Photography

So I feel the need to share how I feel about photography and this advanced photo class. Until recently I haven't really appreciated photo that much but I think after learning from my mistakes and listening to what everyone else was learning it really grew on me. I have realized how to express yourself with an image. The key in inspiration and passion I think. You don't really have to have inspiration and passion for photography though; as long as you have some strong feeling about something, the lens tends to show it to you in the strangest and most unexpected way. I think the reason I started taking good pictures is because I have finally learned so much and I found inspiration in my life to do something good. Maybe it doesn't just take skill like I thought it did because I love Samwuel (the camera) but what I love the most is that in pictures I can remember how I felt in that moment and make it show it with editing it. I am so happy I can finally see the awesomeness in photography that Mrs.Underwood has been trying to show us for so long. I really love to find one thing that inspires me and take a million pictures of it and find the one that shows exactly what I wanted it to. Sometimes I feel like the lens can't see what I see but after so many pictures it really does find it. It's amazing. 

Stacked

So this picture isn't as super moving to me as the one with the hand but the reason why I chose to take a million of this image is because it was all by itself and obviously someone put some serious work into it and honestly my first thought when I saw it is that I wanted to kick it down but then once I got close I loved the loneliness. 

Rosie

I love this image so much. Rosie is so beautiful and you can tell in her face that she is just loving the peace at the moment and soaking up the sun. So beautiful. Also I really love the perspective because you don't really see it all the time and so that makes it super awesome.

Rocks

So I took like a million of these pictures and for some reason I fell in love with this one. I just really like the way his hand is trying so hard to keep like eight rocks standing at one point and i don't know there is some kind of feeling in it that didn't happen with the other photos. 

Doggies

I liked this image because of the dog shaking all of the water off of him and the other dogs having their cute little moment.

Riley

I really like this image because he has like a human feel to him. It was hard to get a good one because obviously puppies don't stay still long. 

Copper

I took this picture at the beach obviously and was experimenting with taking action photos. I just kept calling him over to see what he would do and this is what he did and I love it. 

Fake Beach

This was really funny because it baffles me that the city of 'Oceanside' was making a man made beach. I didn't know if I was going to like this image because just that fact frustrated me but it came out really cool and kind of contradicts itself in a good way I suppose

Forgettable

Alright, so this image confuses me. Sometimes I like it and sometimes I don't. I think it's cause I really love the scene but the hill in front of it did a lot for me in person but I'm not sure if it's gnarly in the image. Forgettable. 

Stairs

So this image doesn't WOW me as much as it did when I took them. One of my friends said it was worthy though, so I decided that I may be being too hard on it because I got use to it already. I liked this image a lot because of the shadows I think. I always get frustrated when shadows aren't the way I like them, but these I liked. Maybe this image doesn't really satisfy me because of the angle. I don't know though. I took a bunch and I decided this was the best. 

Men

I took this image on a day where a lot of people were around the pier. The day before this I went to a festival at the pier and there were street performers and everything and I was upset I didn't have this camera. I was also nervous to take images of random people because I was in a place that I wasn't familiar with and I didn't know what their reaction would be. These men looked harmless though and I really liked the guy's tye dye shirt. They didn't seem to know eachother so that also made me curious. 

Street

As I was leaving the pier I saw this sign, and there wasn't any like it back home so I thought it was cool , well gnarly because I was in Cali. So I wondered how I could make it an eye catching image and as I played with prospective, the palm trees and everything made this image the obvious one to choose. The sky was going a really cool...gnarly thing that was like it was just really cloudy but the sun was coming back. 

Pier

So this point of the pier really caught my eye because since I live in Gloucester, on the coast, with tons of beaches and a boulevard around me, taking pictures of the ocean gets kind of repetitive and hard to make interesting. So I appreciated that the scenes going on around the ocean are just as entertaining, and of course the leading lines wouldn't be ignored. Now that I look at it though, it would be a cool image with a bunch of people walking on it too, it would speak different though. 

Bike

This scene caught my eye as soon as I saw the bike, but the hard thing was to find where I liked the angles and stuff. I was crossing the road when I fist saw it and i knew i wanted to get closer and then when i captured this image it was obvious that it was the best angle. the palm trees in the background make it more interesting but not overwhelming which i really appreciated. the guy was actually walking toward his bike to get on it i assume and i was lucky to get this image. 

Beach Go-ers

I really liked this point of view. I was on a pier type of thing and people were swimming below me and I could see really far both ways. People were under umbrellas and they looked like it was just a normal beach day for them but it was awesome and different to me that they were swimming in April. I really appreciated how the line of palm trees make leading lines for me. I always like when nature does it. It's like it was meant to be photographed.

Waves

This scene really effected me because the waves and the palm trees got this beautiful reaction to the strong winds that day that made it not your typical beachy picture. I kept wondering if all the other non-tourists there lost appreciation for it; I hope I never do. 

Soccer

So this picture is awesome because I have finally learned the art of creeping on people legally with the inner artist of me. 

Bench

Like the lion, the bench interested me because of the shape it is in. I thought about what has been on that bench, positive and negative. Maybe a homeless soul sleeps at it at night, but who is to say that by day it wasn't a spot of magic for a new couple.

Sign

This sign was really cool, it talked about a president who once lived on the land there and that thats why they made it as beautiful as they could and it should have been massachusetts capital. The spot to me did feel like it should be the capital. It took my breathe and words away, and while I was there, I felt not inspired but now that I look at the pictures it's obvious that I was feeling something

Family

The family in this caption was arguing about leaving, of course the kids just wanted to stay but mom probably had a growing list of things she had to do that day. Just imagine being naive enough to not realize that, and to be the boy in the plaid that just wanted to be with his best friend and play and 'ride the lion'