely isolated in landscape; combined, overlapped, juxtaposed, they introduce correspondences, prompt reflection, invite investment of meaning.

重新走訪你的選擇地點，並從課堂讀物所提供的觀點，細思該地點之"地景詩意"。以修辭表現的方式 - 你自己的表現方式和那些居住在或者使用該地點的人們含蓄固有的表現方式 - 來拍攝你的地點。從這個主題，在去重新審視你已經拍好的幻燈片。這是期末專題前的最後一項作業，你所撰寫的影像論文必須能夠表達出你所選擇地點的特質，能夠詮釋該地點的性格且述說其故事。開始決定你所想要說的故事，並且善加利用此次作業來提升你的思想。
Revisit and reflect on your site in light of the readings for the class on "Landscape Poetics." Photograph your site from the perspective of rhetorical expression, both your own and the implied and implicit expression of those who live in or use the site. Review the slides you have already taken in light of this topic. This is the last assignment before the final project, the essay of images and words you will create to express the particular qualities of your site, to interpret its character, to tell its story(ies). Begin to identify the stories you want to tell and use this assignment to advance your thinking.

挑選出六張幻燈片並攜帶至課堂，供課堂投影以及討論。為每一張幻燈片命名。將圖片按照順序編排，讓所有的獨立圖像構成對話。請務必提早幾分鐘到，好在上課前將登入你的網站，或者將你的幻燈片放入投影機。
Select 6 images for projection and discussion during class and bring them with you. Give each image a title. Put them in a sequence that makes that brings the individual images into dialogue. Please come a few minutes early in order to load your website or put your slides in the carousel before class.

持續更新你的網站，各別為燈光作業、重大細節作業、和詩意作業創造獨立的區塊（即使同一張圖片可能出現在兩個不同的分類下）。你也許會想引述日誌裡的段落。
Continue to develop your website, with separate sections for the assignment on Light, Significant Detail, and Poetics (though some images may serve in both categories). You may wish to include passages from your journals.

期末作業：論文
Final Assignment: Essay

論文的拍攝記事草稿於第十二堂課的學生個別面談時繳交。地景敘事草稿於第十三堂課課堂繳交。第十四堂課學生個別面談前，網路影像論文草稿應上傳完畢，以方便面談時討論。最終影像論文於第十五堂前上傳完畢。
Storyboard draft of essay due at conferences with individual students, session #12. Narrative sketch problem due in class, session #13. Draft of website essay due online for conferences with individual students, session #14. Final Photo Essay due online, session #15.