The Old Mill

So for christmas I got a new camera. I was very anxious to get started with shooting and just seeing how it would work for me. Let me tell you I loved the results. It was absolutely magnificent. My first spot with the first shoot with the new camera was the old mill here in little rock arkansas. The spot is surprisingly beautiful and definitely a hidden treasure. These are the shots. Let me know how to think.

Thanks to give

This picture means more to me than any other picture I have taken this semester. It is of my grandparents living room. A room that I have grown up in. This picture is not of a lot of things that makes sense. If you notice, most of the furniture does not match, the TV is sitting on a table that is five times if not more than its own age. It is beautiful for it represents what my grandparents believe. They believe that something is always useful, that nothing is ever completely lost in this world. They believe that people are still just as meaningful and important today as they were two thousand years ago. They have not much money being missionaries, so they use the same furniture they have collected over the years. I grew up a lot in this house. This visit was the first time in about two years that I was able to return to it, largely due to family happenings. This room is beautiful to me though, because of the love it represents to me, love that does not give up. 

Iconic presentation

This is the photographer and artist's, Edward Steichen, most famous photograph. It is one of the first photographs to use color strategies. It is a great photograph not only because of its pioneering in the color world but also because of the artistic strategy used by Steichen to create it. 

Chicago Pic.

A few weeks ago I took a trip to chicago with some friends of mine. While there of course I brought my camera. I had several good pictures but this is one that I just thought I had to share. Look at the symmetry in this picture and notice the lines especially. Please let me know what you think.

Macro

For this assignment, I was given maybe one of my hardest challenges yet. Here are my shots.

Here is my first shot. I am not going to tell what it is because I want people to figure it out for themselves. It is not very hard to figure out. It is very beautiful I think. It reminded me very much of a crystal castle reaching up into the sky. 

I love this shot as well. I could not decided afterwords whether the water was going down or going up. Water is just something so magical to me, and it has clearly given away it beauty in this shot. That kind of beauty is what I was looking for when I set out to take this shot.

Breaking The Rules

For this assignment I was asked to post a picture breaking the rules of photography. Here is my shot.

I like this shot for a number of reasons. I realize that this is a gamble posting this as many of the people who see this will not see it the way I do, but I was to entranced with the picture to not put it up. If one clicks on the image, they will notice the only thing that is clear are the lights. I wanted that. The lights almost seem like people to me. The thing that makes cities beautiful at night is not the buildings themselves, but the light which they give. Without the light their beauty would be nothing. Thus, light is the essence of beauty, for without it beauty would not exist. In this picture I have captured the most beautiful thing, the light. 

Portraits

For this assignment my teacher asked me to take photographs in the style of portrait. My subject is one of my friends, named Clay. I love the shots I got. Here they are.

This is my shot, or at least the shot for this assignment. I love this shot because I think it represents a portrait the most. I think that it is the most representative of a portrait then most of my other shots. I really like this shot because it catches him in true human action. Most portraits that are taken are of humans in a faked actions and emotions. I believe I have caught clay in this instance in his real actions and emotions. Something I have ever rarely done. 

The rest of my shots are from this same assignment. I just really like a ton of them. I hope you like them as well. Please let me know what you think.